Inter-American Foundation (IAF)

Reading the Inter-American Foundation Spending Record

USAspending.gov records show Inter-American Foundation (IAF) with $13541.1B in total contract obligations against $46.3M in budget authority. These two numbers answer different questions: budget authority is the legal ceiling Congress granted the agency to enter into obligations, while obligations are the binding commitments actually made through contracts, grants, and interagency agreements. The gap between the two — money authorized but not yet obligated — signals execution pace, procurement backlogs, or strategic holds on funds awaiting scope clarification. Agency code 164 is the unique Treasury Account Symbol prefix used to tie every transaction on this page back to the originating appropriation.

The contractor profile reflects prime awards only, not subcontractor flow-down. A prime contractor may subcontract 60–80% of a task order's value to specialist firms that never appear in agency-level summaries. For defense, IT modernization, and professional-services agencies, this means the apparent concentration of awards among large primes understates the true diversity of firms performing the work. Obligations are also cumulative across the fiscal years covered by the dataset, so year-over-year changes in agency spending cannot be read directly from the total figure — they require slicing by fiscal year of obligation date.

For oversight analysts, the practical layer under $13541.1B is traceability: every dollar ties back to a specific Procurement Instrument Identifier (PIID) on a specific contract, which in turn links to a Statement of Work, a funding appropriation, and a responsible contracting officer. When the obligations total looks anomalous — unusually large year-end spikes, concentration in a single contractor, or divergence from mission scope — the underlying PIIDs on USAspending.gov expose the transactions that generated the total. The figures on this page are aggregates; the story is in the individual awards.

Total Obligations, Budget Authority & Grants

This page focuses on Inter-American Foundation's prime contract awards and top contractors. For the broader spending profile — total obligations, congressional budget authority, utilization rate, and the contracts-vs-grants-vs-loans breakdown — see the parallel agency profile on PlainSpending. The two views draw from the same USAspending.gov dataset but answer different questions: who got the contracts here, how much was authorized and obligated overall there.

View total obligations, budget authority, and grant breakdown for Inter-American Foundation on PlainSpending →