State profileFiscal year 2025Federal awards
How much federal money does Connecticut get?
Connecticut received $73.1 billion in federal money in FY2025: $19,832 per person, 4th of 51.In fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025), federal agencies obligated $73.1 billion in contracts, grants, loans and direct payments with a place of performance in Connecticut, or $19,832 per resident.
Connecticut ranks 4th of 51 per resident
Federal awards per resident, FY2025, 50 states and DC, highest to lowest. Dashed line: US average.
What the money is
That is up 35.6% from FY2024 ($53.9 billion). Compared with FY2019, the last year before pandemic relief, it is up 65.0%. The largest share came as contracts ($35.1 billion, 48.0% of the total). The agency obligating the most was the Department of Defense with $34.8 billion, and the biggest single program was Social Security Retirement Insurance (Assistance Listing 96.002) at $16.2 billion. Among the 50 states and DC, Connecticut ranks 19th by total and 4th per resident (full ranking).
For FY2026, which ended on 30 September 2026, $58.5 billion has been reported so far. That figure will rise as late reports arrive, so the comparisons on this page use FY2025, the latest complete year.
These are award obligations recorded on USAspending.gov, the official source for federal award data. They include Social Security and other direct payments, Medicaid and other grants to the state, and federal contracts performed there. They do not include federal salaries, interest on the debt, or tax refunds.
Medicare is left out. USAspending records Medicare benefit payments (Parts A, B and D) at the location of the contractor that processes the claims, not where patients live, so they would distort this state. In FY2025, $80.5 billion of Medicare payments was recorded in this state; it is not in the figures on this page.
Federal money to Connecticut by year
Connecticut: $73B in FY2025, up 65% 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 | $15.1B | $8.5B | $14.6B | -$11.2M | $593.4M | $38.9B | – |
| FY2019 | $18.9B | $9.5B | $15.4B | -$75.8M | $629.3M | $44.3B | – |
| FY2020 | $23.0B | $10.8B | $18.4B | $7.0B | $627.4M | $59.8B | $16,701 |
| FY2021 | $18.4B | $14.1B | $22.8B | $3.2B | $687.9M | $59.2B | $16,411 |
| FY2022 | $22.3B | $12.4B | $18.4B | $24,410 | $760.7M | $53.9B | $14,886 |
| FY2023 | $26.0B | $14.1B | $20.1B | -$102.1M | $315.1M | $60.4B | $16,590 |
| FY2024 | $20.0B | $12.7B | $21.2B | -$41.3M | $36.1M | $53.9B | $14,679 |
| FY2025 | $35.1B | $15.0B | $23.1B | -$135.6M | $28.9M | $73.1B | $19,832 |
| FY2026* | $23.3B | $13.0B | $22.4B | -$275.0M | $32.5M | $58.5B | – |
Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Treasury).
How Connecticut compares
Federal money per resident: Connecticut and its neighbouring states
FY2025, dollars per resident. Grey bars are other states; the dark bar is the US average.
| Connecticut (this page) | $19,832 |
| Massachusetts | $12,998 |
| Rhode Island | $12,301 |
| New York | $12,150 |
| US average (50 states + DC) | $11,781 |
Who pays and for what, FY2025
The agencies that obligated the most to Connecticut, 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 Defense | $34.8 billion | 47.6% |
| Social Security Administration | $19.6 billion | 26.8% |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $9.2 billion | 12.6% |
| Department of Transportation | $3.3 billion | 4.5% |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $1.2 billion | 1.7% |
| Department of Agriculture | $1.2 billion | 1.7% |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $1.1 billion | 1.5% |
| Department of Education | $926.7 million | 1.3% |
| Environmental Protection Agency | $783.4 million | 1.1% |
| Department of Homeland Security | $246.2 million | 0.3% |
Top programs
| Program | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Social Security Retirement Insurance Assistance Listing 96.002 | $16.2 billion | 22.1% |
| Grants to States for Medicaid Assistance Listing 93.778 | $7.2 billion | 9.8% |
| Social Security Disability Insurance Assistance Listing 96.001 | $1.6 billion | 2.2% |
| Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Assistance Listing 20.326 | $1.6 billion | 2.2% |
| Social Security Survivors Insurance Assistance Listing 96.004 | $1.2 billion | 1.6% |
| Highway Planning and Construction Assistance Listing 20.205 | $1.1 billion | 1.5% |
| Veterans Compensation for Service-Connected Disability Assistance Listing 64.109 | $877.0 million | 1.2% |
| Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Assistance Listing 10.551 | $779.2 million | 1.1% |
| Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers Assistance Listing 14.871 | $716.3 million | 1.0% |
| Supplemental Security Income Assistance Listing 96.006 | $591.2 million | 0.8% |
Where the money goes inside Connecticut
Cities and universities with their own pages, by FY2025 federal awards.
Universities and colleges in Connecticut
- Yale University$796M
- University of Connecticut (Storrs)$129M
- Post University$94M
- Community-Technical College$87M
- University of Connecticut Health Center$60M
- University of Connecticut (Storrs Mansfield)$58M
- Central Connecticut State University$25M
- University of New Haven$14M
Questions and answers
- How much federal money did Connecticut get in 2025?
- In fiscal year 2025, federal agencies obligated $73.1 billion in awards with a place of performance in Connecticut, according to USAspending.gov.
- How much federal money does Connecticut get per person?
- About $19,832 per resident in FY2025, using the Census Bureau's July 2025 population estimate of 3,688,496.
- Which federal agency spends the most in Connecticut?
- The Department of Defense, with $34.8 billion in FY2025 (47.6% of the total).
- What is the largest federal program in Connecticut?
- Social Security Retirement Insurance (Assistance Listing 96.002), with $16.2 billion obligated in FY2025.
- Has federal spending in Connecticut gone up?
- Yes. FY2025 obligations of $73.1 billion compare with $44.3 billion in FY2019, a change of 65.0%.
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 state = CT, fiscal years 2018–2026. Amounts are obligations in nominal dollars. Data retrieved 2026-10-04. Public domain.
- U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates (July 1 of each year). Per-resident figures use the estimate for the July inside the fiscal year.
- How the figures are built, and what they leave out: sources and methods.