Federal assistance awards

The non-contract half of federal outlays, from USASpending.gov — grants, loans, direct payments, insurance, and other financial assistance. One row per prime award: who got the money, which CFDA / Assistance-Listing program funded it, the obligated amount (and, for loans, face value and subsidy cost), the awarding and funding agency, and the place of performance. Ask "every FEMA disaster grant in Missouri over $1M" or "SBA loans to a company by UEI."

Recipients are keyed by SAM.gov recipient_uei — the same entity id used by contracts.awards and health.nih_grants, so one organization's contracts, assistance, and NIH funding join on a single key. Note the assistance award id (award_id_fain) is a different identifier system from contract PIIDs and does not join to contracts.awards.award_id.

Privacy: assistance can be paid to individuals (some direct payments and loans), unlike contracts. USASpending redacts individual recipients at the source — those appear as aggregate records, not named people. We ingest only the source's already-published, already-aggregated fields and add no re-identification.

Coverage figures populate from the ingestion pipeline after the first sync.

{
  "tool": "gov.assistance",
  "params": {
    "assistance_type": "grant",
    "pop_state_code": "MO",
    "min_amount": 1000000,
    "limit": 10
  }
}

{
  "award_id_fain": "4552DRMOP00000001",
  "recipient_name": "PUBLIC SAFETY, MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF",
  "recipient_uei": "W6SDC59J9437",
  "assistance_category": "grant",
  "assistance_type_description": "PROJECT GRANT (B)",
  "cfda_number": "97.036",
  "cfda_title": "DISASTER GRANTS - PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (PRESIDENTIALLY DECLARED DISASTERS)",
  "total_obligated_amount": 8847245.44,
  "face_value_of_loan": null,
  "awarding_agency": "Department of Homeland Security",
  "pop_state_code": "MO",
  "pop_county_name": "COLE",
  "last_modified_date": "2024-06-03"
}