Federal agency
Election Assistance Commission (EAC)
$13.5 Million committed in FY2025
- Mission
- The Commission shall serve as a national clearinghouse and resource for the compilation of information and review of procedures with respect to the administration of Federal elections by creating and maintaining voluntary voting system guidelines; providing for the testing, certification, decertification, and recertification of voting system hardware and software by accredited laboratories; periodically conducting and making available to the public studies regarding election administration issues; making payments to states to help them procure new voting equipment; developing and carrying out the Help America Vote College Program. - Public Law 107-252
- Sub-agencies
- 1 bureaus and offices
- Website
- https://www.eac.gov/ ↗
- Agency code
- 525
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how the money leaves EAC.
Grants
$13.5M
100%
Where the money goes
Top destinations of EAC's committed dollars. Direct payments to individuals (Medicare, Social Security, …) are aggregated by the government, so they show as the federal program rather than a named recipient.
Awards
The largest individual awards issued by EAC.
"to Improve the Administration of Elections for Federal Office, Including to Enhance Election Technology and Make Election Security Improvem…
Apr 25, 2025$60.2M
"to Improve the Administration of Elections for Federal Office, Including to Enhance Election Technology and Make Election Security Improvem…
Where it lands
Top states by place of performance — where EAC's work is done or its money lands, by dollars committed.
Oklahoma
$3.0M
California
$647,036
Texas
$480,764
By fiscal year
Committed dollars fell 96% across FY2018–FY2025. EAC's committed dollars per fiscal year, FY2018–FY2026.
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How to read these numbers
- Committed, not paid
Every figure is money this agency committed — legally promised by signing a contract or awarding a grant — counted in the year each action happened, not cash out the door.
- From FY2018 on
Agency pages start at fiscal year 2018, the first year of complete federal-assistance reporting. Earlier years aren't shown rather than shown wrong.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- Benefits show as programs
Medicare, Social Security, and other direct payments to individuals are aggregated by the government, so under Where the money goes they appear as the program, not a named recipient.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments
