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Table 383. Estimated federal support for education, by type of ultimate recipient and agency: Fiscal year 2009
[In millions of current dollars]
Agency Total Local education agencies State education agencies Postsecondary students Degree-granting institutions Federal institutions Other education organizations1 Other recip-ients2
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Total3  $260,122.7 $54,951.6 $13,965.7 $61,226.4 $88,779.9 $5,582.5 $22,485.4 $13,131.2
                 
Total program funds--on-budget 163,070.7 54,951.6 9,113.1 22,346.6 46,018.1 5,582.5 22,485.4 2,573.4
Department of Education 85,224.7 40,300.0 8,402.8 14,828.8 14,782.5 1,415.3 4,068.7 1,426.6
Department of Agriculture 16,428.1 13,217.6 685.7 612.0 23.0 1,370.0 519.8
Department of Commerce 198.0 198.0
Department of Defense 6,678.1 378.7 747.4 3,071.6 1,900.2 580.3
Department of Energy 2,883.7 2,883.7
Department of Health and Human Services 28,470.4 849.9 1,764.0 17,688.9 331.0 7,836.6
Department of Homeland Security 558.5 20.4 165.4 352.5 20.1
Department of Housing and Urban Development 0.4 0.4
Department of the Interior 968.5 68.3 24.6 26.1 53.8 560.8 234.8
Department of Justice 876.2 26.1 30.1 820.0
Department of Labor 6,084.6 11.6 6,073.0
Department of State 655.5 118.5 537.0
Department of Transportation 139.9 70.8 54.0 0.1 15.0
Department of Veterans Affairs 4,601.4 4,601.4
                 
Other agencies and programs                
Agency for International Development 628.2 16.2 612.0
Appalachian Regional Commission 6.1 3.0 3.1
Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in
   Education Foundation
3.0 3.0
Corporation for National and Community Service 401.0 401.0
Environmental Protection Agency 64.7 64.7
Estimated education share of federal aid to the
   District of Columbia
157.5 137.0 19.2 1.3
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 468.0 468.0
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1,655.4 1,655.4
National Archives and Records Administration 329.0 329.0
National Endowment for the Arts 12.9 12.9
National Endowment for the Humanities 134.5 134.5
National Science Foundation 5,034.5 358.5 4,676.0
Nuclear Regulatory Commission 8.1 8.1
Smithsonian Institution 61.1 0.1 61.0
U.S. Institute of Peace 49.0 49.0
Other agencies 10.7 10.7
                 
Off-budget support and nonfederal funds
    generated by federal legislation
97,052.0 4,852.6 38,879.8 42,761.8 10,557.8
†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 2011. National Science Foundation, Federal Funds for Research and Development, fiscal years 2007, 2008, and 2009. (This table was prepared October 2010.)

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