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ECA Individual Grants

Program Information

Popular name

Individual Grants, U.S. academics and professionals, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA)

Program Number

19.450

Program objective

To provide individual assistance awards by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) to experts and other influential or distinguished persons in the United States, including U.S. academics and professionals, athletes and coaches and creative and performing artists, with funds appropriated to and authorized by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. These individual grants support interchanges between the United States and other countries that address issues of mutual interest consistent with the Fulbright-Hays Act. As authorized by the Fulbright-Hays Act, ECA seeks to “increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries by means of educational and cultural exchange; to strengthen the ties which unite us with other nations by demonstrating the educational and cultural interests, developments, and achievements of the people of the United States and other nations, and the contributions being made toward a peaceful and more fruitful life for people throughout the world; to promote international cooperation for educational and cultural advancement; and thus to assist in the development of friendly, sympathetic, and peaceful relations between the United States and other countries of the world.”

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    No Current Data Available. No Current Data Available

  2. 2017

    No Current Data Available.

  3. 2018

    No Current Data Available.

  4. 2019

    No Current Data Available.

  5. 2020

    No Current Data Available.

  6. 2021

    No Current Data Available.

  7. 2022

    No Current Data Available.

  8. 2023

    No Current Data Available.

  9. 2024

    No Current Data Available.

  10. 2025

    No Current Data Available.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

Guidelines for programs will vary with individual activities.

Program details

Categories & sub-categories

Education

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Anyone/general public
  • Asian
  • Black
  • Disabled (e.g. Deaf, Blind, Physically Disabled)
  • Education (13+)
  • Education Professional
  • Major Metropolis (over 250,000)
  • Other Non-White
  • Other Urban
  • Physically Afflicted (e.g. TB, Arthritis, Heart Disease)
  • Rural
  • Senior Citizen (60+)
  • Spanish Origin
  • Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans)
  • Suburban
  • U.S. Citizen
  • Women

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