Recipient of federal assistance · HARTFORD, CT
DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES
DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES received $126.4M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 62 actions, +38% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $707.2M. Its largest awarding agency was Administration for Children and Families ($124.9M).
- Assistance · FY2026
- $126.4M
- New awards
- 15
- Actions
- 62
- Since FY2021
- $707.2M
- UEI
- DWN5MBGAT2F8
- Location
- HARTFORD, CT
Federal grants & assistance received
Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.
Assistance by fiscal year
- 111.8MFY2021
- 144.1MFY2022
- 126.5MFY2023
- 106.5MFY2024
- 91.9MFY2025
- 126.4MFY2026
By type
- Grants$126.4M100%
Top programs · Awarding agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
Top programs
- 93.658 · Foster Care Title Iv-E$55.8M44%
- 93.659 · Adoption Assistance$52.9M42%
- 93.090 · Guardianship Assistance$5.6M4.4%
- 93.556 · Marylee Allen Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program$2.8M2.2%
- 93.645 · Stephanie Tubbs Jones Child Welfare Services Program$1.9M1.5%
- 93.087 · Enhance Safety of Children Affected by Substance Abuse$1.6M1.3%
- 93.104 · Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances (SED)$1.5M1.2%
- 93.674 · John H. Chafee Foster Care Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood$1.5M1.2%
Awarding agencies
- Administration for Children and Families$124.9M99%Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Health and Human Services
Largest awards
- ADPTASST-2024$53.1M93.659 · Adoption Assistance· Administration for Children and Families· Block grant· Sep 28, 2023 – Mar 25, 2026· 2401CTADPT
- FOSTER-2024$52.6M93.658 · Foster Care Title Iv-E· Administration for Children and Families· Block grant· Sep 28, 2023 – Mar 27, 2026· 2401CTFOST
- 93.659 · Adoption Assistance· Administration for Children and Families· Block grant· Sep 25, 2024 – Dec 31, 2025· 2501CTADPT
- 93.659 · Adoption Assistance· Administration for Children and Families· Block grant· Oct 7, 2025 – Jul 1, 2026· 2601CTADPT
- 93.658 · Foster Care Title Iv-E· Administration for Children and Families· Block grant· Sep 25, 2024 – Dec 31, 2025· 2501CTFOST
- 93.658 · Foster Care Title Iv-E· Administration for Children and Families· Block grant· Oct 7, 2025 – Jul 1, 2026· 2601CTFOST
Subawards
Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.
As a prime: who it pays · FY2026
No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.
As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026
- Sub-grants: $149.2K (5 subawards)
1 prime
- CT DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$149.2K100%HARTFORD, CT · 5 subawards
By fiscal year
- FY2021: $0 paid out · $337K received
- FY2022: $0 paid out · $2.8M received
- FY2023: $0 paid out · $366.7K received
- FY2024: $0 paid out · $378.1K received
- FY2025: $0 paid out · $398.4K received
- FY2026: $0 paid out · $149.2K received
Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.
Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.
Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.