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Digest of Education Statistics: 2004
Digest of Education Statistics: 2004

NCES 2006-005
October 2005


Table 367. Estimated federal support for education, by agency and type of ultimate recipient: Fiscal year 2004
[In millions of dollars]

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                                                    |            |      Local |      State |Postsecondary |    Degree- |            |   Multiple |
Agency                                              |      Total |  education |  education |     students |   granting |    Federal |      types |   Other\1\
                                                    |            |   agencies |   agencies |              |     insti- |            |         of |
                                                    |            |            |            |              |    tutions |            | recipients |
____________________________________________________|____________|____________|____________|______________|____________|____________|____________|____________
1                                                   |          2 |          3 |          4 |            5 |          6 |          7 |          8 |          9
____________________________________________________|____________|____________|____________|______________|____________|____________|____________|____________
     Total\2\ ......................................|  $184,701.9|   $41,340.3|   $10,022.4|     $35,388.3|   $65,461.5|    $4,838.6|   $15,859.2|   $11,791.2
                                                    |____________|____________|____________|______________|____________|____________|____________|____________
   Total program funds - on-budget .................|   131,967.4|    41,340.3|     8,444.5|      15,346.7|    41,711.2|     4,838.6|    15,859.2|     4,427.0
                                                    |____________|____________|____________|______________|____________|____________|____________|____________
Department of Education ............................|    62,864.6|    28,630.4|     6,946.3|      10,023.5|    10,381.1|       648.9|     2,857.9|     3,376.4
Department of Agriculture ..........................|    13,133.5|    11,486.7|       572.8|            † |       613.7|        21.1|         0.2|       439.1
Department of Commerce .............................|       150.2|          † |          † |            † |       150.2|          † |          † |          †
Department of Defense ..............................|     5,552.4|       284.7|          † |         627.8|     2,512.6|     1,771.8|       355.5|          †
Department of Energy ...............................|     4,116.9|          † |          † |            † |     4,116.9|          † |          † |          †
Department of Health and Human Services ............|    25,966.9|       677.5|          † |       1,580.5|    17,013.4|       309.0|     6,386.6|          †
Department of Homeland Security ....................|       235.7|          † |          † |           8.7|        11.7|       215.3|          † |          †
Department of Housing and Urban Development ........|         0.9|          † |          † |            † |         0.9|          † |          † |          †
Department of the Interior .........................|     1,297.7|       117.7|        67.4|          27.6|       193.4|       520.6|       370.9|          †
Department of Justice ..............................|       544.1|          † |          † |            † |        31.9|       512.2|          † |          †
Department of Labor ................................|     5,610.7|          † |       840.0|            † |        10.7|          † |     4,760.0|          †
Department of State ................................|       456.9|          † |          † |            † |          † |       111.9|       345.0|          †
Department of Transportation .......................|       101.1|          † |          † |            † |        34.3|        56.0|         0.8|        10.0
Department of Veterans Affairs .....................|     2,797.8|          † |        18.0|       2,779.8|          † |          † |          † |          †
                                                    |            |            |            |              |            |            |            |
Other agencies and programs                         |            |            |            |              |            |            |            |
                                                    |            |            |            |              |            |            |            |
Agency for International Development ...............|       636.9|          † |          † |            † |        36.5|          † |          † |       600.4
Appalachian Regional Commission ....................|        11.7|          † |          † |            † |         7.6|          † |         4.1|          †
Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in       |            |            |            |              |            |            |            |
   Education Foundation ............................|         3.0|          † |          † |            † |          † |          † |         3.0|          †
Corporation for National and Community Service .....|       317.0|          † |          † |            † |          † |          † |       317.0|          †
Environmental Protection Agency ....................|       168.9|          † |          † |            † |       168.9|          † |          † |          †
Estimated education share of federal aid to the     |            |            |            |              |            |            |            |
   District of Columbia ............................|       156.7|       143.4|          † |            † |        11.9|          † |         1.5|          †
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 ...........|       262.0|          † |          † |            † |          † |          † |       262.0|          †
James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation .......|         2.0|          † |          † |            † |          † |          † |         2.0|          †
Japanese-United States Friendship Commission .......|         3.0|          † |          † |            † |          † |          † |         3.0|          †
Library of Congress ................................|       406.0|          † |          † |            † |          † |       406.0|          † |          †
National Aeronautics and Space Administration ......|     2,628.4|          † |          † |            † |     2,628.4|          † |          † |          †
National Archives and Records Administration .......|       265.0|          † |          † |            † |          † |       265.0|          † |          †
National Commission on Libraries and                |            |            |            |              |            |            |            |
   Information Science .............................|         1.0|          † |          † |            † |          † |          † |          † |         1.0
National Endowment for the Arts ....................|        10.7|          † |          † |            † |          † |          † |        10.7|          †
National Endowment for the Humanities ..............|       103.2|          † |          † |            † |          † |          † |       103.2|          †
National Science Foundation ........................|     4,067.9|          † |          † |         298.7|     3,769.2|          † |          † |          †
Nuclear Regulatory Commission ......................|        11.7|          † |          † |            † |        11.7|          † |          † |          †
Smithsonian Institution ............................|        48.8|          † |          † |            † |          † |         0.8|        48.0|          †
U.S. Institute of Peace ............................|        19.0|          † |          † |            † |          † |          † |        19.0|          †
Other agencies .....................................|         6.1|          † |          † |            † |         6.1|          † |          † |          †
                                                    |____________|____________|____________|______________|____________|____________|____________|____________
   Off-budget support and nonfederal funds          |            |            |            |              |            |            |            |
      generated by federal legislation .............|    52,734.0|          † |     1,577.9|      20,041.6|    23,750.2|          † |          † |     7,364.3
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†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, Office of the Deputy Secretary, Budget Office, unpublished data; U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2005; National Science Foundation, Federal Funds for Research and Development, Fiscal Years 2002, 2003, and 2004; and unpublished data obtained from various federal agencies. (This table was prepared July 2004.)