Where does my tax money go?
Federal agencies obligate hundreds of billions of dollars every year in contracts, grants, and other awards. This page follows the trail for FY2025: the agencies that spend it, the contractors and industries that receive it, and the states where the work lands. Every figure links to the full record.≈ computed
Not sure where to start? See the top federal contractors, or browse every agency and every state.
Federal agencies
The departments and agencies that obligate the money, across contracts and assistance.
- 1Department of Health and Human Services$2T
- 2Social Security Administration$1.6T
- 3Department of Defense$501.5B
- 4Department of Veterans Affairs$288B
- 5Department of Agriculture$185.3B
- 6Department of Transportation$134.9B
Top federal contractors
The biggest holders of federal contracts, ranked by contract-coded obligations.
- 1Lockheed Martin Corporation$75.1B
- 2General Dynamics Corporation$33.2B
- 3RTX Corporation$28.9B
- 4UnitedHealth Group$25.3B
- 5The Boeing Company$22B
- 6Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.$10.4B
Industries
The industry categories (NAICS) the contract money flows into.
- 1Aircraft Manufacturing$61.2B
- 2Engineering Services$52.3B
- 3Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)$48.4B
- 4Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers$47.6B
- 5Facilities Support Services$38.3B
- 6Ship Building and Repairing$37.2B
States
Where the work is performed, by state. Place of performance is reliable at the state level.
- 1California$485.6B
- 2Florida$325.1B
- 3Texas$311.4B
- 4Pennsylvania$281.6B
- 5New York$262.2B
- 6Minnesota$242.1B
These are the largest lines, computed by us from USASpending source records; they describe where the money goes, never a judgment about any agency or recipient. For how the data is sourced and labeled, see the methodology.