National Leadership Grants for Libraries (2027)
- Award ceiling
- $25,000 – $1,000,000
- Closes
- Nov 13, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-10-24
Awards $25,000 – $1,000,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Nov 13, 2026.
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Libraries & Arts
In one sentence
National Leadership Grants for Libraries (2027) awards $25,000 – $1,000,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Nov 13, 2026.
Record fields
- Program pool (total)
- $11,500,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $1,000,000
- Award floor
- $25,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Nov 13, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Sep 1, 2026
- Status
- Closing soon
- Eligible entities
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Geography
- Not stated
- Matching funds
- Yes
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- promote adult reading · promote health and financial literacies · programming and archival practices related to shared American history · manage and preserve the national information infrastructure · serve the public's information and education needs · enhance library and information services through effective and efficient use of new and emerging technologies · improve community prosperity · provide emergency services to communities during disasters and emergencies · build collaborative partnerships between libraries, archives, and museums
- Currency
- USD
How much money is available?
Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.
Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
$11,500,000Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$1,000,000Who can apply?
level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Source field: entity typesindustry
Source field: industries
use
build collaborative partnerships between libraries, archives, and museums, enhance library and information services through effective and efficient use of new and emerging technologies, improve community prosperity, manage and preserve the national information infrastructure, programming and archival practices related to shared American history, promote adult reading, promote health and financial literacies, provide emergency services to communities during disasters and emergencies, serve the public's information and education needs
Source field: use of fundssize limit
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitclause text
See the Notice of Funding Opportunity for eligibility requirements.
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
Nov 13, 202620 daysDeadline type Fixed date
What can the money be used for?
9 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
promote adult readingpromote health and financial literaciesprogramming and archival practices related to shared American historymanage and preserve the national information infrastructureserve the public's information and education needsenhance library and information services through effective and efficient use of new and emerging technologiesimprove community prosperityprovide emergency services to communities during disasters and emergenciesbuild collaborative partnerships between libraries, archives, and museums
These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.
How hard is the application?
1 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Matching funds
- Yes
Who has received this funding?
854 awardsAwards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.
854 prior awards on file for this programme, largest first. Every row comes from the funder's own award listing; nothing here is estimated.
| Recipient | State | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION | Not stated | $168,575 | 2021 |
| CHEMEKETA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT | Not stated | $166,141 | 2021 |
| NEBRASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | Not stated | $164,586 | 2021 |
| CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $164,340 | 2024 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO | Not stated | $162,034 | 2021 |
| PUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | Not stated | $161,466 | 2021 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $159,726 | 2019 |
| AAMC FOUNDATION | Not stated | $158,831 | 2023 |
| SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | Not stated | $156,653 | 2021 |
| VISITOR STUDIES ASSOCIATION INC | Not stated | $156,403 | 2023 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | Not stated | $152,722 | 2022 |
| BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION, INC. | Not stated | $150,000 | 2020 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $150,000 | 2024 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | Not stated | $150,000 | 2024 |
| TOWSON UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $150,000 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | Not stated | $150,000 | 2020 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | Not stated | $150,000 | 2025 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | Not stated | $149,995 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | Not stated | $149,994 | 2026 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | Not stated | $149,994 | 2022 |
| STATEWIDE CALIFORNIA ELECTRONIC LIBRARY CONSORTIUM, INC. | Not stated | $149,986 | 2022 |
| PRIVATE ACADEMIC LIBRARY NETWORK OF INDIANA INC | Not stated | $149,893 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF MARYLAND | Not stated | $149,877 | 2023 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | Not stated | $149,842 | 2024 |
| ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $149,774 | 2020 |
| COUNCIL OF STATE ARCHIVISTS, INC. | Not stated | $149,736 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO | Not stated | $149,706 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | Not stated | $149,610 | 2024 |
| URBAN LIBRARIES COUNCIL | Not stated | $149,584 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE | Not stated | $149,535 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | Not stated | $149,295 | 2024 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $149,259 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | Not stated | $149,195 | 2023 |
| SECRETARY OF STATE, WASHINGTON | Not stated | $148,980 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | Not stated | $148,710 | 2024 |
| EDUCOPIA INSTITUTE, INC | Not stated | $147,688 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII | Not stated | $147,420 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS | Not stated | $147,317 | 2021 |
| ASOTIN COUNTY LIBRARY | Not stated | $146,575 | 2023 |
| ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY | Not stated | $144,604 | 2019 |
| TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $140,720 | 2019 |
| CITY OF MADISON | Not stated | $139,287 | 2021 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $138,905 | 2022 |
| STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | Not stated | $138,545 | 2021 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | Not stated | $137,019 | 2019 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | Not stated | $136,871 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | Not stated | $136,126 | 2022 |
