Federal Awards & Spending Lookup (USAspending.gov)
Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 results
Federal Awards & Spending Lookup (USAspending.gov)
Search U.S. Treasury USAspending.gov for federal contracts, grants, loans, direct payments, and IDVs by recipient name. Returns normalized award records with amounts, agency, dates, UEI, and source links. No API key. B2G sales intelligence and vendor due-diligence.
Search the U.S. Treasury's official USAspending.gov database for federal contracts, grants, loans, direct payments, and IDVs awarded to any company or organization. No API key required — uses the public USAspending REST API.
Use case
B2G (business-to-government) sales intelligence and vendor due diligence: "Has this company received federal money, how much, from which agencies, and for what?"
Input
| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
recipientName | string | required | Company or org name to search (partial/fuzzy OK) |
awardTypes | array | all | contracts, grants, loans, direct_payments, idvs, other_financial_assistance |
sinceFiscalYear | integer | last 5 FYs | Earliest FY to include (FY starts Oct 1; min 2008) |
maxResults | integer | 50 | Max total award records across all types |
Output record shape
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
recipientName | Recipient name as reported by USAspending |
awardId | Award ID (contract number, grant number, etc.) |
awardType | Contract / Grant / Loan / Direct Payment / IDV / Other |
awardingAgency | Top-level awarding agency |
awardingSubAgency | Awarding sub-agency or office |
amount | Obligated amount in USD |
description | Award description (may be lengthy for contracts) |
startDate | Award start date (YYYY-MM-DD) |
endDate | Award end or expiry date |
placeOfPerformanceState | 2-letter state code for place of performance |
recipientUei | Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) if available |
sourceUrl | Direct link to the award page on usaspending.gov |
retrievedAt | ISO timestamp of data retrieval |
Billing
Priced per returned award record (apify-default-dataset-item). A query that returns 0 results costs nothing beyond the minimal run overhead.
Caveats
- Award-type grouping: USAspending requires all codes in one request to be from the same award group (contracts, grants, loans, etc.). This actor queries each group separately and merges results.
- Recipient name fuzziness: USAspending's
recipient_search_textmatches broadly. This actor applies a word-overlap filter to reduce false positives but may include subsidiaries or name variants of the queried company. - Amount = obligated: The
amountfield reflects the obligated amount, not the total contract ceiling or base-and-all-options value. - Coverage: Reliable data from FY 2008 onward (USAspending's stated earliest reliable coverage).
Data source
U.S. Department of the Treasury — USAspending.gov public API: https://api.usaspending.gov
Public domain data, no authentication required.
