US Federal Awards & Spending (USAspending)

What you get

• S — Starter slice of recent award records
• M — Research pack across award types and years
• L — Full archive: FY2008–present award and transaction tables
• FCRA prohibited-use notice included in the DATASHEET
• Data dictionary, datasheet and QA report included with every package

Sample preview

First 50 rows of the real free-sample file — the identical schema you get in every package. Click a column to sort, or filter across all rows.

Free sample not yet available for this dataset — request one via the contact form.

Coverage statistics

Records

7,430,273

Unique recipients (UEI/DUNS)

1,336,463

Countries

380

Fields

63

Time coverage

n/a

Largest package

1.1 GB

Available packages

Real contents of the current builds — row counts, sizes and checksums come from the packaging manifest, not estimates.

Built from the complete official USAspending.gov Award Data Archive (DATA Act), FY2008-FY2026: every prime-award contract and assistance (grant/direct payment/loan/insurance) transaction the government publishes. Completeness is gated per archive against official Content-Length and per fiscal year against the official spending_over_time API (<=2% divergence required); see pipelines/usaspending/out/reports/quality-report.json.

FreeOpen Data — full downloads

This dataset is part of the DataForge Open Data program: the upstream license (Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream data: public domain, official USAspending.gov archives (17 U.S.C. §105); FCRA prohibited-use notice ships in the DATASHEET) permits free redistribution, so the complete packages below are free — no signup. Please cite DataForge (data.zalize.com) with a backlink when you use or share this data.

License: Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream data: public domain, official USAspending.gov archives (17 U.S.C. §105); FCRA prohibited-use notice ships in the DATASHEET · Attribution: DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from official USAspending.gov archives

Full package inventory

Every package registered in the delivery catalog for this dataset — 49 packages, 41.5 GB total, 393,948,978 rows. Sizes, row counts and SHA-256 checksums come straight from the packaging pipeline.

How to get this data

# Machine-readable package index (size / sha256 / rows / channels)
curl -s https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-federal-awards-usaspending-dataset/packages.json | jq '.packages[0]'

# Request a free sample (signed link sent to your email)
curl -X POST https://dl.zalize.com/api/sample \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"dataset":"us-federal-awards-usaspending-dataset","email":"you@company.com"}'

Pricing

AI-training use requires the AI-Training tier (1.5× base); redistribution licensing is quoted individually. Annual subscriptions get 2 months free. License details →

Update frequency & delivery

• Source: official USAspending.gov award archives — US government works in the public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).
• Every package ships with a MANIFEST (per-file row counts, bytes, sha256) for verification.

Compliance & provenance

Collected only from publicly accessible pages and endpoints — no login-required data, no CAPTCHA solving, no forged authentication. Collection is rate-limited with an identified User-Agent, and collection logs are retained. PII is removed or pseudonymized. Every record carries its source URL and collection timestamp. Sold under a tiered commercial license.

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