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IMLS Inspire! Grants for Small Museums · IMLS · Active NOFO · modest band
IMLS Inspire! Grants for Small Museums (CFDA 45.308) - federal assistance administered by Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $10K–$75K
- Typical award range
- 11
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- IMLS
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, IMLS Inspire! Grants for Small Museums ranks #295 of 504, #3 of 10 within IMLS, and #25 of 28 among Arts & Culture programs by listed funding ceiling. Across 504 active programs, 47.041 leads by opportunity count (319, funding-ceiling rank #249) ≠ 66.054 leads by funding ceiling ($7.0 billion, opportunity rank #326). CFDA 45.308 is an active Arts & Culture program with 11 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 11 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $10K–$75K
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $250,000
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 6%
- of the catalog is Arts & Culture
IMLS Inspire! Grants for Small Museums · lower-band active desk (#489/502 by ceiling)
IMLS Inspire! Grants for Small Museums sits below most listed ceilings (3rd percentile among 502 active programs), a floor-band Assistance Listing card, not a mega solicitation.
IMLS Inspire! Grants for Small Museums vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$75,000 Top 97% higher than 3% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-01-28
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 45.308 · IMLS VOL-STEADY · #295/504
VOL-STEADY · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MODEST · ELIG-NPO · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 11 indexed
- LOWER-HALF #295/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 11 listed
- CEIL-MODEST $10K–$75K
- ELIG-NPO Nonprofit
- BOOK-FULL 11 listed / 11 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 45.308
VOL-STEADY · #295/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestIMLS Inspire! Grant… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Active NOFO traffic in a modest award band
IMLS Inspire! Grants for Small Museums is an active mid-volume CFDA (11 indexed rows) inside a modest SAM.gov range ($10,000 to $75,000). 0 of 11 recent listings are open. Applicants should prioritize deadline hygiene over ceiling shopping.
Assistance Listing text · IMLS
Grants for small museums to enhance operations, increase access, and advance standards of practice.
Nonprofit-only applicant desk · Arts & Culture
The printed eligibility set for IMLS Inspire! Grants for Small Museums is nonprofit-only. Government, campus, and for-profit doors are absent from the Assistance Listing row.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 45.308
100% of the 11 indexed listings under CFDA 45.308 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism IMLS Inspire! Grants for Small Museums typically uses to move money. None of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $23.6 million across 11 listings (avg $2.1 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 252 across 11 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 45.308, not the 10 listings shown below; a listing missing a field is excluded from that field's total, not counted as zero.
Archived NOFO book · CFDA 45.308
None of the 11 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 45.308 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings span $50,000–$250,000 (5.0×), a wide solicitation range inside one CFDA. 100% of listings carry the Arts (AR) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 11 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $100,000 (11 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Arts (AR)
Open counts use the same posted+close_date rule as the rest of PlainGrants; funding-activity codes are the Grants.gov category_of_funding field (first code when several are joined). Ceiling median is over positive reported ceilings only.
IMLS · administering agency
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Library and museum services, digital learning, and community engagement programs.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 45.308
Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services (2026)
Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services (2025)
Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services (2024)
Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services (2023)
Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services (2022)
Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services (2021)
IMLS CARES Act Grants for Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum and Library Services
Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services
Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services
Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program
Showing 10 of the 11 most recent listings (11 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 45.308: 11 indexed opportunities · 0 open on the recent slice.
- No open Grants.gov rows on the recent slice, watch this CFDA for the next NOFO drop. How to apply
- Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) administers 10 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs… (10.210). Compare program
SAM.gov ceilings are catalog maximums, not guaranteed awards; verify every deadline on Grants.gov before submitting.
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Every figure on PlainGrants is rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no number is typed in by an editor. This grant program's figures are rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data issue on this page.
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