Where the Department's dollars actually go.
The whole Department of Education (USAspending toptier agency 091) as recorded in the public spending feed: budgetary resources and obligations by fiscal year, and the largest contract awards. Most ED money flows as grants to states and institutions (Title I, IDEA, Pell) and as direct loans to students — the contracts table below is the procurement slice, a small fraction of total obligations, and is largely loan-servicing and IT.
Data currency & scale
Agency budgetary resources are gross and loan-dominated (the Direct Loan program), so they run far above the discretionary topline and carry the same credit-reform volatility. ED publishes award detail without a 90-day OPSEC withholding; normal USAspending reporting lag applies, so the contracts table uses the latest fully-loaded fiscal year.
Obligated (latest complete FY)
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Obligated (in progress)
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Top-15 award value
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Toptier agency
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Department of Education
Obligations over time
Total agency obligations by fiscal year (grants, direct loans, and contracts combined). The year-to-year swings reflect loan-program activity and credit-reform re-estimates, not program decisions. The current fiscal year is partial.
Largest contract awards
Ranked by total obligated amount on the award. Contracts are the procurement slice only — grants and direct loans are not shown here, and most of the largest awards are student-loan servicing and FSA IT systems. For multiyear/IDIQ vehicles this accumulates across option years — a measure of award size, not single-year spend.
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