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Digest of Education Statistics
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Table 363. Estimated federal support for education, by type of ultimate recipient and agency: Fiscal year 2006

[In millions of current 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 $226,969.3 $43,712.7 $11,458.1 $53,776.8 $78,481.8 $4,438.1 $17,925.4 $17,175.5
Total program funds—on-budget 166,486.3 43,712.7 9,038.8 30,188.5 53,079.0 4,438.1 17,925.4 8,104.0
Department of Education 93,571.5 30,236.6 8,331.3 22,955.1 21,376.1 693.2 2,902.3 7,076.8
Department of Agriculture 14,502.6.4 12,217.7 633.0 614.6 24.0 561.8 451.4
Department of Commerce 185.2 185.2
Department of Defense 5,902.1 308.2 605.4 2,769.4 1,769.6 449.4
Department of Energy 4,024.4 4,024.4
Department of Health and Human Services 25,915.7 685.1 1,796.0 16,763.2 312.0 6,359.4
Department of Homeland Security 374.8 12.6 144.6 202.8 14.7
Department of Housing and Urban Development 1.8 1.8
Department of the Interior 1,140.7 141.4 56.8 26.1 106.3 523.7 286.4
Department of Justice 560.4 19.4 26.7 514.3
Department of Labor 5,368.2 13.2 5,355.0
Department of State 555.0 112.0 443.0
Department of Transportation 139.6 67.9 63.0 0.7 8.0
Department of Veterans Affairs 4,528.1 17.7 4,510.4
                 
Other agencies and programs                
Agency for International Development 596.3 29.5 566.8
Appalachian Regional Commission 11.0 7.9 3.1
Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation 3.0 3.0
Corporation for National and Community Service 503.0 503.0
Environmental Protection Agency 80.9 80.9
Estimated education share of federal aid to the District of Columbia 141.0 123.7 16.0 1.4
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 241.0 241.0
James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation 2.0 2.0
Japanese-United States Friendship Commission 2.0 2.0
Library of Congress 435.0 435.0
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 3,010.6 3,010.6
National Archives and Records Administration 276.0 276.0
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science 1.0 1.0
National Endowment for the Arts 10.6 10.6
National Endowment for the Humanities 120.3 120.3
National Science Foundation 4,106.9 282.7 3,824.2
Nuclear Regulatory Commission 8.0 8.0
Smithsonian Institution 42.1 0.1 42.0
U.S. Institute of Peace 101.0 101.0
Other agencies 15.4 15.4
Off-budget support and nonfederal funds generated by federal legislation 60,483.0 2,419.3 23,588.4 25,402.9 9,072.5
† 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 2008. National Science Foundation, Federal Funds for Research and Development, Fiscal Years 2004, 2005, and 2006. (This table was prepared November 2007.)

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