Rankings
Top states by federal spending received: FY2020
FY2020 · complete year · data as of 2026-07-12
≈ computed · place of performance
California received more federal work than any other state in FY2020: $463.4B by place of performance. Ranked by where the work is performed, which the source reports reliably at state level. This is not the same as where a company is headquartered. Computed
Ranked from USASpending records. FY2020 to FY2026 are loaded.
Quick findings
Computed- The top 10 account for 49% of the $4.8T combined total of all 56 states and territories listed.
| Rank | Name | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | California333 recipients | $463.4B |
| 02 | Texas270 recipients | $321.4B |
| 03 | Pennsylvania173 recipients | $279.2B |
| 04 | Florida210 recipients | $277.9B |
| 05 | New York152 recipients | $263.7B |
| 06 | Indiana45 recipients | $186.2B |
| 07 | Minnesota42 recipients | $157B |
| 08 | Virginia292 recipients | $149.5B |
| 09 | Illinois154 recipients | $134B |
| 10 | South Carolina87 recipients | $134B |
| 11 | Ohio112 recipients | $127.2B |
| 12 | Wisconsin42 recipients | $126B |
| 13 | Kentucky53 recipients | $125.1B |
| 14 | Arizona104 recipients | $121B |
| 15 | Michigan82 recipients | $119.8B |
| 16 | Tennessee63 recipients | $109.7B |
| 17 | Georgia189 recipients | $105.7B |
| 18 | North Carolina146 recipients | $105.2B |
| 19 | Connecticut38 recipients | $103.7B |
| 20 | Maryland334 recipients | $103.3B |
| 21 | Massachusetts112 recipients | $101.4B |
| 22 | New Jersey94 recipients | $95B |
| 23 | North Dakota19 recipients | $91.5B |
| 24 | Washington105 recipients | $87.1B |
| 25 | Missouri88 recipients | $81.7B |
| 26 | Colorado133 recipients | $64.5B |
| 27 | Alabama104 recipients | $63.5B |
| 28 | Louisiana67 recipients | $57B |
| 29 | Oregon47 recipients | $52.5B |
| 30 | Puerto Rico37 recipients | $49.3B |
| 31 | Oklahoma69 recipients | $46.2B |
| 32 | District Of Columbia334 recipients | $43.6B |
| 33 | Mississippi48 recipients | $37.9B |
| 34 | Iowa42 recipients | $36B |
| 35 | New Mexico71 recipients | $35.9B |
| 36 | Arkansas43 recipients | $33.7B |
| 37 | Nevada51 recipients | $30.4B |
| 38 | Kansas31 recipients | $30.2B |
| 39 | Utah41 recipients | $26.9B |
| 40 | Nebraska32 recipients | $24.8B |
| 41 | West Virginia55 recipients | $23.4B |
| 42 | Idaho17 recipients | $20.8B |
| 43 | Maine21 recipients | $19.7B |
| 44 | Hawaii63 recipients | $19B |
| 45 | Alaska50 recipients | $16.7B |
| 46 | New Hampshire15 recipients | $16.4B |
| 47 | Rhode Island33 recipients | $15.1B |
| 48 | Montana30 recipients | $14.3B |
| 49 | South Dakota25 recipients | $13.1B |
| 50 | Delaware16 recipients | $12B |
| 51 | Vermont10 recipients | $9.3B |
| 52 | Wyoming16 recipients | $7.8B |
| 53 | Guam16 recipients | $3.2B |
| 54 | U.S. Virgin Islands6 recipients | $2.6B |
| 55 | Northern Mariana Islands2 recipients | $762.4M |
| 56 | American Samoa2 recipients | $580.7M |
Place of performance is from source at state level. Congressional-district figures are INFERRED from it and live on their own pages, labeled as such.
Questions
- Which state receives the most federal spending in FY2020?
- California, with $463.4B of federal work performed there in FY2020, ahead of Texas at $321.4B.
- Is this where the money is spent or where the company is based?
- Where the work is performed, as reported on each award. A contractor headquartered in one state routinely performs the work in several others.
- Where does this ranking come from?
- It is computed from USASpending.gov award records, which are U.S. government works and in the public domain. Each figure is the value of federal work performed in that state in FY2020. TheFiscalFinder does the ranking; the underlying figures are the government's own.
- How many states are shown?
- The top 56 for FY2020. Each row opens that state's own page, where the same money is broken out by year, by counterparty and by place.
- Does a high position mean anything is wrong?
- No. This is a description of where public money went in FY2020, computed from public records. It is not an allegation about anyone on it.
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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 Source; figures we calculate are Computed; links we infer (corporate parents, districts, similar contractors, connections between records) are Inferred, worded carefully, never asserted as fact and never a claim that one thing caused another. Spot an error? Tell us.