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Digest of Education Statistics: 2006
Digest of Education Statistics: 2006

NCES 2007-017
July 2007


Table 365. Estimated federal support for education, by type of ultimate recipient and agency: Fiscal year 2006  

[In millions of dollars]
Agency Total Local
education agencies
State
education agencies
Post-
secondary students
Degree-granting institutions Federal Multiple types of recipients Other1 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Total2 $227,320.1 $44,230.0 $11,031.4 $53,789.1 $78,848.0 $5,181.5 $16,550.7 $17,690.0
Total program funds—on-budget 166,134.5 44,230.0 9,195.8 29,926.5 53,149.8 5,181.5 16,550.7 7,900.2
Department of Education 93,928.4 30,592.2 8,484.6 22,744.7 21,271.3 700.5 3,252.3 6,882.8
Department of Agriculture 14,528.4 12,222.7 633.0 635.2 22.0 564.0 451.4
Department of Commerce 185.2 185.2
Department of Defense 6,170.8 319.5 685.9 2,830.1 1,906.9 428.5
Department of Energy 4,024.4 4,024.4
Department of Health and Human Services 25,818.0 687.6 1,665.6 16,768.1 315.0 6,381.7
Department of Homeland Security 493.6 120.0 14.0 145.6 214.0
Department of Housing and Urban Development 1.8 1.8
Department of the Interior 1,183.5 91.6 59.2 26.1 196.6 523.7 286.4
Department of Justice 646.7 19.4 627.3
Department of Labor 4,216.2 13.2 4,203.0
Department of State 525.3 114.3 411.0
Department of Transportation 140.9 67.9 61.0 1.0 11.0
Department of Veterans Affairs 4,526.5 19.0 4,507.5
                 
Other agencies and programs                
Agency for International Development 583.5 29.5 554.0
Appalachian Regional Commission 8.5 3.5 5.0
Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation 4.0 4.0
Corporation for National and Community Service 467.0 467.0
Environmental Protection Agency 80.9 80.9
Estimated education share of federal aid to the
District of Columbia
216.8 196.4 18.8 1.6
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 324.0 324.0
James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation 2.0 2.0
Japanese-United States Friendship Commission 3.0 3.0
Library of Congress 424.0 424.0
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 3,010.6 3,010.6
National Archives and Records Administration 272.0 272.0
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 117.5 117.5
National Science Foundation 4,106.9 282.7 3,824.2
Nuclear Regulatory Commission 8.0 8.0
Smithsonian Institution 48.9 0.9 48.0
U.S. Institute of Peace 31.0 31.0
Other agencies 15.4 15.4
                 
Off-budget support and nonfederal funds generated by federal legislation 61,186.0 1,835.6 23,862.5 25,698.1 9,789.8
†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 2007. National Science Foundation, Federal Funds for Research and Development, fiscal years 2004, 2005, and 2006. (This table was prepared November 2006.)