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Table 359. Estimated federal support for education, by type of ultimate recipient and agency: Fiscal year 2005

[In millions of dollars]
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                                                |          |         |          |         |  Degree-|        |          |
                                                |          |    Local|     State|    Post-| granting|        |  Multiple|
                                                |          |education| education|secondary|   insti-|        |  types of|
Agency                                          |     Total| agencies|  agencies| students|  tutions| Federal|recipients| Other\1\
________________________________________________|__________|_________|__________|_________|_________|________|__________|_________
1                                               |         2|        3|         4|        5|        6|       7|         8|        9
________________________________________________|__________|_________|__________|_________|_________|________|__________|_________
     Total\2\ ..................................|$199,249.7|$42,448.4|  $8,094.5|$42,582.8|$70,973.6|$4,772.3| $16,725.1|$13,652.7
                                                |__________|_________|__________|_________|_________|________|__________|_________
   Total program funds - on-budget .............| 141,788.2| 42,448.4|   6,415.6| 20,092.7| 46,317.0| 4,772.3|  16,725.1|  5,017.1
                                                |__________|_________|__________|_________|_________|________|__________|_________
Department of Education ........................|  71,013.4| 29,162.2|   4,824.7| 14,355.9| 14,978.1|   683.2|   2,962.1|  4,047.2
Department of Agriculture ......................|  13,808.3| 11,946.8|     608.2|       † |    697.7|    22.0|      88.0|    445.6
Department of Commerce .........................|     155.8|       † |        † |       † |    155.8|      † |        † |       †
Department of Defense ..........................|   5,500.0|    307.1|        † |    696.8|  2,419.5| 1,684.4|     392.3|       †
Department of Energy ...........................|   4,145.9|       † |        † |       † |  4,145.9|      † |        † |       †
Department of Health and Human Services ........|  25,922.7|    684.3|        † |  1,562.3| 16,943.8|   325.0|   6,407.3|       †
Department of Homeland Security ................|     226.1|     12.0|        † |     11.8|      8.4|   193.9|        † |       †
Department of Housing and Urban Development ....|       1.3|       † |        † |       † |      1.3|      † |        † |       †
Department of the Interior .....................|   1,332.8|    145.5|      98.0|     26.7|    202.9|   517.6|     342.0|       †
Department of Justice ..........................|     541.9|       † |        † |       † |     10.0|   531.9|        † |       †
Department of Labor ............................|   5,789.1|       † |     866.7|       † |     11.1|      † |   4,911.3|       †
Department of State ............................|     620.7|       † |        † |       † |       † |    92.5|     528.2|       †
Department of Transportation ...................|     124.8|       † |        † |       † |     57.9|    56.0|       0.9|     10.0
Department of Veterans Affairs .................|   3,137.3|       † |      18.0|  3,119.3|       † |      † |        † |       †
                                                |          |         |          |         |         |        |          |
Other agencies and programs                     |          |         |          |         |         |        |          |
                                                |          |         |          |         |         |        |          |
Agency for International Development ...........|     550.1|       † |        † |       † |     36.9|      † |        † |    513.2
Appalachian Regional Commission ................|       8.1|       † |        † |       † |      2.6|      † |       5.5|       †
Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in   |          |         |          |         |         |        |          |
   Education Foundation ........................|       5.0|       † |        † |       † |       † |      † |       5.0|       †
Corporation for National and Community Service .|     569.0|       † |        † |       † |       † |      † |     569.0|       †
Environmental Protection Agency ................|     175.2|       † |        † |       † |    175.2|      † |        † |       †
Estimated education share of federal aid to the |          |         |          |         |         |        |          |
   District of Columbia ........................|     210.5|    190.6|        † |       † |     17.8|      † |       2.2|       †
Harry S Truman scholarship fund ................|       3.0|       † |        † |       † |       † |      † |       3.0|       †
Institute of American Indian and Alaskan Native |          |         |          |         |         |        |          |
   Culture and Arts Development ................|       6.0|       † |        † |       † |       † |      † |       6.0|       †
Institute of Library and Museum Services .......|     290.0|       † |        † |       † |       † |      † |     290.0|       †
James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation ...|       2.0|       † |        † |       † |       † |      † |       2.0|       †
Japanese-United States Friendship Commission ...|       3.0|       † |        † |       † |       † |      † |       3.0|       †
Library of Congress ............................|     405.0|       † |        † |       † |       † |   405.0|        † |       †
National Aeronautics and Space Administration ..|   2,528.6|       † |        † |       † |  2,528.6|      † |        † |       †
National Archives and Records Administration ...|     260.0|       † |        † |       † |       † |   260.0|        † |       †
National Commission on Libraries and            |          |         |          |         |         |        |          |
   Information Science .........................|       1.0|       † |        † |       † |       † |      † |        † |      1.0
National Endowment for the Arts ................|      11.1|       † |        † |       † |       † |      † |      11.2|       †
National Endowment for the Humanities ..........|     119.3|       † |        † |       † |       † |      † |     119.3|       †
National Science Foundation ....................|   4,224.2|       † |        † |    319.8|  3,904.4|      † |        † |       †
Nuclear Regulatory Commission ..................|       8.6|       † |        † |       † |      8.6|      † |        † |       †
Smithsonian Institution ........................|      49.8|       † |        † |       † |       † |     0.8|      49.0|       †
U.S. Institute of Peace ........................|      28.0|       † |        † |       † |       † |      † |      28.0|       †
Other agencies .................................|      10.4|       † |        † |       † |     10.4|      † |        † |       †
                                                |__________|_________|__________|_________|_________|________|__________|_________
   Off-budget support and nonfederal funds      |          |         |          |         |         |        |          |
      generated by federal legislation .........|  57,461.0|       † |   1,678.9| 22,490.0| 24,656.5|      † |        † |  8,635.6
________________________________________________|__________|_________|__________|_________|_________|________|__________|_________
†Not applicable.
\1\Other recipients include American Indian tribes, private nonprofit agencies, and banks.
\2\Includes on-budget funds, off-budget support, and nonfederal funds generated by federal legislation. Excludes federal tax expenditures.
NOTE: Outlays by type of recipient are estimated based on obligation data. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Budget Service, unpublished tabulations. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, unpublished tabulations. U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the U.S. Government, Appendix, Fiscal Year 2006. National Science Foundation, Federal Funds for Research and Development, Fiscal Years 2003, 2004, and 2005. (This table was prepared November 2005.)


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