City profileCaliforniaFiscal year 2025
How much federal money does Sacramento get?
Sacramento received $7.8 billion in federal awards in FY2025: $14,484 per resident, 14th of 99 large cities by total.In fiscal year 2025, federal agencies obligated $7.8 billion in awards whose place of performance is Sacramento, CA, about $14,484 per resident.
Sacramento is 12th 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 6.2% from FY2024 ($7.3 billion). Compared with FY2019, the last year before pandemic relief, it is up 15.4%. The largest share came as grants ($6.9 billion). The Department of Education obligated the most ($5.3 billion), and the largest program was Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies ($2.2 billion). By this measure Sacramento ranks 14th 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 SACRAMENTO, state CA). 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 California page, which includes those payments.
Federal money to Sacramento by year
Sacramento: $7.8B in FY2025, up 15% 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 | $989.3M | $5.9B | $303.3M | -$1.1M | $210,046 | $7.2B | – |
| FY2019 | $254.3M | $6.2B | $310.6M | -$28.8M | $262,550 | $6.7B | – |
| FY2020 | $424.0M | $8.6B | $8.9B | -$15.1M | $10.9M | $18.0B | $34,177 |
| FY2021 | $359.6M | $27.8B | $259.1M | -$30.9M | $472,976 | $28.4B | $54,013 |
| FY2022 | $367.8M | $11.6B | -$459.4M | -$50.0M | $9.4M | $11.5B | $21,812 |
| FY2023 | $511.6M | $6.3B | $352.1M | -$27.0M | $10.6M | $7.1B | $13,427 |
| FY2024 | $464.1M | $6.4B | $450.8M | -$14.1M | $1.0M | $7.3B | $13,679 |
| FY2025 | $341.7M | $6.9B | $542.8M | $9.7M | -$140,448 | $7.8B | $14,484 |
| FY2026* | $474.0M | $5.9B | $553.5M | -$2.9M | $707,011 | $6.9B | – |
Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Treasury).
Cities with similar totals
Sacramento and the cities ranked either side of it
FY2025 federal awards performed in each city, total dollars.
| Louisville, KY | $8.0 billion |
| Phoenix, AZ | $7.8 billion |
| Sacramento, CA (this page) | $7.8 billion |
| Houston, TX | $7.5 billion |
| Virginia Beach, VA | $7.2 billion |
Who pays and for what, FY2025
The agencies that obligated the most to Sacramento, 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 Education | $5.3 billion | 68.6% |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $989.2 million | 12.7% |
| Department of Energy | $640.8 million | 8.2% |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $256.1 million | 3.3% |
| Department of Defense | $196.1 million | 2.5% |
| Department of Transportation | $75.6 million | 1.0% |
| Department of Justice | $65.6 million | 0.8% |
| Department of Homeland Security | $46.6 million | 0.6% |
| Department of Labor | $24.8 million | 0.3% |
| Department of the Interior | $24.7 million | 0.3% |
Top programs
| Program | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies Assistance Listing 84.010 | $2.2 billion | 29.0% |
| Special Education Grants to States Assistance Listing 84.027 | $1.5 billion | 18.9% |
| Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience Assistance Listing 81.254 | $630.6 million | 8.1% |
| Community Development Block Grants/State's program and Non-Entitlement Grants in Hawaii Assistance Listing 14.228 | $531.7 million | 6.8% |
| Rehabilitation Services Vocational Rehabilitation Grants to States Assistance Listing 84.126 | $399.7 million | 5.1% |
| Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers Assistance Listing 14.871 | $260.4 million | 3.4% |
| Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants (formerly Improving Teacher Quality State Grants) Assistance Listing 84.367 | $232.5 million | 3.0% |
| Federal Pell Grant Program Assistance Listing 84.063 | $230.3 million | 3.0% |
| Student Support and Academic Enrichment Program Assistance Listing 84.424 | $167.2 million | 2.2% |
| Twenty-First Century Community Learning Centers Assistance Listing 84.287 | $157.8 million | 2.0% |
Nearby on this site
Other cities in California
- Los Angeles$4.6B
- San Diego$11B
- San Jose$1.3B
- San Francisco$4.8B
- Fresno$665M
- Long Beach$3B
- Oakland$1.3B
- Bakersfield$481M
Universities in Sacramento
Questions and answers
- How much federal money does Sacramento get?
- $7.8 billion in FY2025 in awards performed in Sacramento, CA, according to USAspending.gov. That excludes most payments to individuals, which are published only by county.
- How much is that per resident?
- About $14,484 per resident, using the Census Bureau's July 2025 estimate of 536,449 people.
- Which agency spends the most in Sacramento?
- The Department of Education, with $5.3 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 (SACRAMENTO) in CA, 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 (Sacramento city).
- How the figures are built, and what they leave out: sources and methods.