States by federal awards

Name: Federal obligations by state, FY2026
Creator: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service
License: U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105)

All 56 states and territories with federal obligations performed there in fiscal year 2026, totalling $4.7 trillion.

American Factbook Research

Obligations by place of performance · FY2026

Rate denominator: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates (NST-EST2024-ALLDATA), 2024 resident population estimate.

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States and territories ranked by federal obligations performed there, fiscal year 2026
Rank	State	Obligations	Share	Population	Per resident
1	California	$444,866,798,834	9.4%	39,431,263	$11,282.08
2	Texas	$296,132,917,666	6.3%	31,290,831	$9,463.89
3	Florida	$290,178,573,338	6.1%	23,372,215	$12,415.54
4	Pennsylvania	$254,502,858,385	5.4%	13,078,751	$19,459.26
5	New York	$239,483,529,937	5.1%	19,867,248	$12,054.19
6	Minnesota	$222,895,462,058	4.7%	5,793,151	$38,475.69
7	Kentucky	$182,409,052,019	3.9%	4,588,372	$39,754.63
8	Virginia	$177,279,805,948	3.8%	8,811,195	$20,119.84
9	Indiana	$176,376,526,189	3.7%	6,924,275	$25,472.20
10	Connecticut	$131,480,403,979	2.8%	3,675,069	$35,776.31
11	South Carolina	$122,838,496,206	2.6%	5,478,831	$22,420.57
12	Illinois	$119,108,385,438	2.5%	12,710,158	$9,371.12
13	Ohio	$117,548,704,125	2.5%	11,883,304	$9,891.92
14	Michigan	$113,587,218,699	2.4%	10,140,459	$11,201.39
15	North Carolina	$113,377,407,895	2.4%	11,046,024	$10,264.09
16	Arizona	$112,715,094,061	2.4%	7,582,384	$14,865.39
17	Tennessee	$112,349,182,951	2.4%	7,227,750	$15,544.14
18	Wisconsin	$99,439,827,577	2.1%	5,960,975	$16,681.81
19	Massachusetts	$94,094,015,412	2.0%	7,136,171	$13,185.50
20	Georgia	$93,197,810,580	2.0%	11,180,878	$8,335.46
21	Washington	$90,380,814,968	1.9%	7,958,180	$11,356.97
22	New Jersey	$88,194,846,147	1.9%	9,500,851	$9,282.84
23	Missouri	$87,118,963,955	1.8%	6,245,466	$13,949.15
24	North Dakota	$86,361,824,555	1.8%	796,568	$108,417.39
25	Maryland	$84,583,256,506	1.8%	6,263,220	$13,504.76
26	Alabama	$61,618,884,647	1.3%	5,157,699	$11,946.97
27	Colorado	$61,123,326,298	1.3%	5,957,493	$10,259.91
28	Louisiana	$55,696,307,751	1.2%	4,597,740	$12,113.84
29	Oregon	$53,493,554,832	1.1%	4,272,371	$12,520.81
30	Oklahoma	$44,415,135,063	0.9%	4,095,393	$10,845.15
31	District Of Columbia	$43,549,659,051	0.9%	702,250	$62,014.47
32	New Mexico	$41,289,633,858	0.9%	2,130,256	$19,382.48
33	Puerto Rico (territory)	$36,953,529,624	0.8%	not reported	not reported
34	Mississippi	$33,498,649,207	0.7%	2,943,045	$11,382.31
35	Iowa	$29,692,994,121	0.6%	3,241,488	$9,160.30
36	Arkansas	$29,681,562,249	0.6%	3,088,354	$9,610.80
37	Nevada	$29,537,065,342	0.6%	3,267,467	$9,039.74
38	Kansas	$27,378,663,847	0.6%	2,970,606	$9,216.52
39	Utah	$26,531,731,145	0.6%	3,503,613	$7,572.68
40	Nebraska	$24,956,547,723	0.5%	2,005,465	$12,444.27
41	West Virginia	$21,931,315,253	0.5%	1,769,979	$12,390.72
42	Idaho	$19,842,844,821	0.4%	2,001,619	$9,913.40
43	Maine	$19,578,351,720	0.4%	1,405,012	$13,934.65
44	Alaska	$16,528,758,316	0.3%	740,133	$22,332.15
45	Hawaii	$16,300,401,977	0.3%	1,446,146	$11,271.62
46	New Hampshire	$14,364,469,646	0.3%	1,409,032	$10,194.57
47	Rhode Island	$14,085,810,234	0.3%	1,112,308	$12,663.59
48	Montana	$12,845,876,458	0.3%	1,137,233	$11,295.73
49	Delaware	$11,189,407,353	0.2%	1,051,917	$10,637.16
50	South Dakota	$9,902,466,701	0.2%	924,669	$10,709.20
51	Vermont	$7,619,897,110	0.2%	648,493	$11,750.16
52	Wyoming	$5,875,399,790	0.1%	587,618	$9,998.67
53	Guam (territory)	$3,278,680,284	0.1%	not reported	not reported
54	U.S. Virgin Islands (territory)	$1,348,706,274	0.0%	not reported	not reported
55	Northern Mariana Islands (territory)	$696,965,996	0.0%	not reported	not reported
56	American Samoa (territory)	$411,140,901	0.0%	not reported	not reported

How to read this

This ranks where work was performed, as recipients reported it. It is not federal money received by a state’s residents or its government.
The per-resident column divides obligations performed in a state by the people who live there. Those are different populations: a state with a large federal installation, laboratory, or contractor ranks high without residents receiving that money. The District of Columbia is the clearest case.
Territories are listed because USAspending reports them. The Census state population file does not cover them, so their population and per-resident figures are blank rather than zero, and they have no page of their own.
These rows cover $4,725,719,515,020 of the $4,777,271,007,979 obligated in total. Work performed abroad, or with no reported location, belongs to no state.

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 2026-09-18
apps/web/queries/spending/states_by_federal_awards.sql
U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates (NST-EST2024-ALLDATA) (population denominator) — U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Government work, public domain
transforms/seeds/census_state_population.csv

Data retrieved September 18, 2026