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New Recovery Database Available on FedSpending.org
On March 13, 2012, a new database of Recovery Act data was released on Fedspending.org. Available under the "Recovery" tab, this database allows searching of over 100,000 reports from prime recipients of more than $250 billion in contracts, grants, and loans awarded under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (Recovery Act) between Feb. 17, 2009 and Dec. 31, 2011, as well as additional information on sub-recipients and vendors.
Read the press release about the launch.
New Data Released on FedSpending.org: Oct. 21, 2009
On Oct. 21, 2009, FedSpending.org was updated with new federal data, which provides site users with full spending data for federal contracts through part of the first three quarters of FY 2009 and federal assistance data for the first two quarters of FY 2008. The FedSpending.org database now contains over $21 trillion in federal spending dating back to FY 2000.
Summary of Federal Spending:
Financial Assistance and Procurement
(in billions of dollars)
FY 2000 |
FY 2001 |
FY 2002 |
FY 2003 |
FY 2004 |
FY 2005 |
FY 2006 |
FY 2007 | FY 2008*  (partial year) |
FY 2009* (partial year) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contracts | $208.8 |
$219.8 |
$259.6 |
$298.5 |
$341.9 |
$382.1 |
$419.9 |
$457.8 |
$527.5 |
$146.8 |
| Grants | $294.5 |
$330.7 |
$406.2 |
$493.3 |
$449.8 |
$441.1 |
$488.9 |
$516.8 |
$219.0 |
|
| Loans | $108.0 |
$141.8 |
$216.8 |
$210.8 |
$154.8 |
$118.8 |
$95.4 |
$102.3 |
$83.2 |
|
| Insurance | $431.3 |
$492.2 |
$556.6 |
$567.2 |
$603.9 |
$653.2 |
$771.3 |
$856.6 |
$439.8 |
|
| Direct Payments (e.g. Social Security) | $768.3 |
$839.6 |
$841.5 |
$947.9 |
$965.5 |
$1,004.1 |
$1,092.7 |
$810.5 |
$600.5 |
|
| Other | $2.8 |
$2.7 |
$0.2 |
$0.7 |
$0.4 |
$0.3 |
$3.8 |
$0.1 |
$0.1 |
|
| Total | $1,813.7 |
$2,026.9 |
$2,280.8 |
$2,518.5 |
$2,516.2 |
$2,599.6 |
$2,872.0 |
$2,744.1 |
$1,870.1 |
$146.8 |
We hope you will explore this site. But mostly we hope you will use the data to hold our elected leaders and government agencies accountable for their actions.
*Note: FY 2008 contains a full year of contracts data, but only the first two quarters of federal assistance data. FY 2009 contains only the first two quarters and a small amount of the third quarter of federal contracts data.