Arts & Culture · Active
Museums for America Grants · IMLS · High-volume · mid band
Museums for America Grants (CFDA 45.313) - federal assistance administered by Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $50K–$500K
- Typical award range
- 15
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- IMLS
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Museums for America Grants ranks #300 of 504, #8 of 10 within IMLS, and #10 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 45.313 is an active Arts & Culture program with 15 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 15 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $50K–$500K
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $1.0 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 6%
- of the catalog is Arts & Culture
Museums for America Grants · floor-band ceiling on a busy book (#456/502)
Museums for America Grants sits below most listed ceilings (9th percentile among 502 active programs), a floor-band Assistance Listing card, not a mega solicitation.
Museums for America Grants vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$500,000 Top 91% higher than 9% 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 45.313 · IMLS VOL-STEADY · #300/504
VOL-STEADY · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MID · ELIG-NPO · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 15 indexed
- LOWER-HALF #300/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 15 listed
- CEIL-MID $50K–$500K
- ELIG-NPO Nonprofit
- BOOK-FULL 15 listed / 15 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 45.313
VOL-STEADY · #300/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestMuseums for America… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
High-traffic mid-ceiling grant corridor
Mid-band funding ($50,000 to $500,000) with a hot opportunity book (15 indexed rows) under CFDA 45.313. Museums for America Grants is one of the busier mid-scale corridors in the indexed set; open rate on the recent slice is 0%.
Assistance Listing text · IMLS
Competitive grants helping museums fulfill their role as educational institutions serving their communities.
Nonprofit-only applicant desk · Arts & Culture
The printed eligibility set for Museums for America Grants is nonprofit-only. Government, campus, and for-profit doors are absent from the Assistance Listing row.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 45.313
100% of the 15 indexed listings under CFDA 45.313 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Museums for America Grants typically uses to move money. 87% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $105.3 million across 15 listings (avg $7.0 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 384 across 15 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 45.313, 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 45.313
None of the 15 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 45.313 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings stay in a tight band ($1.0 million–$1.0 million; 1.0×). 93% of listings carry the Arts (AR) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 15 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $1.0 million (15 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 45.313
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (2026)
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (2025)
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (2024)
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (2023)
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (2022)
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (2022)
Laura Bush 21st Century Library Program (2021)
Laura Bush 21st Century Library Program (2021)
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (2020)
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program
Showing 10 of the 15 most recent listings (15 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 45.313: 15 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: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) (47.040). Compare program
SAM.gov ceilings are catalog maximums, not guaranteed awards; verify every deadline on Grants.gov before submitting.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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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