Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Most recent quarterly backlog

End of FY2026 Q2 (Jan 1 – Mar 31, 2026)

Latest annual report

End of FY2025 (Sept 30, 2025)

18-year change

+327%

FY2008 → FY2025 (Oct 1, 2007 – Sept 30, 2025)

Annual backlog, FY2008–FY2025

Pending requests at end of each fiscal year (Oct 1, 2007 – Sept 30, 2025). Federal fiscal year runs Oct 1 – Sept 30, named for the year it ends.

FY08: 15

FY10: 19

FY12: 46

FY14: 33

FY16: 17

FY18: 40

FY20: 9

FY22: 6

FY24: 18

FY25: 64

Dashed verticals mark presidential inaugurations.

A note on the figures. Annual and quarterly numbers don’t mean the same thing.

Annual report

Window: full fiscal year, Oct 1 through Sept 30.
Coverage: intended for every reporting agency; the current FY2025 bulk release contains 117 agency-overall reports.
Detail: received, processed, pending, exemption counts (b1–b9), ten oldest, personnel, costs.
“Pending” means: every request still open at year-end, regardless of age.
Freshness: six to nine months after fiscal year end. Latest published is FY2025.

Quarterly report

Window: three months. The latest quarter is shown in the sitewide freshness banner.
Coverage: larger agencies only. About 95 filed before the Trump 2 reporting cliff. DHS filed through FY2025 Q3, then stopped.
Detail: received, processed, backlogged. Three numbers only.
“Backlogged” means:perfected requests open more than 20 working days. Stricter than annual “pending.”
Freshness: usually about six weeks after quarter end.

Why we keep them on separate views.The two “pending” counts use different denominators, so plotting them on a single continuous timeline would misrepresent the underlying change. Within each series, comparisons are clean — quarter-over-quarter, year-over-year. Across series, only the direction of change is comparable, not the magnitude.

Recent quarterly activity

Last 22 quarters of received, processed, and backlog. Most recent: FY2026 Q2 (Jan 1 – Mar 31, 2026).

Backlog

Received per quarter

Processed per quarter

105

10 oldest pending requests, end of FY2025 (Sept 30, 2025)

Agencies report days pending in working days, counted from the day the request was received; the years column converts to calendar years. The longer this list runs, the more litigation-ripe the agency’s backlog.

Rank	Date received	Working days pending	Years pending
#1	2024-10-01	247	1.0
#2	2024-11-05	223	0.9
#3	2025-01-07	183	0.7
#4	2025-01-07	183	0.7
#5	2025-01-27	171	0.7
#6	2025-02-07	162	0.6
#7	2025-02-11	160	0.6
#8	2025-02-11	160	0.6
#9	2025-02-18	156	0.6
#10	2025-02-25	151	0.6

Exemption invocations, FY2025 (Oct 1, 2024 – Sept 30, 2025)

How often each FOIA exemption (b1–b9) was invoked when redacting or denying records. Exemption 5 (deliberative process, attorney-client) is highlighted — it’s the most-fought exemption in FOIA litigation.

FOIA staffing, FY2025 (Oct 1, 2024 – Sept 30, 2025)

Full-time employees

Equivalent FTE

0.0

Total FTE

3.0

Annual report history

FY	Received	Processed	Pending end
FY2025	405	361	64
FY2024	443	430	18
FY2023	290	291	5
FY2022	185	202	6
FY2021	157	144	22
FY2020	178	184	9
FY2019	138	164	15
FY2018	134	121	40
FY2017	186	176	27
FY2016	126	168	17
FY2015	228	204	59
FY2014	164	151	33
FY2013	122	148	20
FY2012	175	170	46
FY2011	168	145	42
FY2010	158	153	19
FY2009	199	200	14
FY2008	147	151	15

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