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Bureau Of Educational and Cultural Affairs

Opportunities linked
12

Records in this library attributed to this funder.

Recorded awards (total)
$988,500,465

Sum of the awards we hold for this funder. A floor on its giving, not a filing total.

Median recorded award
$925,000

The midpoint of the awards we hold, not a cap and not a filing median.

Data year
Not stated

The most recent fiscal year among the awards we hold, as the source wrote it.

Why there is no giving history here

Award listings from USASpending are not connected yet. What is missing here is a feed on our side, not a document this funder has failed to publish - the listings are public and we have not connected them.

Derived from awards

Computed from the 89 recipients we hold an award to. This is where money we can see went, which is not the same as a statement of what this funder sets out to fund — and the gap between the two is widest where our coverage is thinnest.

Programmes, by money awarded

  • 19.415$988,500,465433 awards

Where the recipients are

The recipient's own location, not where the work happens. A national body headquartered in Washington spends money everywhere.

  • DC $465,063,897
  • NC $24,862,470
  • CA $20,828,784
  • TN $10,687,102
  • IA $5,574,471
  • MT $4,901,156
  • MA $4,825,651
  • OR $4,280,176
  • OK $4,039,542
  • IL $2,950,983
  • MI $2,218,461
  • OH $1,923,837
  • IN $1,665,516
  • VA $1,241,135
  • HI $1,055,837
  • UT $668,320
  • MD $530,000
  • AR $375,000
  • NY $0

Award sizes

Fixed bands rather than this funder's own quantiles, so two funders can be compared. A per-funder split would make every distribution look the same shape.

  • 100k-500k 80
  • 25k-100k 14
  • 500k-2m 206
  • over-2m 123
  • under-25k 10

By fiscal year

A trend across the years we import, which is a bounded window. A year with no bar is a year outside it, not a year with no funding.

  • FY2013 $1,111,795 (1)
  • FY2014 $1,228,677 (1)
  • FY2015 $5,707,095 (4)
  • FY2016 $72,968,745 (27)
  • FY2017 $8,965,823 (9)
  • FY2018 $84,930,261 (44)
  • FY2019 $129,286,767 (50)
  • FY2020 $98,575,763 (37)
  • FY2021 $124,732,189 (48)
  • FY2022 $194,316,543 (75)
  • FY2023 $84,275,212 (43)
  • FY2024 $101,547,433 (47)
  • FY2025 $45,343,616 (27)
  • FY2026 $244,129 (1)

Giving history, from the awards we hold

No dated awards on file for this funder

This table takes one row per fiscal year, built from the awards we hold. We have connected none for this funder that state a year, so there is nothing to group. That is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that the funder gave nothing.

Who has received money from this funder

433 awards on file, largest first, ranging $0 to $20,570,000.

