Where federal tax dollars land around DOLORES
Federal contracts, grants and other awards with work performed in the county containing DOLORES, 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.
$251.0M in federal awards was spent in Montezuma County.
Federal awards, FY 2025: $251.0M — $9,577 per county resident
Federal awards in Montezuma County, by fiscal year
- 2016: 128822198
- 2017: 143475062
- 2018: 155683705
- 2019: 167076460
- 2020: 227078451
- 2021: 223020147
- 2022: 245996319
- 2023: 221079481
- 2024: 225541092
- 2025: 250964737
Biggest awarding agencies
- Social Security Administration: 169485081
- Department of the Interior: 21393776
- Department of Veterans Affairs: 21357507
- Department of Transportation: 18514113
- Environmental Protection Agency: 5405487
- Department of Agriculture: 5275437
Largest recipients
- MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS: 191749327
- UTE MOUNTAIN UTE TRIBE: 15788437
- CITY OF CORTEZ: 8643727
- SOUTHERN UTE INDIAN TRIBE: 8033904
- KEY LIME AIR CORPORATION: 7093358
- COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION: 2801214
What it means
Social Security Administration accounts for the largest share — $169.5M of the $251.0M total.
That works out to about $9,577 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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