State · NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY — $315.0M (USA)
Key claim: The Department of State obligated $315.0 million in core funding to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in the USA to support NED’s worldwide democracy projects under the NED Act.
Abstract
Department of State obligated $315.0M to NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY, for work in USA. THIS CORE FUNDING WILL SUPPORT THE NED 'S WORLDWIDE PROJECTS PER THE NED ACT.
Why this matters
The $315.0M State-to-NED obligation is the top-of-funnel figure for U.S. democracy promotion, dwarfing individual country portfolios (Russia $14.9M, Ukraine $12.5M, Burma $9.6M) and confirming State as the primary upstream funder in the NED pass-through chain. Anchoring this appropriation makes the arithmetic gap between core funding and traceable onward grants visible, framing how much of the NED spend remains opaque at the sub-grantee level.