Federal agency
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
$120.2 Million committed in FY2025
- Mission
- The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.
- Sub-agencies
- 1 bureaus and offices
- Website
- https://www.arts.gov/ ↗
- Agency code
- 417
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how the money leaves NEA.
Grants
$116.3M
97%
Contracts
$3.9M
3%
Where the money goes
Top destinations of NEA'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 NEA buys under contract, by dollars committed.
It and Telecom - Security and Compliance Products (Hardware and Perpetual License Software)
$1.7M
It and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Support Services (Labor)
$1.1M
It and Telecom - It Management Support Services (Labor)
$713,491
It and Telecom - Business Application Software (Perpetual License Software)
$429,133
Support- Management: Auditing
$167,751
Support- Professional: Operations Research/Quantitative Analysis
$122,936
It and Telecom - Service Delivery Support Services: Itsm, Operations Center, Project/PM (Labor)
$91,255
Support- Professional: Program Management/Support
$90,000
It and Telecom - Application Development Software (Perpetual License Software)
$71,908
It and Telecom - Mobile Device as a Service
$50,837
Awards
The largest individual awards issued by NEA.
Competition
How competitively NEA'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
$3.8M
99%
Not competed
$34,300
<1%
Not available for competition
$10,340
Contract set-asides
Contract dollars NEA 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
$3.1M
81%
Full and open
$766,461
20%
Where it lands
Top states by place of performance — where NEA's work is done or its money lands, by dollars committed.
Maryland
$10.6M
District of Columbia
$8.6M
New York
By fiscal year
Roughly flat across FY2018–FY2025. NEA'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
