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USAspending.gov, agency code 091 · Award obligations of Department of Education, monthly, millions of dollars

How much money did the Department of Education commit to awards each month?

The money committed to awards by the Department of Education was $21,161.3 million in the month ended , down 3.1% from a year earlier.

Federal award obligations of the Department of Education, not seasonally adjusted, each month

October 2007 to July 2026Not seasonally adjusted, as published

Federal award obligations of the Department of Education, not seasonally adjusted, each month (October 2007 to July 2026), recessions shaded
Federal award obligations of the Department of Education, not seasonally adjusted, each month (July 2016 to July 2026), recessions shaded
Federal award obligations of the Department of Education, not seasonally adjusted, each month (July 2024 to July 2026)

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to .

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .

Federal award obligations of the Department of Education, change from a year earlier, each month (ours)

October 2007 to July 2026Ours, from the published values

Federal award obligations of the Department of Education, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (October 2007 to July 2026), recessions shaded
Federal award obligations of the Department of Education, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (July 2016 to July 2026), recessions shaded
Federal award obligations of the Department of Education, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (July 2024 to July 2026)

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to .

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .

Each point is one month of the series as the source publishes it, or a change worked out from those values (ours). The US recessions are shaded. Pointing at the chart shows the month and the value.

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MeasureLatestThe month beforeA year earlierFive years earlierTen years earlier
Month
Federal award obligations of the Department of Education$21,161.3 million$2,354.5 million$21,841.7 million$34,152.8 million$14,565.4 million
Change over a year−3.1%+10.9%−3.3%+93.8%+6.9%

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Observed .

Right now

The money committed to awards by the Department of Education was $21,161.3 million in July 2026, the highest since October 2025.

Over a year it is down 3.1% (ours).

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ChangeOurs

PeriodThenChange
One month$2,354.5 million in +798.7%
Three months$3,708.9 million in +470.5%
Twelve months$21,841.7 million in −3.1%
Five years$34,152.8 million in −38.0%
Ten years$14,565.4 million in +45.3%

In historyOurs

The money committed to awards by the Department of Education of $21,161.3 million in was higher than in 199 of the 225 other months since , the same in 0 and lower in 26.

Highest since : $89,054.7 million in . Lowest since : $581.6 million in .

AverageOurs

Average since : $8,127.20 million (ours, a plain mean of the 226 months).

ComparedOurs

Over a year the money committed to awards by the Department of Education is down 3.1%, which ranks 6 of the 8 rows of the table, where 1 is the largest change.

The table sets the money committed to awards by the Department of Education beside the agencies in its group on the federal award obligations by agency page, by the change over a year in each one's newest month.

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Understanding the money committed to awards by the Department of Education

Where it stands today

The money committed to awards by the Department of Education was $21,161.3 million in July 2026.

What does the money committed to awards by the Department of Education measure?

This is the money the Department of Education committed to awards each month: the contracts, grants, loans, direct payments and other awards it signed or approved. The Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service publishes the figures on USAspending.gov, by the awarding agency and by the month of the award action. USAspending calls the amounts obligations.

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What 500metrics adds: the change over one month, three months, a year and five years, the highest and lowest value since the series begins, how the change over a year ranks among the agencies in its group on the federal award obligations by agency page, and the history in one chart and one file.

