Inter-American Foundation federal obligations through FY2026

A $42.4 million grassroots-grant book

IAF’s statutory niche is small-scale development assistance in the Western Hemisphere, often through local groups rather than large government-to-government transfers. USAspending does not grade those projects. It records awards the Foundation made. $42,413,842 through FY2026 is that obligation stock. Host-country grantees and U.S. administrative vendors can both appear if they sit on federal award records tagged to CGAC 164.

One hundred twenty-five awards against $42.4 million implies about $339,311 per award. That mean is higher than a micro-grant stereotype and lower than Denali-scale infrastructure instruments. The packet has no median and no country split, even though the mission is regional.

What the 125 awards omit

USAID, the State Department, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation fund overlapping geographies under other CGACs. Their dollars are not inside IAF’s $42,413,842. Adding those books by hand would invent a combined “Latin America assistance” agency that USAspending does not publish.

Foundation staff salaries generally never appear as awards. Local counterpart contributions that never become federal awards are also absent. The $42.4 million is complete as an IAF awarding-agency ledger; it is incomplete as a development-finance encyclopedia.

FY2026 cutoff and drawdowns

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year on the packet. The $42,413,842 is cumulative through that horizon, not IAF’s FY2026 appropriation alone. Multi-year grassroots awards remain in a running obligation total until closed or de-obligated.

Outlays can trail as grantees draw down. This packet has no outlay total. Do not treat $42.4 million as cash already in community accounts. Treat it as legal commitments for awarding agency 164.

CGAC 164

Inter-American Foundation rows use awarding-agency code 164. SpendingVault’s /agencies/164/ path is keyed to it. The African Development Foundation, if present as a separate CGAC, would be a sibling model with a different code and a different total. Code 164 is an identifier, not a World Bank project number.

U.S. state tables for a foreign-grant agency

The state table for agency 164 shows domestic USAspending geography on the 125 awards—often vendor or headquarters locations rather than host countries. A large state share is not a claim that IAF funds that U.S. state’s development. Country-of-performance detail, when present, lives on award-level records.

Open the Inter-American Foundation agency page for the live $42,413,842 and 125-award filters. Use the all-agencies directory to find CGAC 164. Dollar rank against a domestic grant-maker measures different statutes.

Grassroots grantees, host countries, and 125 federal rows

IAF grants often go to local organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean. USAspending still tags many of the 125 awards with U.S. location fields when vendors or headquarters units are domestic. The state table for agency 164 is that domestic geography. It is not a ranking of host countries by grassroots activity.

USAID and State Department programs in the same region use other awarding-agency codes. Their dollars are not inside the $42,413,842. Adding those books by hand invents a combined assistance agency that USAspending does not publish. This page stays on CGAC 164.

Drawdowns on grassroots awards can lag obligations. This packet has no outlay total. Treat $42.4 million as commitments through FY2026. Open award-level records for country-of-performance values when they exist. Use the IAF agency page for live tables. Staff salaries generally never appear among the 125 awards, so the table understates full operating cost.

Grassroots grant size is often smaller than the $339,311 mean because administrative instruments share the 125-row book. The packet has no median, so the mean can overstate a typical community grant. Open award-level records if the question is the size of assistance to local groups. The $42,413,842 is the combined stock through FY2026 for CGAC 164. Use the IAF agency page for live tables. Host-country fields, when populated, are on individual awards rather than on the U.S. state roll-up.

Spanish- and Portuguese-language program work does not change the USAspending geography rules. The 125 awards still often carry U.S. location fields. The $42,413,842 is the federal stock through FY2026 for CGAC 164. Country-of-performance, when populated, is on individual records. Use the IAF agency page for live tables. Counterpart contributions that never became federal awards stay off this total. Outlays on grassroots grants can lag as groups draw down.

Questions

How much has the Inter-American Foundation obligated?

USAspending.gov shows $42,413,842 in IAF obligations through FY2026 across 125 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 164 is the filter. The total is federal award commitments, not a count of community groups and not USAID’s Latin America book. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 164 is the source for the current 125-award book.

What is the average IAF award?

Dividing $42,413,842 by 125 awards yields about $339,311. The packet has no median and no country-by-country split. Grassroots grants and 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 164?

164 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the Inter-American Foundation. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/164/. USAID and State Department awards use different 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.

Why is there a U.S. state table for IAF?

USAspending still tags many awards with U.S. recipient or place-of-performance locations. The state table for agency 164 reports those domestic fields for the 125 awards. Host-country geography, when it exists, is on individual award records. 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.