Where federal tax dollars land around BRIGHTON
Federal contracts, grants and other awards with work performed in the county containing BRIGHTON, CO — the yearly total, the biggest agencies and the largest recipients.
USAspending.gov API, federal awards by place of performance.
This story was assembled using AI and public data sources.
$4.7B in federal awards was spent in Adams County.
Federal awards, FY 2025: $4.7B — $9,037 per county resident
Federal awards in Adams County, by fiscal year
- 2016: 2009960534
- 2017: 2535238180
- 2018: 2751075432
- 2019: 3106379007
- 2020: 4152971644
- 2021: 4352352973
- 2022: 3450946133
- 2023: 3611408233
- 2024: 3711794558
- 2025: 4739046857
Biggest awarding agencies
- Department of Health and Human Services: 1735892364
- Social Security Administration: 1648790431
- Department of Agriculture: 645335240
- Department of Veterans Affairs: 327809569
- Department of Transportation: 104970910
- Department of Defense: 60591263
Largest recipients
- MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS: 3373999772
- TRI-STATE GENERATION AND TRANSMISSION ASSOCIATION, INC.: 624002339
- THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: 264596880
- CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER: 60630460
- SOLID POWER OPERATING, INC: 50000000
- COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: 41516712
What it means
Department of Health and Human Services accounts for the largest share — $1.7B of the $4.7B total.
That works out to about $9,037 for every resident of the county, counting contracts, grants, loans and direct payments.
Place of performance means the work happened here — the money may be awarded to a company or agency headquartered elsewhere, and multi-year awards can land in a single year's total.
Sources
- U.S. Census Bureau — American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates — Population, income, housing, education, commuting and poverty figures
- Census Bureau API — ACS Detailed Tables — The endpoint these pages are generated from
- data.census.gov — Look up the same tables for any place yourself
- ACS accuracy statement — Estimates carry margins of error; small places vary the most
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