Agencies by grant vs contract mix
≈ computed · assistance shareFederal agencies ranked by how much of their money is ASSISTANCE rather than procurement. A contract buys something for the government; a grant, loan or direct payment funds someone else to do something. The split is the fastest way to understand what an agency actually is: the Department of Defense is a buyer, Health and Human Services is overwhelmingly a funder, and the Department of Energy is close to both at once. ≈ computed
- 1Social Security Administration$1.6T assistance vs $1.4B contracts100% grants
- 2Railroad Retirement Board$14.5B assistance vs $40.4M contracts100% grants
- 3Department of Housing and Urban Development$81.4B assistance vs $603.5M contracts99% grants
- 4Department of Health and Human Services$1.9T assistance vs $20.8B contracts99% grants
- 5Federal Communications Commission$6.7B assistance vs $111.2M contracts98% grants
- 6Department of Education$85.1B assistance vs $2.5B contracts97% grants
- 7Department of Agriculture$159B assistance vs $5.4B contracts97% grants
- 8Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation$6.3B assistance vs $268.6M contracts96% grants
- 9Department of Transportation$116.4B assistance vs $6B contracts95% grants
- 10Environmental Protection Agency$23.1B assistance vs $1.5B contracts94% grants
- 11National Science Foundation$8.1B assistance vs $685.3M contracts92% grants
- 12Small Business Administration$1.4B assistance vs $117.6M contracts92% grants
- 13Department of Commerce$19.6B assistance vs $3B contracts87% grants
- 14Department of Labor$8.9B assistance vs $1.6B contracts85% grants
- 15Department of Veterans Affairs$207B assistance vs $65.4B contracts76% grants
- 16Department of Homeland Security$44.5B assistance vs $19.4B contracts70% grants
- 17Agency for International Development$8.4B assistance vs $3.9B contracts68% grants
- 18Department of the Interior$6.7B assistance vs $4.2B contracts61% grants
- 19Department of Energy$29.2B assistance vs $46.3B contracts39% grants
- 20Department of State$3.5B assistance vs $6.8B contracts34% grants
- 21Department of Justice$2.3B assistance vs $5.5B contracts29% grants
- 22Department of the Treasury$702.8M assistance vs $6.5B contracts10% grants
- 23National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1.5B assistance vs $18.4B contracts8% grants
- 24Department of Defense$8B assistance vs $280.6B contracts3% grants
- 25General Services Administration$0 assistance vs $18.3B contracts0% grants
Contract dollars are the agency totals coded to a NAICS industry; assistance dollars are those coded to a CFDA assistance program. Both codings are from source. Agencies below $1B in coded totals are excluded, and the coded breakdown does not exist for every loaded year.
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