USAspending.gov · Award obligations by awarding agency, monthly, millions of dollars
How much money does each federal agency commit to awards each month?
The month ended : of the 64 lines, the change over a year was largest for Election Assistance Commission, up 4404.5%, and smallest for Gulf Coast Restoration Council, down 241.4%.
Federal award obligations, by awarding agency, ranked 1 to 8, each month
- Dept. of Health and Human Services389271.2-1511.9 to 413082.5
- Social Security Administration150628.677321.2 to 150628.6
- Department of Defense34190.613089.9 to 93614.7
- Department of Homeland Security7860.7491.8 to 41081.8
- Department of Veterans Affairs52983.54290.0 to 54586.4
- Department of Agriculture19937.7415.1 to 82332.7
- Department of Education21161.31076.6 to 89054.7
- Department of Transportation13397.1715.7 to 35342.2
Federal award obligations, by awarding agency, ranked 9 to 16, each month
- Housing and Urban Development995.8-525.2 to 18169.9
- Small Business Administration65.5-598.8 to 467089.2
- Department of Energy4074.7688.0 to 21883.5
- Department of the Treasury588.4-7483.3 to 275813.1
- NASA2130.7105.9 to 4433.2
- USAID-136.1-136.1 to 7936.5
- General Services Administration3150.1283.3 to 5780.2
- Department of State2410.7124.3 to 8640.4
Federal award obligations, by awarding agency, ranked 17 to 24, each month
- Department of Labor3592.9-82.5 to 4042.9
- Department of Justice1006.0167.5 to 5268.0
- Department of the Interior1889.94.2 to 4448.7
- Railroad Retirement Board1240.61014.5 to 1242.1
- Environmental Protection Agency1953.02.9 to 23220.4
- Department of Commerce644.6-16.6 to 9580.9
- National Science Foundation1857.60.0 to 2987.6
- Federal Communications Commission981.0-76.5 to 28490.8
Each row is one line of the page over the last ten years, one month to a point, on a scale of its own, with its newest value and its range printed beside it and a dashed line at zero. A gap is a month with no value. Pointing at the chart shows the month and the value.
Observed .
Right now
Over a year to July 2026, of the 64 lines on this page the change was largest for Election Assistance Commission, up 4404.5%, and smallest for Gulf Coast Restoration Council, down 241.4%.
Of these lines, 34 rose, 30 fell and 0 did not change over the year (ours, from the published values).
By lineOver a year, ours
Federal award obligations, by awarding agency, change over a year, by line
- Ranked 1 to 8
- Ranked 9 to 16
- Ranked 17 to 24
- Ranked 25 to 32
- Ranked 33 to 40
- Ranked 41 to 48
- Ranked 49 to 56
- Ranked 57 to 64
- Ranked 65 to 72
- Ranked 73 to 80
- Ranked 81 to 86
Each bar is the change in one line over a year, the largest first, with its rank at the left and its newest value under the figure. A line with its own page links it from its name. A change below zero runs to the left of the zero line. The colour says which section of the page a line is in.
Observed .
Federal award obligations, by awarding agency, change over a year in each month
| Line | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dept. of Health and Human Services | +5.8 | +4.7 | +30.8 | −68.0 | +147.9 | +4.6 | +7.9 | +6.0 | +9.2 | −32.3 | +156.0 | +27.2 |
| Social Security Administration | +7.3 | +7.9 | +10.9 | −0.1 | +11.3 | +7.6 | +7.2 | −3.3 | +5.2 | +1.8 | +7.8 | +9.5 |
| Department of Defense | +15.4 | +16.9 | −55.5 | −14.0 | +17.1 | +19.6 | −10.3 | +95.4 | +41.1 | +38.9 | +13.0 | −23.2 |
| Department of Homeland Security | −21.0 | +91.3 | −96.5 | −59.8 | +89.2 | −45.4 | +131.0 | +454.2 | −1.2 | +425.4 | +1,085.4 | +403.2 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | +20.0 | +0.9 | +82.8 | −74.7 | +82.3 | +5.3 | +0.2 | +34.8 | +19.6 | −35.4 | +119.9 | +82.3 |
| Department of Agriculture | +9.1 | +1.0 | −0.4 | −20.3 | −4.8 | −23.2 | +32.6 | +89.0 | +7.3 | +0.7 | −8.6 | −8.5 |
