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Description: Intergroup contact is robustly associated with lower prejudice. However, nearly all contact research to date has examined a narrow range of groups, raising the possibility that its effects are restricted to only some types of groups. Across two studies (total N = 2163), we tested whether the contact-prejudice relationship was identical for a broad sample of groups (k = 80), whether group properties moderated this relationship, and whether the relationship depended on the type of intergroup contact. Results indicate that contact was consistently associated with lower prejudice across all groups, group properties, and measures of contact. Together, our results broadly support intergroup contact theory: contact is negatively associated with prejudice across groups with a wide array of distinct group properties.