Institute of Museum and Library Services
- Opportunities linked
- 52
- Recorded awards (total)
- $488,137,034
- Median recorded award
- $88,008
Records in this library attributed to this funder.
Sum of the awards we hold for this funder. A floor on its giving, not a filing total.
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 1676 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
- 45.312$173,527,157854 awards
- 45.301$159,776,0581079 awards
- 45.313$71,145,517257 awards
- 45.311$28,955,735868 awards
- 45.309$28,143,678172 awards
- 45.308$17,830,971178 awards
- 45.032$4,499,65516 awards
- 45.033$4,258,26311 awards
Where the recipients are
The recipient's own location, not where the work happens. A national body headquartered in Washington spends money everywhere.
- NY $46,657,019
- CA $46,563,854
- IL $27,065,350
- PA $21,784,289
- DC $19,698,371
- VA $18,678,800
- OH $18,591,777
- WA $17,708,386
- MA $17,118,110
- TX $16,343,990
- MI $15,982,610
- OK $13,755,494
- FL $13,418,078
- AK $12,294,329
- NC $12,169,366
- MD $10,876,794
- WI $10,773,238
- AZ $9,342,001
- MO $8,290,787
- HI $8,179,121
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 1469
- 25k-100k 922
- 500k-2m 121
- over-2m 6
- under-25k 917
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.
- FY2016 $745,110 (1)
- FY2017 $5,415,181 (13)
- FY2018 $16,944,335 (58)
- FY2019 $32,520,222 (181)
- FY2020 $61,460,149 (381)
- FY2021 $68,181,342 (374)
- FY2022 $86,485,728 (902)
- FY2023 $80,083,065 (567)
- FY2024 $83,264,567 (567)
- FY2025 $6,739,753 (164)
- FY2026 $46,297,582 (227)
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
3435 awards on file, largest first, ranging $-13,558 to $4,316,712.
| Recipient | State | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | Not stated | $425,103 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | Not stated | $423,296 | 2020 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE | Not stated | $422,686 | 2026 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | Not stated | $421,744 | 2021 |
| BEREA COLLEGE | Not stated | $419,718 | 2020 |
| CALIFORNIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | Not stated | $418,880 | 2022 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $418,432 | 2024 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | Not stated | $416,995 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | Not stated | $416,760 | 2021 |
| STATE OF OKLAHOMA EAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $416,670 | 2020 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | Not stated | $415,366 | 2024 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI | Not stated | $415,285 | 2018 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK | Not stated | $414,740 | 2019 |
| JACK HADLEY'S BLACK HISTORY MEMORABILIA, INC. | Not stated | $413,425 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE | Not stated | $410,294 | 2024 |
| URBAN LIBRARIES COUNCIL | Not stated | $410,025 | 2022 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | Not stated | $406,885 | 2022 |
| MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUM | Not stated | $405,848 | 2024 |
| THE MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY | Not stated | $404,517 | 2026 |
| THE ASSOCIATION FOR RURAL & SMALL LIBRARIES INC | Not stated | $403,588 | 2020 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | Not stated | $402,040 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | Not stated | $399,996 | 2022 |
| TEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $399,890 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK | Not stated | $399,698 | 2022 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI | Not stated | $399,494 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | Not stated | $399,485 | 2024 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $398,927 | 2024 |
| HOUSTON FREEDMENS TOWN CONSERVANCY | Not stated | $398,857 | 2026 |
| HOWARD COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM | Not stated | $398,171 | 2022 |
| SIMMONS UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $397,060 | 2019 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | Not stated | $393,425 | 2024 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $393,232 | 2026 |
| INTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION | Not stated | $392,515 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE | Not stated | $390,378 | 2018 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $389,974 | 2026 |
| TEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $389,714 | 2018 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $389,114 | 2019 |
| BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY | Not stated | $388,777 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | Not stated | $386,469 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | Not stated | $385,769 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | Not stated | $382,982 | 2019 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | Not stated | $382,324 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK | Not stated | $381,788 | 2020 |
| PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SALT LAKE CITY, THE | Not stated | $380,993 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK | Not stated | $379,957 | 2021 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $378,046 | 2020 |
| THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION | Not stated | $377,914 | 2018 |
| HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA | Not stated | $377,630 | 2026 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | Not stated | $376,064 | 2018 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | Not stated | $374,288 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | Not stated | $374,194 | 2024 |
| THE HIGH DESERT MUSEUM | Not stated | $373,413 | 2021 |
| NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES | Not stated | $370,152 | 2020 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | Not stated | $369,400 | 2024 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH | Not stated | $369,159 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | Not stated | $367,301 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | Not stated | $366,325 | 2024 |
| FLORIDA A & M UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $363,442 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | Not stated | $363,187 | 2019 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | Not stated | $358,118 | 2026 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | Not stated | $356,835 | 2020 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | Not stated | $355,048 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | Not stated | $353,208 | 2019 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | Not stated | $352,799 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | Not stated | $352,687 | 2018 |
| SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE AND BEDFORD-STUYVESANT HISTORY, THE | Not stated | $351,707 | 2024 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | Not stated | $349,776 | 2019 |
| FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | Not stated | $349,173 | 2021 |
| NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES | Not stated | $348,772 | 2018 |
| COALITION OF STATE MUSEUM ASSOCIATIONS | Not stated | $347,662 | 2026 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | Not stated | $346,652 | 2018 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $346,595 | 2021 |
| MEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION | Not stated | $345,620 | 2021 |
| ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. | Not stated | $344,600 | 2024 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $344,598 | 2023 |
| THE SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA | Not stated | $344,157 | 2024 |
| TCC GROUP, INC. | Not stated | $343,969 | 2019 |
| THE MORTON ARBORETUM | Not stated | $343,877 | 2024 |
| AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION | Not stated | $343,476 | 2026 |
| QUEENS BOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY | Not stated | $342,760 | 2022 |
| NATIONAL BLUES MUSEUM | Not stated | $341,000 | 2024 |
| MADISON CHILDRENS MUSEUM | Not stated | $339,000 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | Not stated | $332,939 | 2022 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $330,984 | 2022 |
| PAULI MURRAY CENTER FOR HISTORY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE | Not stated | $330,800 | 2024 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $330,402 | 2019 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | Not stated | $328,999 | 2017 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | Not stated | $326,495 | 2024 |
| ATLANTA-FULTON COUNTY ZOO, INC. | Not stated | $325,940 | 2020 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | Not stated | $321,973 | 2023 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Not stated | $321,558 | 2021 |
| WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | Not stated | $321,002 | 2018 |
| OCLC, INC | Not stated | $319,920 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | Not stated | $318,989 | 2022 |
| CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE, INC. | Not stated | $318,830 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | Not stated | $317,452 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | Not stated | $317,332 | 2022 |
| JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $317,039 | 2026 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | Not stated | $317,039 | 2024 |
| MUSEO DE ARTE DE PUERTO RICO, INC. | Not stated | $316,983 | 2026 |
Source: USASpending.gov federal award records. Federal awards only. Last synced 2026-09-15.
What this funder funds
Derived from how this funder's 52 linked opportunities are classified, not from a funding strategy the funder published.
- Libraries & Arts52
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.
- Native American Library Services Enhancement Grants (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $50,000 – $150,000Checked 2026-10-22
- Native Hawaiian Library Services Grants (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $50,000 – $150,000Checked 2026-10-22
- Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $75,000 – $1,000,000Checked 2026-10-22
- National Leadership Grants for Libraries (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $25,000 – $1,000,000Checked 2026-10-22
- Native American Library Services Basic Grant (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $6,000 – $10,000Checked 2026-10-22
- Museums for America (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $5,000 – $350,000Checked 2026-10-22
- 21st Century Museum Professionals Program (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $100,000 – $500,000Checked 2026-10-22
- Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $5,000 – $500,000Checked 2026-10-22
- Inspire Grants for Small Museums (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $5,000 – $75,000Checked 2026-10-22
- Museum Grants for American Latino History and Culture (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $5,000 – $500,000Checked 2026-10-22
- National Leadership Grants for Museums (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $50,000 – $750,000Checked 2026-10-22
- Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $5,000 – $250,000Checked 2026-10-22
- Museums Empowered (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $5,000 – $350,000Checked 2026-10-22
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.
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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