Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of Veterans Affairs reported $285.1 billion in obligations for fiscal year 2026, ranking 4 of 73 top-tier agencies.
American Factbook Research
The record
- Obligations, FY2026
- $285,070,138,566
- All award types. Obligations recorded, not money spent.
- Rank among agencies
- 4 of 73
- By obligations this fiscal year.
- Share of all federal obligations
- 6.0%
- Of $4.8 trillion across all agencies.
- Treasury top-tier code
- 036
- USAspending profile
- usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-veterans-affairs
By award type
| Award type | Obligations | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Direct payments | $204,513,342,250 | 71.7% |
| Contracts | $75,872,372,409 | 26.6% |
| Grants | $2,631,007,462 | 0.9% |
| Other | $1,313,788,810 | 0.5% |
| Loans | $739,627,636 | 0.3% |
Where the work was performed
| Rank | State | Obligations | Share of agency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virginia | $42,661,673,173 | 15.0% |
| 2 | Texas | $42,312,447,679 | 14.8% |
| 3 | Florida | $21,577,559,075 | 7.6% |
| 4 | California | $19,356,632,682 | 6.8% |
| 5 | North Carolina | $10,805,742,068 | 3.8% |
| 6 | Georgia | $10,047,269,668 | 3.5% |
| 7 | Illinois | $6,370,350,920 | 2.2% |
| 8 | Pennsylvania | $6,252,909,916 | 2.2% |
| 9 | Tennessee | $6,205,024,919 | 2.2% |
| 10 | New York | $5,981,466,064 | 2.1% |
| 11 | Colorado | $5,895,705,578 | 2.1% |
| 12 | Ohio | $5,891,918,214 | 2.1% |
| 13 | South Carolina | $5,864,178,078 | 2.1% |
| 14 | Alabama | $5,704,521,349 | 2.0% |
| 15 | Arizona | $5,625,666,006 | 2.0% |
The 15 largest of 56 states and territories. These rows total $284,807,028,134, against an overall $285,070,138,566 for the agency. Effectively all of this agency’s obligations carry a reported place of performance. The two figures come from separate USAspending aggregations and reconcile to within a fraction of a percent, not to the cent. Place of performance is what the recipient reported, not necessarily where work happened.
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Sources
- USAspending API v2 — U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved 2026-09-18apps/web/queries/spending/agencies_by_obligations.sql, apps/web/queries/spending/agency_states.sql
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