City profileNorth CarolinaFiscal year 2025
How much federal money does Greensboro get?
Greensboro received $552.4 million in federal awards in FY2025: $1,790 per resident, 78th of 99 large cities by total.In fiscal year 2025, federal agencies obligated $552.4 million in awards whose place of performance is Greensboro, NC, about $1,790 per resident.
Greensboro is 71st 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 40.5% from FY2024 ($393.1 million). Compared with FY2019, the last year before pandemic relief, it is up 88.8%. The largest share came as grants ($353.1 million). The Department of Energy obligated the most ($212.5 million), and the largest program was Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications ($208.2 million). By this measure Greensboro ranks 78th 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 GREENSBORO, state NC). 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 North Carolina page, which includes those payments.
Federal money to Greensboro by year
Greensboro: $552M in FY2025, up 89% 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 | $111.8M | $106.4M | $116.9M | -$2.8M | -$121,040 | $332.1M | – |
| FY2019 | $70.6M | $106.7M | $123.1M | -$7.8M | $111,748 | $292.6M | – |
| FY2020 | $82.1M | $199.5M | $131.8M | -$25.0M | $1.0M | $389.4M | $1,316 |
| FY2021 | $98.1M | $399.5M | $207.0M | -$30.7M | $119,414 | $674.0M | $2,263 |
| FY2022 | $291.0M | $156.9M | $130.7M | -$16.0M | $1.7M | $564.3M | $1,877 |
| FY2023 | $141.0M | $180.7M | $138.2M | -$17.7M | $320,486 | $442.6M | $1,460 |
| FY2024 | $84.6M | $158.7M | $150.2M | -$1.7M | $1.2M | $393.1M | $1,283 |
| FY2025 | $20.1M | $353.1M | $178.0M | $508,800 | $652,076 | $552.4M | $1,790 |
| FY2026* | -$250,247 | $135.1M | $184.1M | $140,027 | $53,546 | $319.1M | – |
Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Treasury).
Cities with similar totals
Greensboro and the cities ranked either side of it
FY2025 federal awards performed in each city, total dollars.
| Arlington, TX | $574.4 million |
| Stockton, CA | $568.2 million |
| Greensboro, NC (this page) | $552.4 million |
| Santa Ana, CA | $547.4 million |
| Omaha, NE | $535.4 million |
Who pays and for what, FY2025
The agencies that obligated the most to Greensboro, 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 | $212.5 million | 38.5% |
| Department of Education | $179.2 million | 32.4% |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $60.7 million | 11.0% |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $25.4 million | 4.6% |
| Department of Transportation | $16.0 million | 2.9% |
| Department of Agriculture | $15.8 million | 2.9% |
| Department of Justice | $14.6 million | 2.6% |
| National Science Foundation | $12.4 million | 2.2% |
| Federal Communications Commission | $5.1 million | 0.9% |
| Department of Defense | $3.3 million | 0.6% |
Top programs
| Program | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications Assistance Listing 81.253 | $208.2 million | 37.7% |
| Federal Pell Grant Program Assistance Listing 84.063 | $111.4 million | 20.2% |
| Higher Education Institutional Aid Assistance Listing 84.031 | $46.7 million | 8.4% |
| Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers Assistance Listing 14.871 | $32.5 million | 5.9% |
| Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) Assistance Listing 14.195 | $14.7 million | 2.7% |
| Airport Improvement Program, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Programs, and COVID-19 Airports Programs Assistance Listing 20.106 | $10.8 million | 2.0% |
| ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY for HEALTH (ARPA-H) Assistance Listing 93.384 | $7.5 million | 1.4% |
| STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) Assistance Listing 47.076 | $6.3 million | 1.1% |
| Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance Assistance Listing 93.243 | $5.4 million | 1.0% |
| Extension Services at 1890 Colleges and Tuskegee University, West Virginia State College, and Central State University Assistance Listing 10.512 | $5.3 million | 1.0% |
Nearby on this site
Other cities in North Carolina
- Charlotte$927M
- Raleigh$7.2B
- Durham$2.2B
- Winston-Salem$387M
Universities in Greensboro
Questions and answers
- How much federal money does Greensboro get?
- $552.4 million in FY2025 in awards performed in Greensboro, NC, according to USAspending.gov. That excludes most payments to individuals, which are published only by county.
- How much is that per resident?
- About $1,790 per resident, using the Census Bureau's July 2025 estimate of 308,667 people.
- Which agency spends the most in Greensboro?
- The Department of Energy, with $212.5 million 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 (GREENSBORO) in NC, 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 (Greensboro city).
- How the figures are built, and what they leave out: sources and methods.