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Donation of Federal Surplus Personal Property

Program Information

Popular name

(Donation Program)

Program Number

39.003

Sub-agency

N/A

Program objective

To donate Federal personal property no longer required for Federal use to eligible nonfederal entities in order to maximize the use of Federal property

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    Fiscal Year 2016 thru June: 23,516 line items of property with an original acquisition cost of $360 million were donated. 31,059 line items of property with an original acquisition cost of $462,025,134 million were donated.

  2. 2017

    through July: 27,558 line items of property with an original acquisition cost of $438,984,919 million were donated.

  3. 2018

    No Current Data Available

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

41 CFR 102-37, "Donation of Surplus Personal Property," can be found at http://www.gsa.gov/portal/ext/public/site/FMR/file/FMRTOC102-_37.html/category/21858/#wp436256. Pamphlet, "The Federal Surplus Personal Property Donation Program," is available from the General Services Administration at http://www.gsa.gov/portal/mediaId/144703/fileName/16-00098_PersPropDonat_Bro_final508.action.

  1. 40 U.S.C. 549; 42 U.S.C. 3020d.