About Fed Spend Map

Fed Spend Map is an independent public-data reference site. It takes the award records that federal agencies report to USAspending.gov, the U.S. Treasury's spending database, and arranges them by the questions people actually ask: how much federal money does this organisation receive, from which agencies, for what, and how does federal spending in this county or congressional district compare with the state and the country.

The site currently holds 30,000 recipient organisations, 3,144 counties, 436 congressional districts, 51 states and the District of Columbia, 66 awarding agencies, 145 sub-agencies, 547 NAICS industries, 1,056 assistance programs and 1,224 monthly award lists.

What it is for

Contractors and grant seekers use it to see which agencies buy in their industry and which organisations they compete with. Reporters and economic-development staff use the county, district and state pages to put a local figure in context. Civic researchers use the agency and program pages for the fiscal-year trend and the award-type mix. USAspending itself holds far more detail; this site adds the comparisons, per-resident rates, rankings and trends that the raw records do not offer, and links back to the USAspending record for every award and recipient.

What it leaves out

• People. Federal awards to individuals (farm payments, disaster assistance, benefits) are in USAspending, mostly as aggregated records. This site publishes organisations only: recipients that USAspending flags as individuals or sole proprietorships, and names that read as a person, are removed before anything is stored. Executive compensation fields are never shown.
• Opinion. The site does not judge whether an award was deserved, competitive enough or well spent, and uses USAspending's own terms: obligations, not "spending"; "not competed", not anything stronger.
• Small recipients. Organisations with under $1.0M in a fiscal year are not listed individually; their totals remain in every county, state and agency figure.

Funding

The site is free and funded by advertising that is clearly labelled. Advertisers have no influence over which organisations appear or how their records are presented. Sponsor placements, when present, are marked "Sponsored".

Updates and corrections

Current-year figures are refreshed on each build from the USAspending API; closed fiscal years are snapshots taken after year end. If a figure differs from USAspending, the USAspending record is authoritative; see corrections and the methodology for how the two can differ. Contact details are on the contact page.