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | Not stated | $135,509 | 2019 |
| CAL POLY HUMBOLDT SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION | Not stated | $132,993 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | Not stated | $132,759 | 2024 |
| CITY OF PALO ALTO | Not stated | $127,240 | 2021 |
| SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA LIBRARY SYSTEM | Not stated | $126,692 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | Not stated | $125,860 | 2020 |
| CITY OF THREE RIVERS | Not stated | $125,587 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE | Not stated | $122,634 | 2024 |
| COBIMET, INC | Not stated | $118,334 | 2024 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | Not stated | $117,707 | 2024 |
| ITHAKA HARBORS INC. | Not stated | $115,972 | 2022 |
| OMAHA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | Not stated | $115,167 | 2026 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | Not stated | $113,071 | 2023 |
| AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | Not stated | $112,933 | 2019 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE | Not stated | $110,343 | 2024 |
| CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART AND HISTORIC ARTIFACTS | Not stated | $110,040 | 2022 |
| THE WILLOW HILL HERITAGE AND RENAISSANCE CENTER, INC. | Not stated | $109,420 | 2021 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $106,147 | 2023 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $104,771 | 2024 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | Not stated | $103,417 | 2021 |
| ASSOCIATION OF MIDWEST MUSEUMS INC | Not stated | $102,282 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK | Not stated | $101,591 | 2019 |
| COUNTY OF CHARLESTON | Not stated | $100,000 | 2026 |
| MEDINA COUNTY DISTRICT LIBRARY | Not stated | $100,000 | 2025 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE | Not stated | $100,000 | 2020 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | Not stated | $99,958 | 2020 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | Not stated | $99,658 | 2019 |
| LAS VEGAS-CLARK COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT | Not stated | $99,405 | 2021 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | Not stated | $98,321 | 2020 |
| URBAN LIBRARIES COUNCIL | Not stated | $98,020 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | Not stated | $97,955 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA | Not stated | $95,754 | 2019 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE | Not stated | $95,727 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | Not stated | $93,681 | 2020 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $92,922 | 2022 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES AT WHITEVILLE INC | Not stated | $91,939 | 2021 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $91,430 | 2025 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | Not stated | $87,482 | 2020 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Not stated | $87,461 | 2018 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | Not stated | $87,383 | 2019 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | Not stated | $85,733 | 2017 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | Not stated | $85,412 | 2019 |
| AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | Not stated | $85,409 | 2020 |
| WICOMICO COUNTY FREE LIBRARY, INCORPORATED | Not stated | $83,770 | 2021 |
| BOARD OF EDUCATION COLORADO | Not stated | $83,590 | 2022 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $82,624 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | Not stated | $81,181 | 2018 |
| RHODE ISLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | Not stated | $80,772 | 2021 |
| TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL | Not stated | $79,257 | 2021 |
| CITY OF NOME | Not stated | $75,147 | 2021 |
| CALIFA GROUP | Not stated | $74,875 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO | Not stated | $74,232 | 2020 |
| WASHINGTON MUSEUM ASSOCIATION | Not stated | $74,180 | 2024 |
Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.
What comparable notices state
26 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Libraries & Arts, 26 of 32 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$112,500
- Median$350,000
- 75th percentile$500,000
A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.
Who has won this programme before?
854 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.
854 federal awards on file under assistance listing 45.312, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.
- $4,316,712ASSOCIATION OF TRIBAL ARCHIVES LIBRARIES & MUSEUMSOK · FY2021
- $3,868,200AMERICA250.ORG, INC.DC · FY2025
- $3,121,324TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THEPA · FY2024
- $2,728,016FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN CONSERVATIONDC · FY2021
- $2,696,532OCLC, INCOH · FY2020
Common questions
7 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- How much can one applicant receive?
- $25,000 – $1,000,000 per recipient.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $11,500,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- When is the application deadline?
- Nov 13, 2026.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
- What can the funding be used for?
- promote adult reading, promote health and financial literacies, programming and archival practices related to shared American history, manage and preserve the national information infrastructure, serve the public's information and education needs, enhance library and information services through effective and efficient use of new and emerging technologies, improve community prosperity, provide emergency services to communities during disasters and emergencies, build collaborative partnerships between libraries, archives, and museums, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- Yes. This programme requires matching funds.
- Has this programme funded anyone before?
- 854 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by Institute of Museum and Library Services. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.
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Also open from Institute of Museum and Library Services
- National Leadership Grants for Museums (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $50,000 – $750,000
- Native American Library Services Basic Grant (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $6,000 – $10,000
- Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $75,000 – $1,000,000
- Native Hawaiian Library Services Grants (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $50,000 – $150,000
- Native American Library Services Enhancement Grants (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $50,000 – $150,000
- Museums Empowered (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $5,000 – $350,000
Also open under assistance listing 45.312
A listing names the programme; a notice names one round of it. These are other rounds open now, not other years of this one.
- National Leadership Grants for Museums (2027)Closes Nov 13, 2026Awards $50,000 – $750,000
Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-10-24
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-03
Assistance listing45.312
The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.