Federal agency
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
$1.4 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Mission
- The National Endowment for the Humanities serves and strengthens our nation by supporting high quality projects and programs in the humanities and by making the humanities available to all Americans.
- Sub-agencies
- 2 bureaus and offices
- Website
- https://www.neh.gov/ ↗
- Agency code
- 418
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how the money leaves NEH.
Grants
$1.4B
99%
Contracts
$18.4M
1%
By sub-agency
The bureaus and offices inside NEH, by dollars committed.
Where the money goes
Top destinations of NEH'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.
Promotion of the Humanities Fellowships and StipendsProgram
$36.4M
California Humanities
$28.2M
What they buy
Top products and services NEH buys under contract, by dollars committed.
It and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Support Services (Labor)
$1.8M
It and Telecom - End User: Help Desk;Tier 1-2,Workspace,Print,Output,Productivity Tools (HW/Perp SW)
$1.7M
It and Telecom - Business Application Software (Perpetual License Software)
$1.4M
It and Telecom- Web-Based Subscription
$1.2M
Support- Management: Auditing
$1.1M
Support- Administrative: Other
$774,582
Support- Professional: Program Evaluation/Review/Development
$763,519
It and Telecom- Integrated Hardware/Software/Services Solutions, Predominantly Services
$669,432
Support- Professional: Other
$659,568
It and Telecom- Internet
$559,022
Awards
The largest individual awards issued by NEH.
The Tikvah Institute: the Jewish Civilization Project [a Major Three-year Project to Combat Anti-semitism Through Serious Education and Scho…
Dec 16, 2025$10.4M
Building a World-class Civics Faculty at Unc-ch [the School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCILL) at the University of North Carolina at Chap…
Competition
How competitively NEH'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
$14.6M
80%
Not competed
$3.3M
18%
Not available for competition
$437,638
Contract set-asides
Contract dollars NEH 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
$2.3M
12%
Service-disabled veteran
$22,385
<1%
Women-owned
$659,545
4%
Where it lands
Top states by place of performance — where NEH's work is done or its money lands, by dollars committed.
New York
$159.7M
California
$101.9M
By fiscal year
Committed dollars fell 38% across FY2018–FY2025. NEH'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