| Department of Education | −11.7 | +19.0 | −9.4 | +155.7 | −17.0 | −12.8 | +8.7 | +188.6 | −45.7 | +10.7 | +10.9 | −3.1 |
| Department of Transportation | +28.6 | −15.2 | −67.2 | −71.5 | −57.6 | +42.1 | +43.5 | +99.9 | +18.1 | −14.8 | +24.1 | +36.5 |
| Housing and Urban Development | +21.6 | +40.8 | +110.5 | −88.8 | +107.0 | −75.2 | – | +230.6 | +28.5 | −8.5 | −88.5 | −58.1 |
| Small Business Administration | −372.5 | −19.5 | −81.2 | −87.1 | −95.0 | −92.7 | −99.1 | −93.4 | −99.2 | −103.1 | −201.0 | +37.2 |
| Department of Energy | −38.4 | −27.4 | −81.8 | +455.5 | −83.0 | −93.4 | +831.7 | +66.5 | +82.9 | −73.4 | −2.8 | +14.5 |
| Department of the Treasury | −49.8 | −23.1 | −59.7 | −64.3 | −28.6 | −65.5 | +9.3 | −61.0 | +10.9 | +15.8 | +8.1 | +9.4 |
| NASA | +2.1 | +51.9 | −92.8 | +77.9 | −0.2 | +17.5 | −18.4 | −3.4 | +20.9 | +36.1 | +35.9 | −18.3 |
| USAID | −86.1 | −88.2 | −100.2 | −95.4 | −84.5 | −80.4 | +114.5 | +159.1 | −41.1 | −26.6 | −94.9 | −134.3 |
| General Services Administration | −19.7 | −24.6 | −23.1 | −28.6 | +13.6 | +50.1 | −3.2 | −3.7 | +51.9 | +29.5 | +42.9 | +37.7 |
| Department of State | −53.6 | −46.9 | −49.0 | −37.2 | −47.9 | −15.3 | +274.6 | +46.8 | +19.7 | +172.1 | +139.9 | +175.6 |
| Department of Labor | +60.5 | +234.1 | +31.7 | −53.6 | +358.1 | −97.5 | +10.7 | +211,916.7 | +3,052.3 | −149.3 | −7.3 | +114.6 |
| Department of Justice | −36.6 | −35.4 | +4.9 | −79.7 | +93.1 | −44.1 | +63.8 | +356.2 | +71.4 | −13.1 | +13.4 | +11.1 |
| Department of the Interior | −27.3 | −18.9 | +8,096.5 | −47.3 | −50.7 | −57.6 | +56.4 | +21.8 | +108.9 | +5.0 | −2.5 | +1.4 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | +1.2 | +1.9 | +1.6 | +1.5 | +1.6 | +1.2 | +2.3 | +1.8 | +1.9 | +2.4 | +1.5 | +0.7 |
| Environmental Protection Agency | −78.0 | −30.5 | −94.3 | −82.7 | −91.3 | −72.2 | +482.8 | +214.0 | +7.2 | +80.1 | +207.5 | −31.7 |
| Department of Commerce | −89.3 | −80.6 | −100.2 | −97.2 | −94.6 | −72.6 | −32.3 | +176.0 | +8.0 | +57.0 | +18.7 | +9.0 |
| National Science Foundation | +21.9 | +20.9 | −100.0 | −96.2 | −54.0 | +25.9 | −72.0 | −55.8 | +76.6 | +115.1 | −22.7 | +0.4 |
| Federal Communications Commission | −39.9 | +101.9 | +1,136.2 | +673.1 | −19.8 | +46.7 | +350.7 | – | −89.4 | – | +291.6 | −41.1 |
Each chip is one month's change from the same month a year earlier. The mark in its middle is zero: a fill to the right of it is a rise and a fill to the left a fall. A longer, brighter fill is a larger change, in five steps up to 156.0 and over. Every chip prints its figure and sign. A dash is a month with no figure.
Observed .
Understanding federal awards by agency
Where it stands today
The largest change over a year was Election Assistance Commission, up 4404.5%, in July 2026.
What do the lines of this page measure?
These are the awards that federal agencies committed to each month: contracts, grants, loans, direct payments and other awards, by the agency that made them. The Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service publishes the figures on USAspending.gov, by the month of the award action. USAspending calls the amounts obligations.
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The agencies are grouped in eights by their total awards since October 2007, largest first. The agencies with a page of their own, with the history since their first award, are those that had awards in at least 60 months, one of them in the twelve months before this list was drawn up; the others are lines here. An agency with no award in any month this page covers is not listed (the limits say how many). The awards of the whole government by type are on the federal award obligations by type page.
What 500metrics adds: the change over a year of every line, ranked across the page, and the last ten years of the three sections with the largest totals as rows of small charts; and a table of the change over a year in each of the last twelve months for the same lines.
