Federal Trade Commission

What the $630.2 million USAspending total actually records

USAspending.gov reports the Federal Trade Commission as awarding agency 029 with $630,178,065.48 obligated through FY2026. An obligation is a legal commitment to spend: a signed contract, a grant award, or another binding instrument. It is not the same as an outlay, which is money that has left the Treasury. The $630.2 million therefore tells you how much this independent commission has committed on awards in the USAspending extract, not how much has already been disbursed to vendors or grantees.

The FTC’s public mission is consumer protection and competition enforcement. The USAspending table does not score that mission. It does not count investigations opened, cases filed, or refunds returned to consumers. It counts award instruments. A facilities lease, an expert-witness contract, an IT support task order, and a cooperative agreement can all sit inside the same $630,178,065.48. Readers who want program results need the agency’s own reports; readers who want the federal award ledger start here.

967 awards and the size of a typical FTC obligation

The same extract lists 967 awards. Dividing $630,178,065.48 by 967 produces an average of about $651,684 per award. That average is a ratio, not a typical check size. A handful of multi-year operations contracts can pull the mean well above a cluster of small purchase orders. The packet does not publish a median, a maximum, or a split between contracts and assistance, so this page does not invent one.

Nine hundred sixty-seven instruments is a mid-volume book for a small independent agency. It is large enough that the state breakdown matters: the same dollars do not all land in the District of Columbia, even when headquarters does. SpendingVault’s state table for CGAC 029 is the place to see which jurisdictions received FTC-awarded work. The award count also means the agency page is a roll-up. Opening a single award record on USAspending.gov is the only way to see a vendor name, NAICS code, or period of performance.

Questions

How much has the Federal Trade Commission obligated on USAspending?

USAspending.gov shows $630,178,065.48 in Federal Trade Commission obligations through fiscal year 2026. The total is an awarding-agency figure under CGAC code 029 and covers 967 awards. It records legal commitments, not Treasury outlays, and it is not the FTC’s single-year appropriation.

How many USAspending awards has the FTC made?

The extract lists 967 awards for awarding agency 029. That count mixes contracts, grants, and other instruments in the USAspending warehouse. It does not equal the number of enforcement actions or consumer complaints. Average obligation is about $651,684 if you divide the $630.2 million total by 967.

What does agency code 029 mean?

029 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the Federal Trade Commission. SpendingVault uses that code in URLs such as /agencies/029/. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations attributed to that CGAC through FY2026.

Does the $630 million include money already paid to contractors?

Not necessarily. USAspending obligations are commitments. Outlays—cash paid—can lag, match, or in some cases precede a modification. The packet does not publish an outlay total for the FTC, so this page does not estimate how much of the $630,178,065.48 has been disbursed.