California
Federal agencies obligated $444.9 billion for work performed in California in fiscal year 2026, ranking 1 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $444,866,798,834
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 1 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $11,282.08
- Divided by 39,431,263 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $444,866,798,834 divided by 39,431,263, the 2024 resident population estimate from U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates (NST-EST2024-ALLDATA). It is dollars of federally obligated work recorded in California per resident. It is not federal money received by residents, and it is not a payment anyone receives.
Largest agencies
| Rank | Agency | Obligations | Share of state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Department of Health and Human Services | $184,670,193,280 | 41.5% |
| 2 | Social Security Administration | $139,190,814,473 | 31.3% |
| 3 | Department of Defense | $28,795,944,279 | 6.5% |
| 4 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $19,356,632,682 | 4.4% |
| 5 | Department of Agriculture | $19,004,586,977 | 4.3% |
| 6 | Department of Transportation | $10,673,573,435 | 2.4% |
| 7 | Department of Education | $10,133,791,111 | 2.3% |
| 8 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $8,822,217,823 | 2.0% |
| 9 | Department of Energy | $7,249,146,212 | 1.6% |
| 10 | Department of Homeland Security | $5,220,570,030 | 1.2% |
| 11 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $3,578,392,514 | 0.8% |
| 12 | Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation | $2,667,312,113 | 0.6% |
| 13 | General Services Administration | $1,259,363,469 | 0.3% |
| 14 | Department of the Interior | $819,592,210 | 0.2% |
| 15 | National Science Foundation | $670,341,669 | 0.2% |
The 15 largest of 54 agencies with obligations here. California accounts for 9.4% of the $4,725,719,515,020 that carries a place-of-performance state.
What this page cannot show
- Place of performance is the location the recipient reported. A contract recorded here may be performed, subcontracted, or spent elsewhere.
- These are obligations recorded in the period, not outlays and not money received by residents or by the state government.
- A per-resident figure divides work performed in a state by the people who live there. The two are not the same population, and a state with a large federal installation or contractor will rank high without its residents receiving that money.
Related
Nearby in the ranking
Largest agencies here
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/states_by_federal_awards.sql, apps/web/queries/spending/state_agencies.sql
- U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates (NST-EST2024-ALLDATA) (population denominator) — U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Government work, public domaintransforms/seeds/census_state_population.csv
Data retrieved