Philanthropy and President Bush’s Budget: the Key Proposals
February 20, 2003 | Read Time: 2 minutes
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| Spending in fiscal 2002 1 | Proposed for fiscal 2004 | |
| Corporation for Public Broadcasting 2 | $375,000,000 | $380,000,000 |
| Historic preservation | $74,500,000 | $67,000,000 |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | $194,977,000 | $242,024,000 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | $117,000,000 | $117,000,000 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | $124,000,000 | $152,000,000 |
| National Gallery of Art | $83,200,000 | $100,400,000 |
| Smithsonian Institution | $499,000,000 | $566,500,000 |
| Community Development Block Grants | $5,000,000,000 | $4,716,000,000 |
| Grants to help low-income home buyers | $1,796,000,000 | $2,197,000,000 |
| Homelessness assistance grants | $1,123,000,000 | $1,325,000,000 |
| Housing for the chronically homeless | 0 | $50,000,000 |
| Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS | $277,000,000 | $297,000,000 |
| Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program 1 | $1,700,000,000 | $1,700,000,000 |
| Public Housing Operating Fund | $3,495,000,000 | $3,574,000,000 |
| Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program | $22,000,000 | $65,000,000 |
| 21st Century Community Learning Centers | $1,000,000,000 | $600,000,000 |
| Adult education | $591,060,000 | $591,000,000 |
| Education for the handicapped | $8,335,533,000 | $10,365,533 |
| Elementary and secondary education for poor children | $10,350,000,000 | $12,350,000,000 |
| Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education | $180,922,000 | $39,100,000 |
| Head Start | $6,537,000,000 | $6,816,000,000 |
| Job training and employment services | $5,629,700,000 | $6,388,800,000 |
| Vocational education | $1,314,500,000 | 0 |
| AIDS prevention and treatment | $1,911,000,000 | $2,010,000,000 |
| Community Service Block Grants | $650,000,000 | $495,000,000 |
| Family planning | $266,000,000 | $265,000,000 |
| Grants to local health-care centers | $1,343,000,000 | $1,627,000,000 |
| Health services for American Indians | $2,758,000,000 | $2,890,000,000 |
| Individual Development Accounts (savings plans for the poor) | $25,000,000 | $25,000,000 |
| Maternal and Child Health Block Grants | $731,000,000 | $751,000,000 |
| Maternity group homes | 0 | $10,000,000 |
| Medicaid | $147,512,000,000 | $176,754,000,000 |
| Medicare | $231,226,000,000 | $258,869,000,000 |
| Promoting Safe and Stable Families | $375,000,000 | $505,000,000 |
| Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration | $3,141,000,000 | $3,393,000,000 |
| Citizen Corps | 0 | $181,000,000 |
| Corporation for National Service: | $735,940,000 | $962,405,000 |
| AmeriCorps awards | $240,492,000 | $313,242,000 |
| AmeriCorps program administration | $31,000,000 | $36,000,000 |
| Learn and Serve America | $43,000,000 | $43,000,000 |
| National Civilian Community Corps | $25,000,000 | $27,000,000 |
| National Senior Service Corps | $206,379,000 | $212,147,000 |
| National Service Trust | 0 | $120,000,000 |
| Points of Light Foundation | $10,000,000 | $10,000,000 |
| VISTA | $85,287,000 | $94,287,000 |
| Peace Corps | $275,000,000 | $359,000,000 |
| USA Freedom Corps | 0 | $15,000,000 |
| National Institutes of Health | $23,561,000,000 | $27,893,000,000 |
| National Science Foundation | $4,774,060,000 | $5,481,200,000 |
| Aging | $1,349,000,000 | $1,344,000,000 |
| Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives | 0 | $1,000,000 |
| Child care | $2,365,000,000 | $2,813,000,000 |
| Child nutrition | $10,729,000,000 | $11,821,000,000 |
| Child-welfare and child-abuse services | $421,000,000 | $421,000,000 |
| Commodity Supplemental Food Program | $104,000,000 | $95,000,000 |
| Compassion Capital Fund | $30,000,000 | $100,000,000 |
| Developmental disabilities | $140,000,000 | $140,000,000 |
| Domestic violenceprevention grants | $184,737,000 | 0 |
| Education vouchers for foster children | 0 | $60,000,000 |
| Food Stamps | $21,952,000,000 | $25,601,000,000 |
| Foster care and adoption | $6,622,000,000 | $6,839,000,000 |
| Juvenile justice | $299,000,000 | 0 |
| Legal Services Corporation | $329,000,000 | $329,000,000 |
| Nutrition Services Incentives Program | $150,000,000 | $150,000,000 |
| Recruiting mentors for children of prisoners | 0 | $50,000,000 |
| Refugee and Entrant Assistance | $461,000,000 | $428,000,000 |
| Responsible Fatherhood and Promoting Marriage Initiative | 0 | $20,000,000 |
| Runaways and homeless youths | $103,000,000 | $103,000,000 |
| Social Services Block Grants | $1,700,000,000 | $1,700,000,000 |
| Soup kitchens, food banks, and Emergency Food Assistance Program | $190,000,000 | $190,000,000 |
| Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | $16,567,000,000 | $16,567,000,000 |
| 1. Congress had not yet approved spending in fiscal 2003 for most programs when the President’s 2004 budget was issued 2. Figures reflect amounts already approved because money is appropriated two years in advance. 3. Figures shown are for fiscal 2003 and 2005 because money is appropriated one year in advance. |
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