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Federal Spending by State Dataset

FY2025 award obligations across 57 states and territories.

Download a reusable state-level table of federal award obligations recorded by place of performance. It includes total spending, population, per-capita figures, award types, and a disclosure field for USASpending.gov bulk-recipient placeholders. It is not a state budget, a measure of state revenue, or a count of benefits received by residents.

Dataset at a glance

The table records $5.28T in FY2025 federal award obligations across 57 states and territories, directly from the portal's USASpending.gov-backed database.

States and territories
57
Fiscal year
FY2025
Tracked obligations
$5.28T
Formats
CSV + JSON

Download the data

Both files are rendered directly from the live database at request time, so their rows match the state pages and rankings on this site.

Download CSV

Spreadsheet-friendly table with one row per state or territory.

Open JSON

Machine-readable records with the dataset vintage and source metadata.

How to read and reuse it

  • Geographic basis: totals are assigned to the award's place of performance, not necessarily the recipient's headquarters or where every dollar was ultimately spent.
  • Per-capita caution: the placeholder_pct field identifies totals tied to bulk-recipient labels such as “MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS” or “REDACTED DUE TO PII”; compare high per-capita values with that disclosure before drawing conclusions.
  • License: the underlying federal data is public domain. Cite the dataset version and link to this page so readers can inspect the methodology and current vintage.

Source: USASpending.gov Federal award transaction data · FY2025

Every figure on PlainSpending is computed directly from USASpending.gov award-transaction data, no number is typed in by an editor. Every download is a live SQL export of the 57 state and territory records in PlainSpending's USASpending.gov-backed database. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.