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Digest of Education Statistics: 2011
Digest of Education Statistics: 2011

NCES 2012-001
May 2012


Table 387. Estimated federal support for education, by type of ultimate recipient and agency: Fiscal year 2010
[In millions of current dollars]
Agency Total Local education agencies State education agencies Post-secondary students Degree-granting insti-tutions Federal institutions Other education organiza-tions1 Other recip-
ients2
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Total3  $284,670.4 $55,181.8 $10,175.4 $71,422.5 $101,773.1 $16,403.3 $22,699.0 $7,015.2
                 
Total program funds--on-budget 179,860.4 55,181.8 9,586.8 30,579.6 51,822.4 7,086.0 22,699.0 2,904.7
Department of Education 91,893.2 38,136.9 8,744.6 18,616.4 18,027.3 2,677.1 3,888.2 1,802.5
Department of Agriculture 19,373.6 15,746.4 819.2 930.6 24.0 1,310.0 543.4
Department of Commerce 191.8 191.8
Department of Defense 7,183.4 359.7 886.6 3,320.3 2,024.2 592.6
Department of Energy 4,570.0 4,570.0
Department of Health and Human Services 28,042.1 723.4 1,853.5 18,407.0 340.0 6,718.3
Department of Homeland Security 538.5 12.7 20.9 157.7 347.2
Department of Housing and Urban Development 0.6 0.6
Department of the Interior 989.4 64.6 23.0 31.1 61.8 582.5 226.5
Department of Justice 947.1 37.3 36.2 873.6
Department of Labor 6,826.8 0.8 6,826.0
Department of State 729.5 120.5 609.0
Department of Transportation 178.1 83.0 79.0 16.0
Department of Veterans Affairs 8,802.9 8,802.9
                 
Other agencies and programs                
Agency for International Development 573.1 30.4 542.7
Appalachian Regional Commission 5.1 2.5 2.6
Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in
   Education Foundation
4.0 4.0
Corporation for National and Community Service 965.0 965.0
Environmental Protection Agency 56.6 56.6
Estimated education share of federal aid to the
   District of Columbia
159.7 138.2 20.5 1.0
Harry S Truman scholarship fund 2.0 2.0
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native
   Culture and Arts Development
8.0 8.0
Institute of Museum and Library Services 265.0 265.0
James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation 2.0 2.0
Japanese-United States Friendship Commission 2.0 2.0
Library of Congress 516.0 516.0
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1,191.5 1,191.5
National Archives and Records Administration 339.0 339.0
National Endowment for the Arts 14.4 14.4
National Endowment for the Humanities 267.6 267.6
National Science Foundation 5,085.6 368.2 4,717.4
Nuclear Regulatory Commission 9.9 9.9
Smithsonian Institution 63.1 0.1 63.0
U.S. Institute of Peace 58.0 58.0
Other agencies 5.7 5.7
                 
Off-budget support and nonfederal funds
      generated by federal legislation
104,810.0 588.6 40,842.9 49,950.7 9,317.3 4,110.5
†Not applicable.
1 Includes Head Start programs at child care centers, Job Corps and other vocational programs, adult basic education programs, 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 tabulations. U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the U.S. Government, Appendix, Fiscal Year 2012. National Science Foundation, Federal Funds for Research and Development, fiscal years 2008, 2009, and 2010. (This table was prepared November 2011.)