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Foster Care Title IV-E

Foster Care Title IV-E recorded $5.7 billion of federal assistance obligations under this Assistance Listing in fiscal year 2026, which ranks 34 of 1,888 assistance programs with a figure in FY2026.

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Identifiers

Assistance Listing
93.658

The record

Reported figures for Foster Care Title IV-E, each linked to its source
Obligated · FY2026Assistance only — grants, loans, direct payments and insurance. Contracts carry no Assistance Listing number and are not in this figure.$5,742,523,141USD
Rank among assistance programs · FY202634 of 1,888by obligations
Share of all assistance programs · FY2026Of $4.1 trillion, which is what every assistance program the publisher reported obligated in FY2026 — not the federal total, which is larger.0.1%percent

By fiscal year

Foster Care Title IV-E: federal assistance obligations under this Assistance Listing, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$5,060,956,774
FY2023$5,054,355,466
FY2024$5,099,292,868
FY2025$4,014,702,859
FY2026$5,742,523,141

The publisher holds five fiscal years of this breakdown. A year missing from this table is a year this assistance program was not reported in, not a year of no spending.

The nearest ranks

assistance programs ranked nearest Foster Care Title IV-E, FY2026
Rankassistance programObligated
31Supplemental Disaster Relief Program$7,320,125,914
32Federal Transit Formula Grants$7,077,921,651
33State Administrative Matching Grants for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program$6,100,419,313
35Health Center Program$5,311,699,345
36National Railroad Passenger Corporation Grants$5,126,658,639
37Bridge Formula Program$5,105,488,946

What this data cannot show

  • The fiscal year is not over. These are obligations recorded so far, and a figure here is not comparable with a full year.
  • An obligation is a binding commitment to pay, not money paid. Outlays are reported separately and the two are never equal in the same year.
  • Assistance only — grants, loans, direct payments and insurance. Contracts carry no Assistance Listing number and are not in this figure.
  • This page is built from the database rather than from the committed extract, so it covers every assistance program the publisher reported and not only the largest hundred the ranking names. Both come from the same ingest on the date above.

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