National Gallery of Art federal obligations through FY2026

A $321.8 million award ledger for a federal museum

The National Gallery of Art on the National Mall is a federally administered museum. USAspending does not appraise paintings. It records awards the Gallery made. $321,844,777.68 through FY2026 is that obligation stock. Building systems, art handling, information technology, and visitor-service contracts can all sit inside the same total. Acquisition prices for works of art are not automatically the same rows; only awards that entered the USAspending warehouse appear.

Eight hundred twenty-one awards is a substantial operations book for a single museum campus. It is denser than a handful of giant facilities vehicles and thinner than a high-volume national grant catalog. The Gallery’s public identity is the collection; this table’s identity is the 821 award records.

Average obligation near $392,000

Dividing $321,844,777.68 by 821 produces about $392,016 per award. Facilities and security vehicles can be large; small conservation purchases sit in the other tail. Without a median in the packet, the ratio is the only summary statistic available. Readers who need a single contractor’s ceiling have to open award-level USAspending records.

Place of performance will often resolve to the District of Columbia because the campus is there. The state table can still show other jurisdictions when vendors, warehouses, or traveling-exhibition partners are tagged elsewhere. That is a location-field result, not a second museum.

Trust funds, appropriations, and what USAspending sees

The Gallery’s financing mix historically includes federal appropriations and private trust resources. This packet does not split those sources. $321,844,777.68 is the USAspending awarding-agency total for CGAC 3302, not a full audited statement of Gallery revenues. Private gifts that never become federal awards will not appear. Federal awards that do appear are obligations, not necessarily outlays.

FY2026 is the extract cutoff. Multi-year renovation or security contracts signed earlier still feed the running total if they remain open. This page does not list those project names; the packet has no project field.

CGAC 3302 and neighboring cultural codes

The National Gallery of Art uses awarding-agency code 3302 in this dataset. Other cultural institutions in USAspending use other CGACs and are totaled on their own pages. Mixing 3302 with those codes would invent a combined “federal culture” total that USAspending does not publish as a single agency. SpendingVault keeps /agencies/3302/ on the Gallery only.

Using the Gallery tables

Start on the National Gallery of Art agency page for the live $321,844,777.68 and 821-award figures. The state subdirectory shows how USAspending attributed those awards geographically. The all-agencies index is a directory. Dollar comparisons between the Gallery and a grant-making endowment measure different missions; both are still awarding-agency obligation stocks from the same source.

Nothing in the 821 rows tells you attendance, acquisition highlights, or exhibition calendars. Those are museum statistics. This file is the federal award extract through FY2026.

Campus operations, traveling exhibitions, and the 821-row split

Most Gallery awards will pin to the District of Columbia because the campus is there. Traveling-exhibition logistics, off-site storage, and conservation vendors can still tag other states in USAspending location fields. The state table for agency 3302 reports those fields for the 821 awards. A non-D.C. share is not a second National Gallery. It is a vendor or performance-site tag on a federal award.

Collection insurance, art-handler contracts, and building-systems work can all sit inside the $321,844,777.68 without being labeled as such in this packet. The five facts do not include object class or NAICS. Readers who need those dimensions must open award-level records. This prose will not guess which of the 821 rows is a chiller replacement and which is a frame shop.

Trust-fund activity that never becomes a federal award remains invisible here. FY2026 is the cutoff, not a capital-project completion date. Refresh the Gallery agency page after the next USAspending load if the question is whether the $321.8 million has moved. Outlays on the 821 instruments are unpublished. CGAC 3302 stays the filter; do not merge other cultural codes by hand.

Attendance, membership, and exhibition calendars are museum statistics. They do not move in lockstep with the 821 awards. A crowded East Building weekend can leave $321,844,777.68 untouched. A multi-year building-systems vehicle can dominate the mean of about $392,016. Readers who need object-class or NAICS detail must leave this roll-up. FY2026 is the warehouse vintage. The Gallery agency page carries the live CGAC 3302 tables.

Questions

How much has the National Gallery of Art obligated on USAspending?

USAspending.gov shows $321,844,777.68 in National Gallery of Art obligations through FY2026 across 821 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 3302 is the filter. The total is not a valuation of the art collection. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 3302 is the source for the current 821-award book.

What is the average Gallery award?

Dividing $321,844,777.68 by 821 awards yields about $392,016. The packet has no median. Large facilities or security contracts can raise the mean above many smaller purchase orders. 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 does agency code 3302 mean?

3302 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the National Gallery of Art. SpendingVault’s /agencies/3302/ path uses that code. The Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian are separate awarding agencies. 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.

Does $321.8 million include private donations to the Gallery?

Only if those funds were issued as federal awards in the USAspending extract. Private gifts that never become federal awards are outside the 821-row total. The packet does not split trust versus appropriated dollars. 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.