City profileNew MexicoFiscal year 2025
How much federal money does Albuquerque get?
Albuquerque received $6.8 billion in federal awards in FY2025: $12,174 per resident, 18th of 99 large cities by total.In fiscal year 2025, federal agencies obligated $6.8 billion in awards whose place of performance is Albuquerque, NM, about $12,174 per resident.
Albuquerque is 16th of 99 large cities per resident
Federal awards per resident, FY2025, the 99 largest US cities on this site. Dashed line: median city.
What the money is
That is up 5.6% from FY2024 ($6.4 billion). Compared with FY2019, the last year before pandemic relief, it is up 33.9%. The largest share came as contracts ($6.4 billion). The Department of Energy obligated the most ($5.8 billion), and the largest program was Federal Pell Grant Program ($78.5 million). By this measure Albuquerque ranks 18th of the 99 large US cities on this site.
What is counted: contracts, grants, loans and payments that agencies report with this city as the place of performance (USAspending.gov city name ALBUQUERQUE, state NM). Payments to individuals, such as Social Security, are published only as county totals to protect privacy, so most of them do not show up at city level. For the full picture see the New Mexico page, which includes those payments.
Federal money to Albuquerque by year
Albuquerque: $6.8B in FY2025, up 34% on FY2019
Federal award obligations by fiscal year and type, FY2018–FY2026, nominal dollars. FY26* is preliminary and still filling in.
- Insurance and other
- Loans (subsidy cost)
- Direct payments
- Grants
- Contracts
View every year as a table
| Fiscal year | Contracts | Grants | Direct payments | Loans | Insurance and other | Total | Per resident |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2018 | $4.5B | $400.8M | $136.6M | -$271,079 | $200,605 | $5.0B | – |
| FY2019 | $4.6B | $379.4M | $127.8M | -$1.9M | $605,919 | $5.1B | – |
| FY2020 | $5.1B | $481.3M | $514.9M | -$4.8M | $1.6M | $6.1B | $10,830 |
| FY2021 | $5.2B | $611.6M | $274.3M | -$16.7M | $8.3M | $6.0B | $10,700 |
| FY2022 | $5.0B | $278.7M | $120.2M | -$11.5M | $2.9M | $5.4B | $9,637 |
| FY2023 | $5.6B | $339.9M | $89.0M | -$5.4M | $1.1M | $6.0B | $10,771 |
| FY2024 | $5.9B | $412.4M | $152.7M | -$3.9M | $2.1M | $6.4B | $11,479 |
| FY2025 | $6.4B | $233.3M | $176.5M | -$3.9M | $198,804 | $6.8B | $12,174 |
| FY2026* | $6.4B | $276.7M | $218.0M | -$5.2M | $2.2M | $6.9B | – |
Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Treasury).
Cities with similar totals
Albuquerque and the cities ranked either side of it
FY2025 federal awards performed in each city, total dollars.
| Virginia Beach, VA | $7.2 billion |
| Raleigh, NC | $7.2 billion |
| Albuquerque, NM (this page) | $6.8 billion |
| Chicago, IL | $6.3 billion |
| Tampa, FL | $6.0 billion |
Who pays and for what, FY2025
The agencies that obligated the most to Albuquerque, and the largest federal programs. Programs are federal Assistance Listings (formerly CFDA numbers); contracts have no listing number, so they do not appear there.
Top awarding agencies
| Agency | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Energy | $5.8 billion | 85.6% |
| Department of Defense | $354.6 million | 5.2% |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $136.6 million | 2.0% |
| Department of Education | $115.9 million | 1.7% |
| Department of the Interior | $94.7 million | 1.4% |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $90.2 million | 1.3% |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $45.3 million | 0.7% |
| Department of Homeland Security | $33.4 million | 0.5% |
| National Science Foundation | $30.7 million | 0.5% |
| Department of Justice | $27.7 million | 0.4% |
Top programs
| Program | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Federal Pell Grant Program Assistance Listing 84.063 | $78.5 million | 1.2% |
| Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers Assistance Listing 14.871 | $62.8 million | 0.9% |
| Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience Assistance Listing 81.254 | $35.6 million | 0.5% |
| Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) Assistance Listing 14.195 | $17.8 million | 0.3% |
| Head Start Assistance Listing 93.600 | $16.4 million | 0.2% |
| Health Center Program Assistance Listing 93.224 | $13.4 million | 0.2% |
| Biomedical Research and Research Training Assistance Listing 93.859 | $12.5 million | 0.2% |
| Charter Schools Assistance Listing 84.282 | $11.5 million | 0.2% |
| Technical Assistance for Treatment Works (Clean Water Act [CWA] Section 104(b)(8)) Assistance Listing 66.446 | $10.7 million | 0.2% |
| Military Medical Research and Development Assistance Listing 12.420 | $10.1 million | 0.1% |
Nearby on this site
Universities in Albuquerque
Questions and answers
- How much federal money does Albuquerque get?
- $6.8 billion in FY2025 in awards performed in Albuquerque, NM, according to USAspending.gov. That excludes most payments to individuals, which are published only by county.
- How much is that per resident?
- About $12,174 per resident, using the Census Bureau's July 2025 estimate of 556,588 people.
- Which agency spends the most in Albuquerque?
- The Department of Energy, with $5.8 billion in FY2025.
Sources and notes
- USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), API endpoints spending_over_time and spending_by_category, filtered by place of performance city (ALBUQUERQUE) in NM, fiscal years 2018–2026. Amounts are obligations in nominal dollars. Data retrieved 2026-10-04. Public domain.
- U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 city estimates (Albuquerque city).
- How the figures are built, and what they leave out: sources and methods.