Federal contractor · BOSTON, MA

THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, INC.

THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, INC. received $296.7K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards. Since FY2023: $375.7K. Its largest customer was Smithsonian Institution ($296.7K).

Obligations · FY2026
$296.7K
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
CK64BAYLA9R3
Other than small businessNonprofit
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 79KFY2023
  2. 0FY2025
  3. 296.7KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Smithsonian Institution$296.7K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$296.7K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. District of Columbia, DC$296.7K100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $296.7K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $296.7K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Smithsonian Institution$296.7K
    Smithsonian Institution · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. SERVICE, LOAN OF TRAVELING EXHIBITION - EXHIBITION FEE AND SHARED TOUR EXPENSES.$296.7K
    Smithsonian Institution· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Jul 13, 2026 – Jul 13, 2026· 33330226CF0010321

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, INC. received -$9,000 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1 actions (0 new awards). Its largest program was 45.301 · Museums for America (-$9,000).

Assistance · FY2026
-$9,000
New awards
0
Actions
1
Since FY2021
$3.7M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 2.3MFY2021
  2. 1.2MFY2022
  3. 35KFY2023
  4. 130KFY2024
  5. -9KFY2026

By type

  1. Grants-$9,0000.0%

Top programs

  1. 45.301 · Museums for America-$9,0000.0%

Largest awards

  1. THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, BOSTON WILL IMPLEMENT AN ARRAY OF OUT-OF-SCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR TEENS THAT ENGAGE YOUNG PEOPLE WITH ART AND…$121K
    45.301 · Museums for America· Institute of Museum and Library Services· Project grant· Jul 12, 2024 – Jul 14, 2026· MA-256299-OMS-24

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

1 company · $125K reported

  1. SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION, THE$125K
    NEW YORK, NY · 1 subaward

Primes that pay it

No prime reported paying it.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. PINK SPARROW SCENIC, LLC$323.1K
    BROOKLYN, NY · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSmithsonian Institution · Other professional, scientific, and technical services
  2. ARTIFACTUAL LLC$270K
    WASHINGTON, DC · 91% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSmithsonian Institution · Other professional, scientific, and technical services
  3. KATHERINE HARDY$262.2K+47% in FY2026
    WASHINGTON, DC · 88% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSmithsonian Institution · Other professional, scientific, and technical services

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Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.