Cultural Property Agreements Implementation Grants
- Posted
- March 9, 2026
- Closed
- April 15, 2026
- Award ceiling
- $150,000
- Award floor
- $25,000
- Program funding
- $500,000
- Expected awards
- 4
- Cost sharing
- No
- Instrument
- Cooperative Agreement, Grant
- Assistance listing
- 19.036
- Archives
- May 15, 2026
Program funding history
Awards made under Assistance Listing 19.036 across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.
- FY2025 obligated
- $283,562
- FY2026 obligated
- $1.2M
- FY2027 (to date) obligated
- $0
- Awards in window
- 26
Top recipients: American Society of Overseas Research, The Antiquities Coalition, Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees, Organizacion de Estados Iberoamericanos, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, the
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →
Synopsis
The Cultural Heritage Center (CHC) in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) is pleased to announce the start of the 2026 program cycle for Cultural Property Agreement Implementation Grants (CPAIG). U.S. embassies in countries with cultural property agreements or emergency import restrictions may submit applications for projects to protect cultural property from looting, theft, and trafficking, or other security threats. The following countries are eligible under this opportunity: Afghanistan*, Albania, Algeria, Belize, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Syria, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Yemen. *Note: Eligibility restricted to U.S.-based nonprofits or institutions of higher education working outside of Afghanistan to support the emergency import restrictions unilaterally imposed by the United States on archaeological and ethnological material from Afghanistan.
Full implementation of the CPAIG 2026 Program is pending the availability of Fiscal Year 2026 funds.
Application deadlines vary by U.S. embassy. Contact the U.S. embassy directly for application deadlines.
Who can apply
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Foreign Institutions of Higher Education, Foreign-Based Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Foreign Public Entities (where permitted), Public International Organizations and Governmental Institutions, U.S. Institutions of Higher Education, U.S. Non-Profit Organizations (IRS section 501(c)(3))
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