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Welcome to USASpending.gov - Where Americans Can See Where Their Money   Goes

Have you ever wanted to find more information on government spending? Have you ever wondered where federal contracting dollars and grant awards go? Or perhaps you would just like to know, as a citizen, what the government is really doing with your money. The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Transparency Act) requires a single searchable website, accessible by the public for free that includes for each Federal award: 1. The name of the entity receiving the award; 2. The amount of the award; 3. Information on the award including transaction type, funding agency, etc; 4. The location of the entity receiving the award; 5. A unique identifier of the entity receiving the award.

Welcome to www.USAspending.gov, a relaunch of www.FederalSpending.gov, that provides citizens with easy access to government contract, grant and other award data.

To begin searching, select either the Assistance or Contracts tab at the top left side of this page. You can easily switch back and forth as you search.

The table below provides a summary of the federal spending information available on USASpending.gov. For an overview of the data available on this website, please see the Data Quality tab at the top of this page.

Contracts and Other Spending in Billions of Dollars¹

	FY 2000	FY 2001	FY 2002	FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005	FY 2006	FY 2007	FY 2008	FY 2009 (partial year)
Contracts	$208.314	$219.231	$258.980	$297.828	$343.227	$385.148	$423.435	$456.979	$517.898	$20.974
Grants	$294.511	$330.738	$406.157	$493.287	$449.619	$441.028	$489.046	$383.545	$104.853	$12.415
Loans2	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	$0.410	$0.468	$0.028
Insurance	$431.320	$492.207	$556.586	$567.211	$603.890	$653.229	$771.275	$2.196	$4.406	$0.420
Direct Payments (e.g. Social Security)	$768.254	$839.649	$841.514	$947.943	$965.484	$1,004.073	$1,092.675	$10.302	$41.970	$11.734
Other	$2.816	$2.675	$0.233	$0.691	$0.412	$0.391	$3.990	$58.676	$339.170	$14.580
Total	$1,705.215	$1,884.501	$2,063.470	$2,306.960	$2,362.632	$2,483.870	$2,780.421	$912.109	$1,008.764	$60.153

¹  The numbers in this table can change after each data load. Transactions included in a data load can impact numbers for the current and previous fiscal years.

²  Dollar figures for Federal Loans in this table come from the FAADS PLUS data field: Original Subsidy Cost. Prior to FY 2007, FAADS file format did not include data fields to capture the Original Subsidy Cost and Face Value of a loan. Therefore, USAspending.gov will only display loans transactions for FY 2007 and onwards.

The data housed on USASpending.gov is provided by Federal agencies. Please refer to the Data Quality site for information about the current status of data quality. USASpending.gov is continuously developing ways to measure and improve the quality of the data on the site.

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