RecipientStateAmountFiscal year
LEGACY INTERNATIONALNot stated$1,080,0002023
ASSE INTERNATIONAL, INCNot stated$1,068,3462022
THE MAUREEN AND MIKE MANSFIELD FOUNDATIONNot stated$1,059,0052025
AIFS FOUNDATIONNot stated$1,057,9992016
LEGACY INTERNATIONALNot stated$1,051,4552018
AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: ACTR/ACCELS, INC.Not stated$1,050,0002025
INTERNATIONAL VISITORS CENTER OF CHICAGONot stated$1,050,0002022
WORLD LEARNING INC.Not stated$1,018,9082018
PROJECT HARMONY INCNot stated$1,000,0002025
WORLD LEARNING INC.Not stated$1,000,0002021
WORLD LEARNING INC.Not stated$1,000,0002023
WORLD LEARNING INC.Not stated$1,000,0002024
GREENHEART INTERNATIONALNot stated$995,0002025
WORLD LINK INC.Not stated$959,4432016
CULTURAL VISTAS, INC.Not stated$951,8932018
THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERSNot stated$926,0002018
WORLD LEARNING INC.Not stated$925,0002022
WORLD LEARNING INC.Not stated$925,0002023
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWANot stated$914,0002023
CULTURAL VISTAS, INC.Not stated$913,330Not stated
AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: ACTR/ACCELS, INC.Not stated$910,0002019
THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERSNot stated$893,1332020
THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERSNot stated$893,1332021
THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERSNot stated$893,1332022
THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERSNot stated$891,6232019
PROJECT HARMONY INCNot stated$880,0002024
AIFS FOUNDATIONNot stated$879,1592025
THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERSNot stated$867,1802023
AFS-USA, INCNot stated$861,8002024
THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERSNot stated$860,2192018
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWANot stated$860,0002021
ASSE INTERNATIONAL, INCNot stated$855,7202016
THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERSNot stated$848,4892024
AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: ACTR/ACCELS, INC.Not stated$848,0002019
INTERNATIONAL CITY/COUNTY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (THE)Not stated$838,0002019
LEGACY INTERNATIONALNot stated$834,5502018
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWANot stated$814,0002024
AIFS FOUNDATIONNot stated$812,2472019
AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: ACTR/ACCELS, INC.Not stated$800,0002018
INTERNATIONAL CITY/COUNTY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (THE)Not stated$800,0002018
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWANot stated$799,611Not stated
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INCNot stated$798,0002018
WOMEN WIN FOUNDATION INCNot stated$773,0882018
CULTURAL VISTAS, INC.Not stated$770,3652023
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANANot stated$763,4012018
AMERICAN CULTURAL EXCHANGE SERVICENot stated$761,7552025
THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERSNot stated$759,877Not stated
PROJECT HARMONY INCNot stated$758,6402018
GREAT LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIPNot stated$752,9612019
LEGACY INTERNATIONALNot stated$750,0002024
NORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTERNot stated$750,0002021
PURDUE UNIVERSITYNot stated$748,8272021
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWANot stated$740,0002020
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWANot stated$740,0002022
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYNot stated$735,2762016
THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERSNot stated$716,5842019
INTERNATIONAL CITY/COUNTY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (THE)Not stated$712,6262016
Recipient name withheldNot stated$708,6062015
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWANot stated$706,8602019
NORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTERNot stated$700,9342015
FOUND SOUND NATION INC.Not stated$700,0002024
FOUND SOUND NATION INC.Not stated$700,0002025
PROJECT HARMONY INCNot stated$700,0002020
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANANot stated$699,9992019
WORLD LEARNING INC.Not stated$699,9962019
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANANot stated$699,0942017
AMERICAN CULTURAL EXCHANGE SERVICENot stated$698,5832019
AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: ACTR/ACCELS, INC.Not stated$696,0002021
CULTURAL VISTAS, INC.Not stated$695,4532016
LEGACY INTERNATIONALNot stated$695,0002021
CULTURAL VISTAS, INC.Not stated$691,0002024
CULTURAL VISTAS, INC.Not stated$690,3652021
PROJECT HARMONY INCNot stated$686,4522017
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INCNot stated$681,000Not stated
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITYNot stated$676,7122021
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMANot stated$674,0002022
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMANot stated$674,0002023
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITYNot stated$672,9782016
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANANot stated$671,4422019
NATIONAL ABILITY CENTERNot stated$668,3202016
NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES-CHINA RELATIONS, INC.Not stated$650,0002021
AFS-USA, INCNot stated$649,6312017
AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: ACTR/ACCELS, INC.Not stated$641,0002022
NORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTERNot stated$638,7732018
CULTURAL VISTAS, INC.Not stated$635,3652022
LEGACY INTERNATIONALNot stated$626,4182019
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INCNot stated$619,2622021
UNIVERSITY OF MASS AT BOSTONNot stated$618,9282022
UNIVERSITY OF MASS AT BOSTONNot stated$618,9282024
AFS-USA, INCNot stated$612,8852018
AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: ACTR/ACCELS, INC.Not stated$610,0002024
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANANot stated$607,557Not stated
CENTER FOR CULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST, INC.Not stated$603,4412018
COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE, INCNot stated$601,5322025
AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: ACTR/ACCELS, INC.Not stated$600,0002019
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMANot stated$600,0002024
WORLD LEARNING INC.Not stated$600,0002020
WORLD LEARNING INC.Not stated$600,0002022
THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERSNot stated$593,9432025
Recipient name withheldNot stated$589,0332018

Source: USASpending.gov federal award records. Federal awards only. Last synced 2026-09-15.

What this funder funds

Derived from how this funder's 12 linked opportunities are classified, not from a funding strategy the funder published.

  • Other9
  • Libraries & Arts3

Currently open opportunities

Verified against each record's own source. The date on every row is the day we last checked that record — not the day this page was built.

What this funder’s awards look like

Counted over the award rows we hold for this funder. These are statistics over published records, not a model’s reading of them, and not a prediction.

Awards on file433
Distinct recipients90
Median award$925,000

Included with Studio

The counts and the median above stay free, because they are the evidence for everything else. Studio adds the breakdowns: which states the awards went to, what kind of organisation received them, and how the amounts are distributed.

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Where this came from

Source page
grants.gov
Retrieved
Oct 3, 2026
Data source
The funder's own published figures
Award listing
usaspending.gov

The portal page the recipient rows were read from.

Awards synced
2026-09-15

When the recipient rows were last confirmed against that listing.

The official page is authoritative. Agency and foundation pages change without notice, and the retrieval date above is the only claim we make about currency. Figures we have not connected are labelled as ours to connect, never as facts about the funder.

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