Department of Justice federal obligations

$63.3 billion on 131,498 Justice awards

The obligation total is $63,292,860,893. Across 131,498 awards the implied mean is about $481,000 per award. Grant programs to state and local justice agencies can add many mid-sized rows; detention, IT, and other contracts occupy the rest of the mix. This packet does not split the 131,498 count by component, so FBI, BOP, or COPS shares are not stated here.

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year. Multi-year assistance can remain open, so $63,292,860,893 is not a single fiscal year’s enacted DOJ appropriation. USAspending.gov is the source.

That mix is the research takeaway from the two packet facts together. 131,498 awards at a mean near $481,000 blend justice grants with detention and IT contracts. A later extract can change both the dollar total and the award count as multi-year assistance remains open inside FY 2026.

CGAC 015 as the awarding-agency identifier

SpendingVault’s Justice hub is /agencies/015/. CGAC 015 is the USAspending awarding-agency code for the Department of Justice. Components may appear on child records while still summing into $63,292,860,893. The 131,498 figure counts award records, not cases filed, inmates, or agents.

What the obligation table leaves out

Settlements, fines, and forfeiture accounts follow other reporting paths. This hub cites $63,292,860,893 in USAspending obligations through FY 2026 on 131,498 awards. Litigation outcomes and charging statistics are not in the packet. Outlays are not in the packet.

Researchers sometimes treat an agency obligation total as cash already paid. For Department of Justice, that reading is wrong. Caseloads, inmate counts, fine-and-forfeiture ledgers, or FBI versus BOP versus COPS splits belong in other publications. The USAspending figure on this hub remains an obligation sum through FY 2026. Multi-year assistance remains open inside FY 2026.

State geography for DOJ awards

Place-of-performance for formula and discretionary justice grants often follows the grantee’s state. A nationwide contract coded to headquarters can still concentrate a slice of $63,292,860,893 in one jurisdiction. The state table is a coding view of the 131,498 awards through FY 2026, not a crime ranking.

Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete economic-impact model. On this agency, formula grants often follow the grantee state; a nationwide contract coded to headquarters can concentrate a slice in one cell. Read the state table after the agency hub, not instead of it. Read CGAC 015 as an awarding-agency rollup, not a charging report.

DOJ on the all-agencies list

Compare $63,292,860,893 and 131,498 awards only with other obligation totals from this extract. The hub does not offer legal advice and does not name defendants.

The all-agencies list is useful only inside this extract’s obligation definition and FY 2026 cap. 131,498 awards at a mean near $481,000 blend justice grants with detention and IT contracts. Ranking on dollars alone hides that mix. Read CGAC 015 as an awarding-agency rollup, not a charging report.

DOJ’s whole-dollar total in this extract

The packet stores $63,292,860,893 without cents. That is the obligation sum on 131,498 awards tagged 015 through FY 2026. Settlements and forfeiture accounts follow other reporting paths and are not cited. A later USAspending extract can revise both the dollar total and the 131,498 count as new actions and modifications post against CGAC 015. Until that refresh, the documented book is 63292860893 in obligations. That figure is not a performance score, not an enacted one-year appropriation, and not a recommendation to apply for funds. It is the award-file rollup this packet carries through FY 2026.

The 131,498 figure counts records, not cases. Component splits are not packet facts. Use the state table as place-of-performance coding, not as a crime ranking. CGAC 015 is the awarding-agency identifier on every row in this rollup, and the overlay path stays /agencies/015/. The award population is 131,498 records. Those rows still sum to the same obligation total through fiscal year 2026. Readers who need place-of-performance should open the state table from that hub; readers who need peer context should open the all-agencies list. Neither view converts obligations into outlays. CGAC 015 is the awarding-agency identifier on every row in this rollup, and the overlay path stays /agencies/015/. The award population is 131,498 records. Those rows still sum to the same obligation total through fiscal year 2026. Readers who need place-of-performance should open the state table from that hub; readers who need peer context should open the all-agencies list. Neither view converts obligations into outlays.

Questions

How much has the Department of Justice obligated through FY 2026?

DOJ awarding-agency records (CGAC 015) sum to $63,292,860,893 across 131,498 awards in this USAspending extract. That figure is an obligation total through fiscal year 2026, not a fine-and-forfeiture ledger and not a case count.

What is CGAC 015?

CGAC 015 is the USAspending awarding-agency code for the Department of Justice. SpendingVault’s DOJ hub uses that code. The $63,292,860,893 obligation total and 131,498 award count roll up rows carrying 015 through FY 2026.

Does the award count include every COPS or OJP grant?

Only if those grants appear as USAspending rows tagged to awarding-agency 015 in this extract. The published totals are $63,292,860,893 and 131,498 awards through FY 2026. Component-level splits are not in this packet.

Where can I see Justice spending by state?

The state table from the CGAC 015 agency page uses place-of-performance fields on the same obligation extract. Geography rows still sit under $63,292,860,893 and 131,498 awards through FY 2026.