Every contract, grant, loan and direct payment the federal government committed for District of Columbia in fiscal year 2025: which agencies, under which programs, who received it, and where in the state.
District of Columbia carries 0.0% of the nation’s Medicare but has 0.20% of its people. USAspending publishes Medicare in aggregate, and the state it records does not follow where beneficiaries live, so District of Columbia's residents received far more Medicare than the $198M recorded here. The per-person figure above leaves Medicare out for that reason; the total includes it.
Award obligations, the amounts committed in the year, by the place where the work is done or the money is received, as agencies reported them to USAspending.gov. Social Security is counted where the people who receive it live; Medicare is not (see its figure above). Not here: federal employees’ salaries, the running of agencies, and interest on the debt, which are not awards. Per person uses the Census Bureau's estimate of 693,645 residents on 1 July 2025.
What kind of awards
Contracts64.2%$31,435,326,908
Grants28.3%$13,826,463,089
Direct payments7.4%$3,634,965,350
Other assistance0.1%$39,214,864
Awards by kind100%$48,935,970,211
Loans are their subsidy cost, the government's expected loss, not the amount lent.
Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement (PRIIA) Projects for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)Assistance listing 20.524$149M0.3%
Special Education Grants to StatesAssistance listing 84.027$129M0.3%
Social Security Survivors InsuranceAssistance listing 96.004$120M0.2%
Title I Grants to Local Educational AgenciesAssistance listing 84.010$109M0.2%
Office for Coastal ManagementAssistance listing 11.473$107M0.2%
Temporary Assistance for Needy FamiliesAssistance listing 93.558$103M0.2%
Federal Pell Grant ProgramAssistance listing 84.063$84M0.2%
Mathematical and Physical SciencesAssistance listing 47.049$78M0.2%
USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs OverseasAssistance listing 98.001$75M0.2%
National School Lunch ProgramAssistance listing 10.555$70M0.1%
Highway Research and Development ProgramAssistance listing 20.200$68M0.1%
Public Housing Operating FundAssistance listing 14.850$67M0.1%
Children's Health Insurance ProgramAssistance listing 93.767$57M0.1%
DC Opportunity Scholarship ProgramAssistance listing 84.370$52M0.1%
Drinking Water State Revolving FundAssistance listing 66.468$49M0.1%
State Administrative Matching Grants for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ProgramAssistance listing 10.561$48M0.1%
Named recipients of awards performed in District of Columbia, as USAspending records them. Payments to individuals have no name and are not in this list.
The same awards by the congressional district USAspending records for the place of performance. Some awards carry no district, so these add to less than the state’s total. Each opens the district's own page.
From USAspending.gov: prime award obligations with a place of performance in District of Columbia, fiscal year 2025 (by action date). A recipient’s own address can be elsewhere; the place is where the work is done or the payment received.