The numbers behind the chart

What was the money committed to awards by the Department of Education in each month?The last ten years, 120 months, newest first; the chart and the file have every month since Oct 2007
Federal award obligations of the Department of Education, not seasonally adjusted, by month, newest first (Millions of dollars; the change ours)
MonthValueChange over a year
$21,161.3 million−3.1%
$2,354.5 million+10.9%
$2,284.3 million+10.7%
$3,708.9 million−45.7%
$6,111.2 million+188.6%
$4,635.8 million+8.7%
$8,644.2 million−12.8%
$2,042.4 million−17.0%
$3,167.9 million+155.7%
$24,245.4 million−9.4%
$9,990.1 million+19.0%
$6,408.7 million−11.7%
$21,841.7 million−3.3%
$2,122.9 million−9.2%
$2,062.7 million−56.0%
$6,829.0 million+368.4%
$2,117.6 million−55.7%
$4,263.0 million+14.9%
$9,914.1 million+35.3%
$2,461.2 million+7.6%
$1,239.1 million−45.6%
$26,770.1 million+6.2%
$8,391.8 million+22.6%
$7,258.5 million+7.6%
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MonthValueChange over a year
$22,589.1 million+0.2%
$2,338.3 million−1.4%
$4,691.3 million+98.8%
$1,457.9 million+3.7%
$4,775.6 million+8.9%
$3,709.0 million−44.4%
$7,324.9 million+19.1%
$2,287.3 million+84.6%
$2,279.0 million+111.7%
$25,200.5 million+0.9%
$6,843.0 million−13.6%
$6,743.7 million−2.6%
$22,536.1 million+14.6%
$2,371.1 million+34.6%
$2,359.7 million+19.9%
$1,406.4 million−55.4%
$4,386.3 million+12.3%
$6,673.8 million+97.2%
$6,148.2 million−4.7%
$1,239.3 million−77.3%
$1,076.6 million−87.4%
$24,968.6 million−16.3%
$7,923.2 million−22.4%
$6,920.9 million−65.5%
$19,656.5 million−42.4%
$1,761.5 million−75.7%
$1,967.7 million−93.8%
$3,155.8 million+9.2%
$3,906.9 million−95.6%
$3,383.5 million−75.0%
$6,451.9 million−91.5%
$5,467.8 million+347.3%
$8,539.7 million+270.2%
$29,840.1 million+22.5%
$10,216.8 million+44.3%
$20,051.9 million+206.5%
$34,152.8 million+93.8%
$7,248.2 million+80.2%
$31,843.3 million+55.5%
$2,890.5 million−68.1%
$89,054.7 million+2096.5%
$13,522.2 million+270.2%
$76,187.7 million+644.4%
$1,222.3 million−13.3%
$2,306.8 million+106.1%
$24,364.9 million−2.7%
$7,082.6 million−5.0%
$6,542.5 million+24.9%
$17,627.1 million+5.4%
$4,022.9 million+102.3%
$20,474.3 million+913.8%
$9,058.7 million+158.8%
$4,054.5 million+91.2%
$3,652.4 million+1.5%
$10,234.1 million+49.1%
$1,409.9 million+10.8%
$1,119.1 million−39.5%
$25,050.7 million−9.4%
$7,458.4 million+8.5%
$5,239.5 million−29.9%
$16,717.2 million+4.9%
$1,989.0 million+33.8%
$2,019.6 million+15.5%
$3,500.5 million−32.5%
$2,120.8 million+1.2%
$3,600.0 million−7.9%
$6,863.8 million−7.9%
$1,272.8 million+16.4%
$1,850.7 million+53.0%
$27,662.7 million+10.1%
$6,875.7 million−3.9%
$7,473.8 million+16.0%
$15,943.8 million+13.9%
$1,486.5 million+0.8%
$1,748.0 million−51.0%
$5,184.7 million+365.9%
$2,094.9 million+24.8%
$3,910.7 million+14.7%
$7,451.2 million+21.0%
$1,093.1 million−60.9%
$1,209.8 million−17.5%
$25,130.0 million−2.2%
$7,157.4 million+5.6%
$6,442.2 million+4.3%
$13,995.8 million−3.9%
$1,474.0 million+10.0%
$3,568.3 million+220.6%
$1,112.9 million−28.9%
$1,679.0 million−54.2%
$3,409.4 million−16.5%
$6,159.9 million−32.8%
$2,798.1 million+83.9%
$1,467.2 million−27.1%
$25,698.9 million+3.7%
$6,778.5 million−8.1%
$6,174.9 million+14.6%
How does it compare with the agencies in its group on the federal award obligations by agency page?Ranked by the change over a year
Federal award obligations of the Department of Education beside the agencies in its group on the federal award obligations by agency page, newest month of each, by the change over a year (ours); equal changes share a rank
SeriesMonthValueChange over a yearRank
Department of Homeland Security$7,860.7 million+403.2%1
Department of Veterans Affairs$52,983.5 million+82.3%2
Department of Transportation$13,397.1 million+36.5%3
Dept. of Health and Human Services$389,271.2 million+27.2%4
Social Security Administration$150,628.6 million+9.5%5
Department of Education$21,161.3 million−3.1%6
Department of Agriculture$19,937.7 million−8.5%7
Department of Defense$34,190.6 million−23.2%8

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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. An agency obligates money when it signs a contract, makes a grant or a loan, or sets up a direct payment; the money can be paid weeks, months or years later, or not in full. This page counts the promises made by the Department of Education, by the month of the award action.
  • 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, this 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, so the newest months can change a little, and a month can be below zero when more money is cancelled than is awarded.
  • The figures are the awards USAspending.gov holds: contracts, grants, loans, direct payments and other awards. Loans are counted as USAspending counts them, by their cost to the government. Spending that is not an award, such as the pay of the agency's own staff, is not in them.
  • An award is filed under the agency that makes it, not under the agency that spends the money or the place it goes to. USAspending's fiscal years run from October to September; this page uses the calendar months.
  • The values are in millions of dollars and are shown to one decimal; the change over a year compares a month with the same month a year earlier. The changes, the ranks and the highest and lowest values are ours, worked out from the stored values.

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How to cite this

USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Award obligations of Department of Education, monthly, millions of dollars, through July 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "How much money did the Department of Education commit to awards each month?", https://500metrics.com/federal-awards-by-agency/department-of-education.

Can the data be downloaded?federal-awards-by-agency-department-of-education.csv

Download the full history as CSV: 226 rows, to , 5,736 bytes.

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Recession dates from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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