The Nonprofit World and President Bush’s Budget: Key Proposals
February 19, 2004 | Read Time: 2 minutes
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| Spending in fiscal 2004 | Proposed for fiscal 2005 | |
| Arts and Culture | ||
| Corporation for Public Broadcasting1 | $437,000,000 | $390,000,000 |
| Historic Preservation Fund | $74,000,000 | $78,000,000 |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | $262,240,000 | $262,240,000 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | $121,000,000 | $139,400,000 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | $135,000,000 | $162,000,000 |
| National Gallery of Art | $87,000,000 | $93,000,000 |
| Smithsonian Institution | $596,300,000 | $628,000,000 |
| Spending in fiscal 2004 | Proposed for fiscal 2005 | |
| Community Development and Housing | ||
| Community Development Block Grants | $4,934,000,000 | $4,618,000,000 |
| Grants to help low-income home buyers | $2,006,000,000 | $2,084,000,000 |
| Homelessness-assistance grants | $1,260,000,000 | $1,257,000,000 |
| Housing for the chronically homeless | $0 | $50,000,000 |
| Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS | $295,000,000 | $295,000,000 |
| Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program2 | $1,789,000,000 | $1,800,000,000 |
| Public Housing Operating Fund | $3,579,000,000 | $3,573,000,000 |
| Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program | $27,000,000 | $65,000,000 |
| Spending in fiscal 2004 | Proposed for fiscal 2005 | |
| Education and Job Training | ||
| 21st Century Community Learning Centers | $999,100,000 | $999,100,000 |
| Adult education | $590,200,000 | $590,200,000 |
| Education for the handicapped | $10,068,100,000 | $11,068,100,000 |
| Elementary and secondary education for poor children | $12,342,300,000 | $13,342,300,000 |
| Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education | $157,700,000 | $32,000,000 |
| Head Start | $6,775,000,000 | $6,944,000,000 |
| Job training and employment services | $6,539,200,000 | $6,543,600,000 |
| Vocational-education grants3 | $1,195,000,000 | – |
| Spending in fiscal 2004 | Proposed for fiscal 2005 | |
| Health | ||
| AIDS prevention and treatment | $2,045,000,000 | $2,080,000,000 |
| Community Service Block Grants | $642,000,000 | $495,000,000 |
| Family planning | $278,000,000 | $278,000,000 |
| Grants to local health-care centers | $1,617,000,000 | $1,836,000,000 |
| Health services for American Indians | $2,922,000,000 | $2,967,000,000 |
| Maternal and Child Health Block Grants | $730,000,000 | $730,000,000 |
| Maternity group homes | $0 | $10,000,000 |
| Medicaid | $183,000,000,000 | $188,000,000,000 |
| Medicare | $266,000,000,000 | $290,000,000,000 |
| Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration | $3,351,000,000 | $3,550,000,000 |
| Spending in fiscal 2004 | Proposed for fiscal 2005 | |
| National Service | ||
| Citizen Corps | $40,000,000 | $50,000,000 |
| Corporation for National Service: | $935,367,000 | $1,018,000,000 |
| AmeriCorps awards | $312,147,000 | $292,000,000 |
| AmeriCorps program administration | $40,000,000 | $43,000,000 |
| Learn and Serve America | $43,000,000 | $46,000,000 |
| National Civilian Community Corps | $25,000,000 | $27,000,000 |
| National Senior Service Corps | $214,000,000 | $224,000,000 |
| National Service Trust | $129,000,000 | $160,000,000 |
| Points of Light Foundation | $10,000,000 | $10,000,000 |
| VISTA | $93,700,000 | $96,000,000 |
| Peace Corps | $308,000,000 | $401,000,000 |
| Spending in fiscal 2004 | Proposed for fiscal 2005 | |
| Scientific Research | ||
| National Institutes of Health | $28,041,057,000 | $28,804,757,000 |
| National Science Foundation | $5,577,830,000 | $5,745,000,000 |
| Spending in fiscal 2004 | Proposed for fiscal 2005 | |
| Social Services | ||
| Aging | $1,377,000,000 | $1,380,000,000 |
| Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 |
| Child care | $2,866,000,000 | $2,719,000,000 |
| Child nutrition | $11,676,000,000 | $12,037,000,000 |
| Child-welfare and child-abuse services | $426,000,000 | $473,000,000 |
| Commodity Supplemental Food Program | $110,000,000 | $98,000,000 |
| Compassion Capital Fund | $48,000,000 | $100,000,000 |
| Developmental disabilities | $165,000,000 | $165,000,000 |
| Domestic violence-prevention grants4 | $20,000,000 | – |
| Food Stamps | $28,468,000,000 | $30,497,000,000 |
| Foster care and adoption | $6,813,000,000 | $6,765,000,000 |
| Individual Development Accounts (savings plans for the poor) | $25,000,000 | $25,000,000 |
| Juvenile Justice4 | $320,000,000 | – |
| Legal Services Corporation | $341,000,000 | $329,000,000 |
| Nutrition Services Incentives Program | $148,000,000 | $149,000,000 |
| Promoting Safe and Stable Families | $404,000,000 | $505,000,000 |
| Recruiting mentors for children of prisoners | $50,000,000 | $50,000,000 |
| Refugee and Entrant Assistance | $394,000,000 | $419,000,000 |
| Responsible Fatherhood and Promoting Marriage Initiative | $0 | $50,000,000 |
| Runaways and homeless youths | $105,000,000 | $105,000,000 |
| Social Services Block Grants | $1,767,000,000 | $1,769,000,000 |
| Soup kitchens, food banks, and Emergency Food Assistance Program | $190,000,000 | $190,000,000 |
| Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | $18,866,000,000 | $18,355,000,000 |
| 1 Figures reflect amounts already approved because money is appropriated two years in advance. 2 Figures shown are for fiscal 2005 and 2006 because money is appropriated one year in advance. 3 Would be replaced by another program. 4 Would be merged into another program. |
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