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Digest of Education Statistics: 2008
Digest of Education Statistics: 2008

NCES 2009-020
March 2009


Table 376. Estimated federal support for education, by type of ultimate recipient and agency: Fiscal year 2007

[In millions of current dollars]
Agency Total Local
education agencies
State
education agencies
Post-
secondary students
Degree-granting institutions Federal institutions Other education organizations1  Other
recipients2 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Total3 $212,365.7 $42,859.8 $10,553.2 $47,740.7 $76,294.2 $4,513.5 $18,224.6 $12,179.8
Total program funds—on-budget 147,527.7 42,859.8 8,135.5 21,974.5 47,007.8 4,513.5 18,224.6 4,812.0
Department of Education 71,808.0 29,008.8 7,429.4 14,269.9 13,877.6 613.2 2,931.5 3,677.7
Department of Agriculture 15,409.7 12,615.9 654.1 648.7 24.0 976.0 491.0
Department of Commerce 198.5 198.5
Department of Defense 6,066.7 324.9 594.1 2,895.6 1,801.9 450.1
Department of Energy 4,649.5 4,649.5
Department of Health and Human Services 25,705.0 688.8 1,512.9 16,826.2 307.0 6,370.1
Department of Homeland Security 622.9 15.0 277.4 303.4 27.1
Department of Housing and Urban Development 1.0 1.0
Department of the Interior 962.3 84.0 52.0 25.8 109.9 518.7 171.8
Department of Justice 771.7 24.0 34.1 713.6
Department of Labor 5,413.5 187.5 5,226.0
Department of State 587.1 114.1 473.0
Department of Transportation 128.7 54.5 61.0 0.2 13.0
Department of Veterans Affairs 5,256.4 5,256.4
                 
Other agencies and programs                
Agency for International Development 656.7 27.5 629.2
Appalachian Regional Commission 7.5 3.5 4.0
Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation 3.0 3.0
Corporation for National and Community Service 395.0 395.0
Environmental Protection Agency 72.5 72.5
Estimated education share of federal aid to the District of Columbia 168.2 137.4 29.4 1.3
Harry S Truman scholarship fund 3.0 3.0
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development 6.0 6.0
Institute of Library and Museum Services 258.0 258.0
James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation 2.0 2.0
Japanese-United States Friendship Commission 2.0 2.0
Library of Congress 463.0 463.0
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 3,033.5 3,033.5
National Archives and Records Administration 273.0 273.0
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science 1.0 1.0
National Endowment for the Arts 11.8 11.8
National Endowment for the Humanities 121.1 121.1
National Science Foundation 4,368.5 300.4 4,068.1
Nuclear Regulatory Commission 13.2 13.2
Smithsonian Institution 46.1 0.1 46.0
U.S. Institute of Peace 32.0 32.0
Other agencies 9.7 9.7
Off-budget support and nonfederal funds generated
  by federal legislation
64,838.0 2,417.7 25,766.2 29,286.4 7,367.8
†Not applicable.
1 Includes Head Start programs at child care centers, Job Corps and other vocational pro-grams, and federal programs at libraries and museums.
2 Other recipients include American Indian tribes, private nonprofit agencies, and banks.
3 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 tabula-tions. U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the U.S. Government, Appendix, Fiscal Year 2009. National Science Foundation, Federal Funds for Research and Development, Fiscal Years 2005, 2006, and 2007. (This table was prepared October 2008.)