CIGIE federal obligations through FY2026

Council operations, not every IG’s budget

Inspectors general across cabinet departments and independent agencies run their own award books under their parent CGACs. $6,611,374.61 through FY2026 is what CIGIE itself obligated on 91 awards—training, integrity-committee support, information sharing, and other instruments tagged to CGAC 542. Treating this figure as “all IG spending” would collapse dozens of statutory offices into a 91-row council ledger.

Ninety-one awards against $6.6 million implies about $72,652 per award. That low mean on a modest count fits a coordinating body buying many small administrative instruments. The packet has no median and no list of member IGs.

What 91 awards omit

Hotline complaints, audit reports, and semiannual IG reports to Congress are products of individual IG offices. They are not these 91 USAspending rows. A year with more IG audits government-wide does not automatically raise $6,611,374.61. A CIGIE training contract can raise it with no change in audit volume.

Council staff salaries generally never appear as awards. The $6.6 million understates CIGIE’s full operating cost if a reader expected the award file to equal the appropriation. It is complete as an awarding-agency ledger for CGAC 542.

FY2026 cutoff

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year on the packet. The $6,611,374.61 is cumulative through that horizon, not a single-year CIGIE appropriation. Multi-year training vehicles remain in the running total until closed.

Outlays are unpublished. Treat the figure as commitments for awarding agency 542. Integrity Committee casework, if any, is not a column in this extract.

CGAC 542

CIGIE rows use awarding-agency code 542. SpendingVault’s /agencies/542/ path is keyed to it. Individual inspectors general award under their agencies’ codes. Code 542 is an identifier for the Council, not an IG investigation number.

State tables for a coordinating council

The state table for agency 542 attributes the 91 awards using USAspending location fields. That map is vendor and performance geography for Council awards, not a map of IG field offices. A large state share can be a training vendor, not a claim that that state generated more IG work.

Open the CIGIE agency page for the live $6,611,374.61 and 91-award filters. Use the all-agencies directory to find CGAC 542. Dollar rank is not a ranking of government waste or of audit coverage.

Member IG offices versus 91 Council awards

Inspectors general across departments run their own award books under parent CGACs. CIGIE’s $6,611,374.61 on 91 awards is the Council’s coordinating ledger—training, integrity-committee support, and related instruments tagged to 542. Treating that figure as all IG spending would collapse dozens of statutory offices into 91 rows.

Hotline complaints and semiannual IG reports to Congress are products of member offices. They are not these 91 rows. A year with more government-wide audits does not automatically raise the Council total. A CIGIE training contract can raise it with no change in audit volume.

The state table for agency 542 is vendor geography for Council awards, not a map of IG field offices. FY2026 is the cutoff. Use the CIGIE agency page for live tables. Staff salaries generally never appear among the 91 rows. Outlays are unpublished. Keep CGAC 542 unmerged with individual inspectors general. The mean of about $72,652 fits many small administrative instruments.

Integrity Committee referrals are Council process, not the 91 USAspending awards. A year with more referrals can leave $6,611,374.61 unchanged. A training contract can move it with no change in referrals. Member IG audit dollars remain other CGACs. This page stays on awarding agency 542 through FY2026. Use the CIGIE agency page for live tables. The mean of about $72,652 fits many small administrative instruments. The state table is vendor geography for Council awards, not IG field-office maps.

Training-roster counts are Council program statistics. They are not the 91 awards. A larger training class does not automatically raise $6,611,374.61. An events contract can raise it with no change in roster size. FY2026 is the cutoff. Use the CIGIE agency page for live CGAC 542 tables. Member IG offices keep their own CGACs. The mean of about $72,652 is unsplit. Outlays are unpublished.

Questions

How much has CIGIE obligated on USAspending?

The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency shows $6,611,374.61 in obligations through FY2026 across 91 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 542 is the filter. That total is the Council’s own award book, not the sum of every inspector general office.

What is the average CIGIE award?

Dividing $6,611,374.61 by 91 awards yields about $72,652. The packet has no median. Training and other administrative instruments share the same mean. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What is agency code 542?

542 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for CIGIE. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/542/. Individual IG offices award under their parent agencies’ codes. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Is $6.6 million all federal inspector general spending?

No. Member IGs award under other CGACs. This page reports only CIGIE’s $6,611,374.61 on 91 awards through FY2026. Outlays are unpublished in the packet. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.