Federal grants to American Library Association
American Library Association in Chicago, Illinois received $6.0 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 12 awards. Its largest program was Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs, with $3.2 million. It had no new grant money in fiscal 2025.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated October 31, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$6.0 million
- Awards12
- Awarded in FY 2025$0
- Largest award$2.2 million
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 5 | $3.7 million |
| FY 2022 | 4 | $983,677 |
| FY 2023 | 3 | $728,427 |
| FY 2024 | 2 | $593,787 |
| FY 2025 | 0 | $0 |
Programs that fund American Library Association
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs | 4 | $3.2 million |
| National Leadership Grants | 4 | $1.4 million |
| Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program | 3 | $1.3 million |
| STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) | 1 | $170,761 |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| National Endowment for the Humanities | 4 | $3.2 million |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | 7 | $2.7 million |
| National Science Foundation | 1 | $170,761 |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humanities grants for libraries [the american library association (ALA) requests $2,221,576 in neh american rescue plan: humanities grantmaking funding to provide libraries the support they need to reaffirm and strengthen their roles, post-pandemic, as vibrant centers of humanities learning, convers | Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs | September 22, 2021 | $2.2 million |
| The american library association, in partnership with the university of South Carolina's school of information science, will recruit a cohort of 8-10 racially and ethnically diverse doctoral students focused on advancing racial equity and social justice in library and information science (LIS) curri | Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program | July 15, 2021 | $798,489 |
| Supporting library humanities programming during COVID [the american library association?s (ALA) public programs office (PPO) requests $499,990 in arp funding to continue serving libraries and library workers, sustaining and growing their efforts to provide humanities programming and content during | Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs | November 16, 2021 | $499,990 |
| The american library association (ALA) will conduct a three-year research grant to conduct phase 2 of the national impact of library public programs assessment. Building on ala?s previous imls-supported research, the grant will continue to build and expand a foundational and actionable understanding | National Leadership Grants | July 15, 2021 | $496,891 |
| The american library association, with members of the new adult literacy and learning impact network, including the barbara bush foundation for family literacy, national center for families learning, proliteracy, and world education, will design adult and family literacy support centers for librarie | National Leadership Grants | July 9, 2024 | $491,030 |
| The american library association’s office of intellectual freedom will implement a program to equip the library workforce with the skills and knowledge to ensure that libraries both preserve and provide the broadest possible access to the cultural, artistic, historical, natural, and scientific colle | Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program | September 19, 2023 | $434,866 |
| Let?s talk about it: women?s suffrage | Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs | June 3, 2021 | $249,999 |
| The public library association will partner with the national center for families learning to develop new tools and training models to support authentic engagement of spanish-speaking families. This two-year project will train public library staff from California, Georgia, and Massachusetts on best | National Leadership Grants | July 5, 2023 | $249,963 |
| The american library association (ALA) public programs office in chicago, Illinois, will support the creation of adult media literacy programming resources focused on how the often-overlooked structural parts of the internet affect the information people see and find online. The project will create | National Leadership Grants | July 18, 2022 | $223,812 |
| The great stories club: reading and discussion for at-risk youth [the great stories club is a thematic reading and discussion program developed to connect librarians with at-risk youth in their communities through literature-based outreach.] | Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs | August 16, 2022 | $213,546 |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does American Library Association get?
$6.0 million in 12 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives American Library Association the most?
The National Endowment for the Humanities, with $3.2 million in 4 awards. The Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Science Foundation follow.
What is American Library Association's largest federal grant?
$2.2 million under Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs, with its first action in the period on September 22, 2021. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.
Which federal programs fund American Library Association?
Its largest are Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs, National Leadership Grants and Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.
Other grant recipients in Chicago
- Chicago Transit Authority
- Northeast Illinois Railroad Co
- The University of Chicago
- University of Illinois
- Illinois Department of Employment Security
- Chicago Housing Authority
- Chicago Department of Public Health
- City of Chicago
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