Instituto Hondureno De Cultura Interamericana

Instituto Hondureño De Cultura Interamericana (IHCI), a non-profit educational institution headquartered in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering English-language instruction, educational exchange programming, and civic-engagement activities to the Department of State as a prime recipient across multiple grant programs. IHCI operates exclusively as a grant recipient with no federal contract prime or subcontract footprint; all 39 recent federal awards are project grants issued by the Department of State.

IHCI's customer concentration is tightly held within State Department cultural and educational bureaus. The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs accounts for 19 awards (67% of the award count), anchoring IHCI's portfolio with EducationUSA programming and American Spaces support funds. The Department of State Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs issued 5 awards, including a robotics-for-beginners initiative in public schools across Comayaguela, Tegucigalpa, and Comayagua, and supplemental programs focused on transparency, participation, accountability, and irregular migration. The Bureau of Public Affairs accounted for 2 additional awards. These three State bureaus represent 67% of all recent awards in the dataset.

The work centers on English-language education, entrepreneurship training, and educational exchange support anchored to Honduras. Representative grant work includes a FY26 EducationUSA support grant (award date February 2, 2026, completion date June 30, 2027) to support educational exchange activities aligned with State Department priorities; a FY25 American Spaces support grant (award date July 18, 2025, completion date December 31, 2026) to promote English learning and job creation; a robotics-for-beginners program for public schools (award date September 12, 2024, completion date October 31, 2026) under Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; and a FY24 EducationUSA activities grant (award date March 22, 2024, completion date June 30, 2025). IHCI has received recurring annual EducationUSA and American Spaces grants dating to 2022, reflecting sustained State Department engagement in Honduras-based educational programming.

Combined dollars obligated across all 39 awards total $514 thousand, indicating modest annual award values typical of discrete country-specific cultural and educational grants. Activity has been sparse and episodic — 2 awards in 2022, 1 in 2023, 3 in 2024, 2 in 2025, and 1 in 2026 — with five awards carrying ultimate completion dates inside the next twenty-four months and thus facing recompete. IHCI holds no seat on federal contract vehicles, receives no contract prime awards, and maintains no subcontract relationships; its footprint is grant-only and State Department–specific.