Recipient of federal assistance · SPRINGFIELD, IL

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICE

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICE received $517.7M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 57 actions, +56% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $2.2B. Its largest awarding agency was Administration for Children and Families ($517.7M).

Assistance · FY2026
$517.7M
New awards
18
Actions
57
Since FY2021
$2.2B
UEI
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Parent organization
ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS
Location
SPRINGFIELD, IL
State and local governments
Open in the explorerFederal grants & assistance

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

  1. 336.1MFY2021
  2. 341.6MFY2022
  3. 354.7MFY2023
  4. 322.7MFY2024
  5. 332.2MFY2025
  6. 517.7MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$517.7M100%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 93.658 · Foster Care Title Iv-E$260.8M50%
  2. 93.659 · Adoption Assistance$146.6M28%
  3. 93.472 · Title Iv-E Prevention Program$54.1M10%
  4. 93.556 · Marylee Allen Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program$16.7M3.2%
  5. 93.090 · Guardianship Assistance$10.2M2.0%
  6. 93.645 · Stephanie Tubbs Jones Child Welfare Services Program$9.1M1.8%
  7. 93.603 · Adoption and Legal Guardianship Incentive Payments Program$7.4M1.4%
  8. 93.674 · John H. Chafee Foster Care Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood$6.5M1.2%

Awarding agencies

  1. Administration for Children and Families$517.7M100%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. FOSTER-2026 - FOSTER CARE$225.2M
    93.658 · Foster Care Title Iv-E· Administration for Children and Families· Block grant· Oct 7, 2025 – Jul 1, 2026· 2601ILFOST
  2. FOSTER-2025 - FOSTER CARE$185.3M
    93.658 · Foster Care Title Iv-E· Administration for Children and Families· Block grant· Sep 25, 2024 – Feb 24, 2026· 2501ILFOST
  3. FOSTER-2024$149.1M
    93.658 · Foster Care Title Iv-E· Administration for Children and Families· Block grant· Sep 28, 2023 – Mar 20, 2026· 2401ILFOST
  4. ADPTASST-2026 - ADOPTION ASSISTANCE$116.7M
    93.659 · Adoption Assistance· Administration for Children and Families· Block grant· Oct 7, 2025 – Jul 1, 2026· 2601ILADPT
  5. ADPTASST-2025 - ADOPTION ASSISTANCE$114.1M
    93.659 · Adoption Assistance· Administration for Children and Families· Block grant· Sep 25, 2024 – Oct 7, 2025· 2501ILADPT
  6. ADPTASST-2024$101M
    93.659 · Adoption Assistance· Administration for Children and Families· Block grant· Sep 28, 2023 – Mar 20, 2026· 2401ILADPT

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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $107.3M paid out · $167.8K received
  • FY2022: $1.6M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2025: $8.4M paid out · $0 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.