Federal agency
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
$13.7 Million committed in FY2025
- Mission
- To protect the integrity of the federal campaign finance process by providing transparency and fairly enforcing and administering federal campaign finance laws.
- Sub-agencies
- 1 bureaus and offices
- Website
- https://www.fec.gov/ ↗
- Agency code
- 360
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how the money leaves FEC.
Contracts
$13.7M
100%
Where the money goes
Top destinations of FEC'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.
What they buy
Top products and services FEC buys under contract, by dollars committed.
It and Telecom - Business Application Software (Perpetual License Software)
$7.4M
It and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Support Services (Labor)
$3.4M
Support- Professional: Other
$380,706
Support- Management: Financial
$358,034
It and Telecom - Security and Compliance Support Services (Labor)
$320,690
Support- Management: Contract/Procurement/Acquisition Support
$307,155
Support- Professional: Legal
$255,636
Photo/Map/Print/Publication- Audio/Visual
$243,671
Support- Management: Auditing
$192,587
It and Telecom - Application Development Software (Perpetual License Software)
$155,255
Awards
The largest individual awards issued by FEC.
Competition
How competitively FEC's contract dollars were awarded. 'Not available' is legitimate sole-source (a single source — utilities, proprietary parts); 'not competed' is the flag worth a second look.
Competed
$12.7M
92%
Not competed
$1.1M
8%
Contract set-asides
Contract dollars FEC reserved before bidding for a specific kind of firm — small business, 8(a), service-disabled-veteran, women-owned, HUBZone — versus full and open competition.
Small business
$388,578
3%
Full and open
$13.3M
97%
Where it lands
Top states by place of performance — where FEC's work is done or its money lands, by dollars committed.
District of Columbia
$9.1M
Virginia
$3.8M
Maryland
$282,590
By fiscal year
Committed dollars fell 24% across FY2018–FY2025. FEC'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
