John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Six awards, not a season calendar

The Kennedy Center’s public identity is performances, tours, and education programs on the Potomac. USAspending does not count ticketed events. It records awards the Center made that entered the federal warehouse. $15,472,762.68 through FY2026 is that obligation stock, and it is carried on only 6 awards. Dividing $15,472,762.68 by 6 yields about $2,578,794 per award—a high mean on a six-row book.

A six-row book is fragile as a summary. One modification, one closeout, or one newly reported vehicle can swing the agency total more than a thousand small grants would at an endowment. Readers who need vendor names have a short list to open on USAspending.gov; this roll-up will not hide them among hundreds of instruments.

What $15.5 million does not capture

The Center’s financing historically mixes federal appropriations with ticket revenue, gifts, and other non-award funds. This packet does not split those sources. Private sponsorships that never become federal awards will not appear among the 6 rows. Federal employee or resident-company pay that never becomes an award will not appear either. The $15,472,762.68 is complete as a USAspending awarding-agency total for CGAC 3301; it is incomplete as an audited picture of the Center’s operations.

Outlays are unpublished. A large facilities or systems instrument can sit as an obligation before invoices are paid. Treat the figure as commitments, not as cash already spent on a renovation or a season.

Questions

How much has the Kennedy Center obligated on USAspending?

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts shows $15,472,762.68 in obligations through FY2026 across 6 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 3301 is the filter. The total is not ticket revenue and not a count of performances. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 3301 is the source for the current 6-award book.

Why are there only 6 Kennedy Center awards?

The extract counts 6 instruments for CGAC 3301. Dividing $15,472,762.68 by that count yields about $2,578,794 per award. Concentration in a few large vehicles is the structure of this book. The packet has no median and no award IDs. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What is agency code 3301?

3301 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/3301/. Other cultural agencies use different codes. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Does $15.5 million include private donations?

Only if those funds were issued as federal awards in the USAspending extract. Gifts that never become federal awards are outside the 6-row total. The packet does not split appropriated versus private dollars. Outlays are unpublished. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.