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Table 422. Estimated federal support for education, by type of ultimate recipient and agency: Fiscal year 2011
[In millions of current dollars]
Agency Total Local education agencies State education agencies Post-
secondary students
Degree-granting insti-
tutions
Federal institu-
tions
Other education organiza-
tions1
Other recip-
ients2
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Total3  $294,516.1 $49,094.2 $8,154.9 $82,867.3 $110,008.7 $17,191.1 $21,279.3 $5,920.6
                 
Total program funds--on-budget 185,209.8 49,094.2 8,053.4 39,753.8 58,597.0 6,799.4 21,279.3 1,632.7
Department of Education 93,777.3 29,870.2 7,146.2 26,324.7 24,471.9 2,407.1 2,957.5 599.7
Department of Agriculture 20,371.2 16,629.6 864.5 975.6 22.0 1,349.5 530.0
Department of Commerce 261.6 261.6
Department of Defense 6,789.9 377.5 809.0 3,055.1 2,019.1 529.1
Department of Energy 3,064.5 3,064.5
Department of Health and Human Services 29,260.3 755.9 1,869.0 19,275.1 337.0 7,023.3
Department of Homeland Security 2,131.7 1,241.0 22.2 525.4 343.1
Department of Housing and Urban Development 1.3 1.3
Department of the Interior 964.4 67.4 24.4 30.9 69.2 583.6 188.8
Department of Justice 951.4 6.0 34.6 910.8
Department of Labor 6,121.3 0.3 6,121.0
Department of State 782.6 121.6 661.0
Department of Transportation 138.3 61.2 61.0 0.1 16.0
Department of Veterans Affairs 10,333.1 18.3 10,314.7
                 
Other agencies and programs                
Agency for International Development 503.5 16.6 486.9
Appalachian Regional Commission 11.9 6.1 5.8
Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in                
Education Foundation 3.0 3.0
Corporation for National and Community Service 983.0 983.0
Environmental Protection Agency 48.9 48.9
Estimated education share of federal aid to the                
District of Columbia 172.9 152.7 19.2 1.0
Harry S Truman scholarship fund 1.0 1.0
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native                
Culture and Arts Development 8.0 8.0
Institute of Museum and Library Services 274.0 274.0
James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation 2.0 2.0
Japanese-United States Friendship Commission 2.0 2.0
Library of Congress 521.0 521.0
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1,771.1 1,771.1
National Archives and Records Administration 349.0 349.0
National Endowment for the Arts 13.0 13.0
National Endowment for the Humanities 131.2 131.2
National Science Foundation 5,330.3 383.3 4,947.0
Nuclear Regulatory Commission 8.4 8.4
Smithsonian Institution 67.1 0.1 67.0
U.S. Institute of Peace 47.0 47.0
Other agencies 12.8 12.8
                 
Off-budget support and nonfederal funds                
generated by federal legislation 109,306.3 101.5 43,113.5 51,411.7 10,391.7 4,287.9
†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 2013. National Science Foundation, Federal Funds for Research and Development, fiscal years 2009, 2010, and 2011. (This table was prepared November 2012.)

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