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Federal Communications Commission

Federal agency · top-tier · the money flowing out to recipients.
$6.3B
obligated · FY2025
36
recipients
80,249
awards
1
sub-agencies

Obligations by year

≈ computed
$13.3B
FY23
$15.7B
FY24
$6.3B
FY25
▼ 52%
since FY23

Where this money goes

✓ from source
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS C
TOP RECIPIENTS
Federal Communications Commission
$6.3B
FY2025 obligated
NE Colorado
$0.7B
Commnet Wireless,
$0.2B
Gogo Business
$0.2B
Im Telecom,
$0.1B
32 other recipients
$5.1B
band width = obligations · FY2025 · source: USASpending.gov

How it spends

≈ computed · awards by type
79,393direct payments
583contracts
239grants
34contract vehicles

What it funds

Supply Chain Reimbursement Program$2.7B
UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND - SCHOOLS and LIBRARIES$1.9B
Universal Service Fund - High Cost$1.2B
Universal Service Fund - Lifeline$748.6M
Universal Service Fund - Rural Health Care$112.1M
Other Computer Related Services$39.7M
Computer Systems Design Services$33.2M
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)$11.5M

Sub-agencies

Federal Communications Commission$6.3B

Largest awards

Usac Administrative Costs
awarded 2021$179.9M
Contract 273FCC18F0042
awarded 2018$77.5M

The agency’s biggest individual awards by total value, largest first.

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Why the labels? The graph is only worth anything if the links are trusted. Facts taken straight from a federal filing are ✓ from source; anything we compute or infer (corporate parents, districts, competitors) is ≈ inferred and worded carefully, never asserted as fact.