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University profileOrlando, FLFiscal year 2025

How much federal money does Valencia College get?

Valencia College received $142.5 million in federal awards in FY2025, 131st of 998 institutions (top 13%).In fiscal year 2025, federal agencies obligated $142.5 million to Valencia College (Orlando, FL), counting grants, contracts, loans and other awards.

FY2025 total
$143M
$142.5 million
Grants
-$71K
-0% of total
Contracts
$0
0% of total
Rank
131st
of 998 institutions

Ranked 131st of 998 by federal awards

FY2025 federal awards, institutions ranked either side of Valencia College.

University of Alabama #128 · AL$149M
University of Texas at San Antonio #129 · TX$147M
Texas State University #130 · TX$144M
Valencia College #131 · FL$143M
University of Louisville #132 · KY$142M
Texas A&M Agrilife Research #133 · TX$140M
Nevada System of Higher Education (Las Vegas) #134 · NV$138M

What the money is

That is up 32.4% from FY2024 ($107.7 million). The largest share came as direct payments ($142.6 million, 100.0%). The Department of Education was the biggest funder ($143.0 million). Its largest programs were Federal Pell Grant Program ($138.3 million); Federal Work-Study Program ($2.2 million); Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants ($2.1 million). It ranks 131st of the 998 institutions on this site by FY2025 total.

What is counted: awards made directly to this institution, under the registered names VALENCIA COLLEGE (UEI KM9HFDWLATK3). Money that reaches it as a subaward through another organization is not included. Separately incorporated foundations, hospitals and laboratories have their own records and are not added in. Grouping rules are explained in the methodology.

Federal awards by year

Valencia College: $143M in FY2025

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
$0$50M$100M$150MFY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26*$143M$0$50M$100M$150M'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26*$143M
View every year as a table
Fiscal yearContractsGrantsDirect paymentsLoansInsurance and otherTotal
FY2018$0$0$0$0$0$0
FY2019$0$0$0$0$0$0
FY2020$0$0$0$0$0$0
FY2021$0$0$0$0$0$0
FY2022$0$0$37.4M$0$0$37.4M
FY2023$0$0$91.4M$0$0$91.4M
FY2024$0$2.0M$105.6M$0$0$107.7M
FY2025$0-$70,600$142.6M$0$0$142.5M
FY2026*$0$0$133.4M$0$0$133.4M

B = billion, M = million. Loans are the subsidy cost the government records. * FY2026 (October 2025 to September 2026) is preliminary: agencies keep reporting after the year ends, and Department of Defense contract data is published with a 90-day delay. Negative amounts are net de-obligations (money taken back from earlier awards).

Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Treasury).

Who pays and for what, FY2025

The agencies that obligated the most to Valencia College, 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

AgencyFY2025Share
Department of Education$143.0 million100.3%
Department of Labor$00.0%
National Science Foundation-$411,832-0.3%

Top programs

ProgramFY2025Share
Federal Pell Grant Program Assistance Listing 84.063$138.3 million97.0%
Federal Work-Study Program Assistance Listing 84.033$2.2 million1.5%
Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants Assistance Listing 84.007$2.1 million1.5%
Child Care Access Means Parents in School Assistance Listing 84.335$341,2320.2%
Federal Direct Student Loans Assistance Listing 84.268$00.0%
YouthBuild Assistance Listing 17.274$00.0%
STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) Assistance Listing 47.076-$411,832-0.3%

Other institutions in Florida

All institutions in Florida

Federal money to Florida

Questions and answers

How much federal funding does Valencia College receive?
$142.5 million in fiscal year 2025, according to USAspending.gov award data for its registered UEI(s).
Where does Valencia College's federal money come from?
The largest funder in FY2025 was the Department of Education ($143.0 million, 100.3%). By type, grants were -$70,600 and contracts $0.
Did Valencia College's federal funding go up or down?
FY2025: $142.5 million; FY2024: $107.7 million (+32.4%).

Sources and notes

  1. USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), API endpoints spending_over_time and spending_by_category, filtered by recipient ID(s) c37df955-0bc4-db2f-89d1-26d89924763f-C, fiscal years 2018–2026. Amounts are obligations in nominal dollars. Data retrieved 2026-10-04. Public domain.
  2. How the figures are built, and what they leave out: sources and methods.