Agency Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Report Data Published on FOIA.gov
DOJ/OIP, FOIA Post, May 7, 2026
The Office for Information Policy (OIP) is pleased to announce that all agencies subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) have finalized their Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Annual FOIA Reports and that the Justice Department has published all of the data from these reports on FOIA.gov.
Since its initial launch in 2011, FOIA.gov has served as a dashboard of all agencies' Annual FOIA Report data. Each year, federal departments and agencies are required by law to submit a report detailing various statistics regarding their agency’s FOIA activities, such as the numbers of requests processed and received, the time taken to process them, and much more. The data from these Annual FOIA Reports is then published on FOIA.gov, allowing the public to easily view it and compare FOIA data by agency and over time. Users can search for individual agency or component data, compare data from several agencies, and gather government-wide data. The results can be viewed on the page or downloaded as a .csv file.
From the data published on FOIA.gov, we can see that demand for FOIA continued in FY25, surpassing 1.7 million requests received, which is a 13% increase compared to FY24. The number of FOIA requests received has steadily increased every year since FY20. In the face of this demand, agencies processed a record high of 1.6 million requests, a 9% increase in the number processed compared to FY24. OIP is compiling its Summary of Agency Annual FOIA Reports for FY25, which will provide a further breakdown of this data. Agencies have been posting their Chief FOIA Officer Reports, which provide helpful context for the statistics reported in the Annual FOIA Reports and detail agencies’ work in key areas of FOIA administration. OIP will also provide an assessment of agency FOIA management based on key metrics from both reports.
We encourage everyone to visit FOIA.gov to view each agency's data as well as government-wide FOIA statistics.
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