Federal agency
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
$2.4 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Mission
- The mission of IMLS is to inspire libraries and museums to advance innovation, lifelong learning, and cultural and civic engagement. We provide leadership through research, policy development, and grant making.
- Sub-agencies
- 2 bureaus and offices
- Website
- https://www.imls.gov/ ↗
- Agency code
- 474
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how the money leaves IMLS.
Grants
$2.4B
97%
Contracts
$61.9M
3%
By sub-agency
The bureaus and offices inside IMLS, by dollars committed.
Where the money goes
Top destinations of IMLS's committed dollars. Direct payments to individuals (Medicare, Social Security, …) are aggregated by the government, so they show as the federal program rather than a named recipient.
What they buy
Top products and services IMLS buys under contract, by dollars committed.
Operation of Conference Space and Facilities
$7.0M
Education, Training, Employment, & Social SVCS R&D SVCS; Education SVCS R&D; Basic Research
$6.1M
Support- Professional: Market Research/Public Opinion
$5.6M
It and Telecom - It Management Support Services (Labor)
$4.6M
It and Telecom- Systems Development
$4.0M
Support- Professional: Program Evaluation/Review/Development
$3.9M
Support- Management: Data Collection
$3.9M
It and Telecom - Service Delivery Support Services: Itsm, Operations Center, Project/PM (Labor)
$3.7M
Support- Management: Public Relations
$3.5M
Education/Training- Other
$3.4M
Awards
The largest individual awards issued by IMLS.
Competition
How competitively IMLS's contract dollars were awarded. 'Not available' is legitimate sole-source (a single source — utilities, proprietary parts); 'not competed' is the flag worth a second look.
Competed
$54.4M
88%
Not competed
$5.7M
9%
Not available for competition
$1.5M
Contract set-asides
Contract dollars IMLS reserved before bidding for a specific kind of firm — small business, 8(a), service-disabled-veteran, women-owned, HUBZone — versus full and open competition.
Small business
$552,111
<1%
8(a)
$9.4M
15%
Women-owned
$547,327
<1%
Where it lands
Top states by place of performance — where IMLS's work is done or its money lands, by dollars committed.
California
$213.9M
New York
$153.2M
Texas
By fiscal year
Committed dollars grew 14% across FY2018–FY2025. IMLS's committed dollars per fiscal year, FY2018–FY2026.
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How to read these numbers
- Committed, not paid
Every figure is money this agency committed — legally promised by signing a contract or awarding a grant — counted in the year each action happened, not cash out the door.
- From FY2018 on
Agency pages start at fiscal year 2018, the first year of complete federal-assistance reporting. Earlier years aren't shown rather than shown wrong.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- Benefits show as programs
Medicare, Social Security, and other direct payments to individuals are aggregated by the government, so under Where the money goes they appear as the program, not a named recipient.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments
