State profileFiscal year 2025Federal awards
How much federal money does Guam get?
Guam received $4.9 billion in federal money in FY2025.In fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to September 2025), federal agencies obligated $4.9 billion in contracts, grants, loans and direct payments with a place of performance in Guam.
What the money is
That is up 22.6% from FY2024 ($4.0 billion). Compared with FY2019, the last year before pandemic relief, it is up 153.5%. The largest share came as contracts ($3.3 billion, 68.3% of the total). The agency obligating the most was the Department of Defense with $3.3 billion, and the biggest single program was Social Security Retirement Insurance (Assistance Listing 96.002) at $274.8 million.
For FY2026, which ended on 30 September 2026, $3.3 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.
Federal money to Guam by year
Guam: $4.9B in FY2025, up 153% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2018 | $884.8M | $345.2M | $414.6M | $315,521 | $17.2M | $1.7B |
| FY2019 | $1.1B | $419.8M | $434.8M | $348,487 | $905,570 | $1.9B |
| FY2020 | $1.3B | $1.1B | $636.5M | $209.3M | $96,089 | $3.2B |
| FY2021 | $2.1B | $1.7B | $1.3B | $111.7M | $18.6M | $5.2B |
| FY2022 | $1.8B | $577.3M | $597.8M | $6.2M | $22.1M | $3.0B |
| FY2023 | $2.4B | $581.2M | $716.2M | $23.5M | $9.7M | $3.7B |
| FY2024 | $2.5B | $776.5M | $661.0M | -$8.2M | $1.2M | $4.0B |
| FY2025 | $3.3B | $802.4M | $733.7M | -$1.4M | $2.0M | $4.9B |
| FY2026* | $1.7B | $812.1M | $762.0M | $352,753 | $1.2M | $3.3B |
Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Treasury).
Who pays and for what, FY2025
The agencies that obligated the most to Guam, 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 | $3.3 billion | 68.1% |
| Social Security Administration | $345.3 million | 7.1% |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $264.4 million | 5.4% |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $185.5 million | 3.8% |
| Department of Transportation | $176.6 million | 3.6% |
| Department of Agriculture | $170.2 million | 3.5% |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $98.2 million | 2.0% |
| Department of Education | $70.5 million | 1.5% |
| Department of Energy | $57.0 million | 1.2% |
| Environmental Protection Agency | $49.5 million | 1.0% |
Top programs
| Program | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Social Security Retirement Insurance Assistance Listing 96.002 | $274.8 million | 5.7% |
| Grants to States for Medicaid Assistance Listing 93.778 | $173.7 million | 3.6% |
| Veterans Compensation for Service-Connected Disability Assistance Listing 64.109 | $155.0 million | 3.2% |
| Highway Planning and Construction Assistance Listing 20.205 | $134.5 million | 2.8% |
| Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Assistance Listing 10.551 | $119.1 million | 2.5% |
| Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers Assistance Listing 14.871 | $52.9 million | 1.1% |
| State Energy Program Assistance Listing 81.041 | $50.3 million | 1.0% |
| Environmental Protection Consolidated Grants for the Insular Areas - Program Support Assistance Listing 66.600 | $42.6 million | 0.9% |
| Social Security Survivors Insurance Assistance Listing 96.004 | $41.5 million | 0.9% |
| Consolidated Grant to the Outlying Areas Assistance Listing 84.403 | $35.9 million | 0.7% |
Where the money goes inside Guam
Cities and universities with their own pages, by FY2025 federal awards.
Universities and colleges in Guam
Questions and answers
- How much federal money did Guam get in 2025?
- In fiscal year 2025, federal agencies obligated $4.9 billion in awards with a place of performance in Guam, according to USAspending.gov.
- Which federal agency spends the most in Guam?
- The Department of Defense, with $3.3 billion in FY2025 (68.1% of the total).
- What is the largest federal program in Guam?
- Social Security Retirement Insurance (Assistance Listing 96.002), with $274.8 million obligated in FY2025.
- Has federal spending in Guam gone up?
- Yes. FY2025 obligations of $4.9 billion compare with $1.9 billion in FY2019, a change of 153.5%.
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 = GU, fiscal years 2018–2026. Amounts are obligations in nominal dollars. Data retrieved 2026-10-04. Public domain.
- The Census Bureau's annual population estimates do not cover this territory, so no per-resident figures are shown.
- How the figures are built, and what they leave out: sources and methods.