U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation Grants Program
- Posted
- November 4, 2024
- Closed
- April 30, 2025
- Award ceiling
- $500,000
- Award floor
- $25,000
- Program funding
- $6,000,000
- Expected awards
- 30
- Cost sharing
- No
- Instrument
- Cooperative Agreement, Grant
- Assistance listing
- 19.025
- Archives
- September 30, 2025
Program funding history
Awards made under Assistance Listing 19.025 across FY2024–FY2026, from public federal spending records.
- FY2024 obligated
- $4.9M
- FY2025 obligated
- $1.5M
- FY2026 (to date) obligated
- $4.3M
- Awards in window
- 123
Top recipients: The American Center of Research, Incorporated, The William Foxwell Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees, World Monuments Fund, Inc., Resilience Labs
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed September 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →
Synopsis
The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) helps protect historic buildings, archaeological sites, museum collections, and traditional cultural expressions like indigenous languages and crafts around the world. Contact individual U.S. embassies for program availability and application deadlines as they vary from country to country. Refer to the USAFCP 2025 Notice of Funding Opportunity PDF on the Related Documents tab for details, including embassy contact information.
Eligible countries:
Sub-Saharan Africa: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
East Asia & the Pacific: Brunei Darussalam, Burma, Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Kiribati, Laos, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam.
Europe & Eurasia: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Türkiye, Ukraine.
Middle East & North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen.
South & Central Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
Western Hemisphere: Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, The Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela.
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))
The official record
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