FEDERAL PROGRAM · FUNCTION 250
Working Capital Fund
NASA’s Working Capital Fund finances recurring agency services through a buyer–seller model: NASA offices pay for shared services and mission-support goods as they use them. The fund is an operating mechanism, not a screenshot of NASA’s budget or a direct grant program.
Week starts Monday · YTD starts January 1 · UTC. All-time history is not yet available.
Running totals apply the historical FY2025 pace. They do not measure transactions recorded today.
BEHIND THE ACCOUNT
How NASA’s shared-services fund works
NASA uses this revolving fund to provide recurring goods and services across the agency. NASA offices order services, are charged for them, and those collections support continuing operations.
- NASA identifies shared services and mission-support work that can be financed through customer charges.
- Fund entities include the NASA Shared Services Center, enterprise IT services, and agency-wide purchasing programs.
- NASA describes the model as a way to recover service costs, improve efficiency, and make the cost of support services more visible.
How to read the FY2025 amount
OMB reports $60 million in FY2025 outlays for this account. That is the amount paid out during the fiscal year; NASA’s working capital fund is financed through offsetting collections and customer charges rather than a conventional annual appropriation. The outlay figure is not the same as total customer billings or the fund’s available balance.
Recorded votes on H.R. 1968
Mission, funding and vote sources
Official account details
- Official account name
- Working Capital Fund
- Reporting source
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Bureau
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- OMB agency–bureau–account code
- 026-00-4546
- Budget function
- Space flight, research, and supporting activities
Five years of reported amounts
Fiscal years end September 30. These are actual net outlays in nominal dollars, using the account structure in OMB’s FY2027 database.
| Fiscal year | Reported amount |
|---|---|
| 2021 | -$35,000,000 |
| 2022 | $59,000,000 |
| 2023 | $38,000,000 |
| 2024 | $10,000,000 |
| 2025 | $60,000,000 |
FY2025 outlays were $50,000,000 higher than FY2024 (500.0%). Changes in account coverage, transfers and payment timing can affect the comparison.
Trace this figure to the source workbook
Use Sheet1, column “2025”, rows 4291. Sum these records and multiply by 1,000 to convert the published thousands of dollars to dollars. Each record is included once, including all grant, budget-status and spending-category splits within this function.
How these numbers work
FY2025 actual outlays from OMB’s FY2027 Public Budget Database. Published thousands of dollars are multiplied by 1,000. Records are grouped by agency, bureau and account across budget-status splits. Selected positive-outlay accounts appear once; zero-outlay accounts are omitted, and offsets and other accounts remain in the reconciliation. A running counter applies the historical pace and does not track actual transactions today.
Running amounts apply a constant historical pace: the reported amount divided by every second in FY2025 · October 1, 2024–September 30, 2025, multiplied by elapsed time in the selected range. They illustrate the flow; they do not track actual transactions today. Week starts Monday and YTD starts January 1, in UTC. Dollar increments show motion, not dollar-level measurement accuracy.
“Reported period” restores the original source amounts. This pace model freezes at 2027-01-01 unless a newer official snapshot is imported. These program snapshots have their own reporting periods and coverage, which differ from the national Treasury budget-function counter.
Official sources, versions & audit trail
FY2027 budget database · April 2026 · FY2025 actuals only · Released 2026-04-03
Retrieved 2026-09-28 · Archived source
Version: omb-fy2027-actual2025-v1. Source-file SHA-256 checksums, original observations and the model are included in the audit download. Illustrative images are AI-generated and do not identify actual recipients, facilities or contract work.
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