The numbers behind the chart
What is the latest value of each line?86 lines, in the sections of the page
| Line | Section | Month | Value | Change over a year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dept. of Health and Human Services | Ranked 1 to 8 | $389,271.2 million | +27.2% | 24 | |
| Social Security Administration | Ranked 1 to 8 | $150,628.6 million | +9.5% | 28 | |
| Department of Defense | Ranked 1 to 8 | $34,190.6 million | −23.2% | 40 | |
| Department of Homeland Security | Ranked 1 to 8 | $7,860.7 million | +403.2% | 5 | |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | Ranked 1 to 8 | $52,983.5 million | +82.3% | 16 | |
| Department of Agriculture | Ranked 1 to 8 | $19,937.7 million | −8.5% | 37 | |
| Department of Education | Ranked 1 to 8 | $21,161.3 million | −3.1% | 36 | |
| Department of Transportation | Ranked 1 to 8 | $13,397.1 million | +36.5% | 20 | |
| Housing and Urban Development | Ranked 9 to 16 | $995.8 million | −58.1% | 51 | |
| Small Business Administration | Ranked 9 to 16 | $65.5 million | +37.2% | 19 | |
| Department of Energy | Ranked 9 to 16 | $4,074.7 million | +14.5% | 26 | |
| Department of the Treasury | Ranked 9 to 16 | $588.4 million | +9.4% | 29 | |
| NASA | Ranked 9 to 16 | $2,130.7 million | −18.3% | 39 | |
| USAID | Ranked 9 to 16 | $−136.1 million | −134.3% | 63 | |
| General Services Administration | Ranked 9 to 16 | $3,150.1 million | +37.7% | 18 | |
| Department of State | Ranked 9 to 16 | $2,410.7 million | +175.6% | 11 | |
| Department of Labor | Ranked 17 to 24 | $3,592.9 million | +114.6% | 13 | |
| Department of Justice | Ranked 17 to 24 | $1,006.0 million | +11.1% | 27 | |
| Department of the Interior | Ranked 17 to 24 | $1,889.9 million | +1.4% | 32 | |
| Railroad Retirement Board | Ranked 17 to 24 | $1,240.6 million | +0.7% | 33 | |
| Environmental Protection Agency | Ranked 17 to 24 | $1,953.0 million | −31.7% | 44 | |
| Department of Commerce | Ranked 17 to 24 | $644.6 million | +9.0% | 30 | |
| National Science Foundation | Ranked 17 to 24 | $1,857.6 million | +0.4% | 34 | |
| Federal Communications Commission | Ranked 17 to 24 | $981.0 million | −41.1% | 46 | |
| Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. | Ranked 25 to 32 | $109.9 million | −73.4% | 53 | |
| Export-Import Bank | Ranked 25 to 32 | $4.6 million | n/a | n/a | |
| Office of Personnel Management | Ranked 25 to 32 | $0.0 million | −100.1% | 61 | |
| National and Community Service | Ranked 25 to 32 | $284.4 million | −0.4% | 35 | |
| Millennium Challenge Corporation | Ranked 25 to 32 | $1.0 million | −99.5% | 56 | |
| Securities and Exchange Commission | Ranked 25 to 32 | $49.8 million | +18.6% | 25 | |
| U.S. Agency for Global Media | Ranked 25 to 32 | $71.6 million | +32.7% | 22 | |
| U.S. Development Finance Corp. | Ranked 25 to 32 | $18.9 million | n/a | n/a | |
| Executive Office of the President | Ranked 33 to 40 | $270.6 million | +2973.1% | 2 | |
| IMLS | Ranked 33 to 40 | $32.4 million | n/a | n/a | |
| Nuclear Regulatory Commission | Ranked 33 to 40 | $22.8 million | −28.7% | 43 | |
| National Archives | Ranked 33 to 40 | $16.3 million | −42.6% | 47 | |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Ranked 33 to 40 | $38.4 million | +32.6% | 23 | |
| NEH | Ranked 33 to 40 | $7.2 million | +84.6% | 14 | |
| Peace Corps | Ranked 33 to 40 | $15.6 million | +190.2% | 9 | |
| Election Assistance Commission | Ranked 33 to 40 | $2.5 million | +4404.5% | 1 | |
| Appalachian Regional Commission | Ranked 41 to 48 | $0.0 million | −100.0% | 57 | |
| Overseas Private Investment Corp. | Ranked 41 to 48 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| Federal Trade Commission | Ranked 41 to 48 | $14.6 million | −28.4% | 42 | |
| Government Accountability Office | Ranked 41 to 48 | $13.4 million | −48.7% | 48 | |
| CFPB | Ranked 41 to 48 | $7.4 million | +45.7% | 17 | |
| Surface Transportation Board | Ranked 41 to 48 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| Gulf Coast Restoration Council | Ranked 41 to 48 | $−1.8 million | −241.4% | 64 | |
| CFTC | Ranked 41 to 48 | $8.2 million | +83.7% | 15 | |
| EEOC | Ranked 49 to 56 | $3.4 million | −52.3% | 49 | |
| Court Services (CSOSA) | Ranked 49 to 56 | $4.6 million | −11.1% | 38 | |
| Consumer Product Safety Commission | Ranked 49 to 56 | $2.9 million | −26.6% | 41 | |
| Denali Commission | Ranked 49 to 56 | $17.1 million | +274.3% | 6 | |
| National Labor Relations Board | Ranked 49 to 56 | $6.3 million | +1167.9% | 3 | |
| Delta Regional Authority | Ranked 49 to 56 | $0.0 million | −100.0% | 57 | |
