A week after Gov. Maura Healey made a public plea for federal dollars to help with an emergency shelter crisis partly fueled by an influx of migrants, it is unclear just how much money she wants to flow Massachusetts’ way.

A spokesperson for the governor declined to say if there is a particular dollar figure Healey is looking for from federal agencies after declaring a state of emergency last week, as local shelters fill up with an ever-increasing number of migrants arriving from other countries.

“Our administration has been in conversation with [the U.S. Department of Homeland Security] and the [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services] since declaring the state of emergency and as the situation evolves. We don’t have further comment,” the spokesperson said in response to questions about how much funding Massachusetts is seeking.

Healey said in a letter to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that Massachusetts “can no longer” handle the shelter crisis alone.

“We need federal partnership, federal funding, and urgent federal action to meet this moment and to continue to serve some of our most vulnerable families,” she said.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security provided more than $2.8 million in federal funding to the City of Boston through a handful of shelter- and food-related programs, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement last week.

“The administration will continue to collaborate directly with city and state officials to coordinate our efforts and we continue to call on Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform,” the spokesperson said.

Healey paired her funding request with a call to expedite work authorizations for migrants, which she said was a key driver of the emergency shelter crisis.

“We should be making it easier, not harder, to work in this country,” U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss said in a one line statement to the Herald last week.

U.S. Congressman Seth Moulton said the decision to declare a state of emergency was the “right thing” and the situation Massachusetts faces is a “perfect storm of failures,” including inaction on immigration by the federal government and a lack of affordable housing in the state.

“In the short term, we need federal assistance to abate the immediate crisis so that the people who have ended up in our communities have a tenable path forward,” Moulton said in a statement to the Herald last week. “Congress has no choice but to pursue real immigration reform that includes increased border security, a path to citizenship, and fixing our broken asylum system.”

Healey’s spokesperson also did not say if Healey or Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll have offered their own private residences to serve as hosts for families in need of immediate shelter after Driscoll called on Massachusetts residents to do so.

At a press conference last week, Driscoll urged those with an extra room in their home to consider hosting a family, including newly arrived migrants. Local nonprofits have sought to recruit residents to briefly house migrant families for a few days before they are transferred to other temporary housing.

There were 5,706 families in state shelters as of Aug. 13, an increase of 156 from Aug. 7, the day the state of emergency was declared, a spokesperson for the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities said.