| District of Columbia Courts | Ranked 49 to 56 | $4.4 million | −36.0% | 45 | |
| U.S. Trade and Development Agency | Ranked 49 to 56 | $0.3 million | +158.2% | 12 | |
| NTSB | Ranked 57 to 64 | $1.5 million | +252.8% | 7 | |
| Federal Election Commission | Ranked 57 to 64 | $3.5 million | +35.2% | 21 | |
| African Development Foundation | Ranked 57 to 64 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| International Trade Commission | Ranked 57 to 64 | $−0.6 million | −132.0% | 62 | |
| Kennedy Center | Ranked 57 to 64 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| Inter-American Foundation | Ranked 57 to 64 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| DNFSB | Ranked 57 to 64 | $0.3 million | −79.9% | 54 | |
| Merit Systems Protection Board | Ranked 57 to 64 | $0.2 million | −63.2% | 52 | |
| FMCS | Ranked 65 to 72 | $0.2 million | +237.1% | 8 | |
| Selective Service System | Ranked 65 to 72 | $0.3 million | −55.4% | 50 | |
| Federal Maritime Commission | Ranked 65 to 72 | $2.9 million | n/a | n/a | |
| NCUA | Ranked 65 to 72 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| Council of Inspectors General | Ranked 65 to 72 | $1.4 million | +180.4% | 10 | |
| Federal Labor Relations Authority | Ranked 65 to 72 | $0.2 million | +7.4% | 31 | |
| AbilityOne Commission | Ranked 65 to 72 | $0.0 million | −95.1% | 55 | |
| U.S. Chemical Safety Board | Ranked 65 to 72 | $0.6 million | +523.7% | 4 | |
| FMSHRC | Ranked 73 to 80 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| OSHRC | Ranked 73 to 80 | $0.0 million | −100.0% | 57 | |
| National Capital Planning Comm. | Ranked 73 to 80 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| National Mediation Board | Ranked 73 to 80 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| Udall Foundation | Ranked 73 to 80 | $0.0 million | −100.0% | 57 | |
| Armed Forces Retirement Home | Ranked 73 to 80 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission | Ranked 73 to 80 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| Administrative Conference | Ranked 73 to 80 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| Office of Special Counsel | Ranked 81 to 86 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| American Battle Monuments Comm. | Ranked 81 to 86 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| Marine Mammal Commission | Ranked 81 to 86 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| Vietnam Education Foundation | Ranked 81 to 86 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| Nuclear Waste Tech. Review Board | Ranked 81 to 86 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a | |
| Corps of Engineers, Civil Works | Ranked 81 to 86 | $0.0 million | n/a | n/a |
The table scrolls sideways; the first column stays in place.
What do these figures leave out, and how are they cited?Limits, dates and how to cite
What this number cannot tell you
- An obligation is a promise to pay, not a payment. The money can be paid weeks, months or years later, or not in full. The values are in millions of dollars. A line that falls to zero in a month made no award that month.
- The Department of Defense, whose awards include those of the Army Corps of Engineers, files its awards about 90 days after the action. So that every agency's month is whole, the page stops at the last month that ended at least 90 days before USAspending's latest data date. Agencies also correct their awards for weeks.
- The lines are of very different size and a month is not a year: one large award in a month moves a line a great deal. The change over a year compares a month with the same month a year earlier and is ours, worked out from the stored values; a line with no award or a negative total a year earlier has no change.
- Awards are filed under the agency that makes them, so the agencies do not add up to the spending of any one program. The page names no recipient of an award.
- 25 agencies on USAspending's list have no award in any month this page covers, so they have no page and no line on this page.
Observed . Checked .
How to cite this
USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Award obligations by awarding agency, monthly, millions of dollars, through July 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "How much money does each federal agency commit to awards each month?", https://500metrics.com/federal-awards-by-agency.
Can the data be downloaded?federal-awards-by-agency.csv
Download the last ten years of the lines in the charts, and the newest month of the others, as CSV: 2,966 rows, to , 194,736 bytes.
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