Datasets:

zalizedata
/

us-federal-awards-usaspending-dataset

license: cc-by-nc-4.0
license_link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
pretty_name: US Federal Awards & Spending (USAspending)
tags:
  - usaspending
  - federal-contracts
  - grants
  - government-spending
  - procurement
configs:
  - config_name: S-agency_fy
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/S/agency_fy-*.parquet
  - config_name: S-contract_awards
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/S/contract_awards-*.parquet
  - config_name: S-naics_fy
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/S/naics_fy-*.parquet
  - config_name: S-recipient_profiles
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/S/recipient_profiles-*.parquet
  - config_name: M-agency_fy
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/M/agency_fy-*.parquet
  - config_name: M-assistance_awards
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/M/assistance_awards-*.parquet
  - config_name: M-cfda_fy
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/M/cfda_fy-*.parquet
  - config_name: M-contract_awards
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/M/contract_awards-*.parquet
  - config_name: M-naics_fy
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/M/naics_fy-*.parquet
  - config_name: M-recipient_fy
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/M/recipient_fy-*.parquet
  - config_name: M-recipient_profiles
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/M/recipient_profiles-*.parquet
  - config_name: M-state_fy
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/M/state_fy-*.parquet
  - config_name: L-agency_fy
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/L/agency_fy-*.parquet
  - config_name: L-cfda_fy
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/L/cfda_fy-*.parquet
  - config_name: L-naics_fy
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/L/naics_fy-*.parquet
  - config_name: L-recipient_fy
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/L/recipient_fy-*.parquet
  - config_name: L-recipient_profiles
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/L/recipient_profiles-*.parquet
  - config_name: L-state_fy
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/L/state_fy-*.parquet
language:
  - en
task_categories:
  - tabular-classification
size_categories:
  - 10M<n<100M

US Federal Awards & Spending (USAspending)

Federal contract, grant and assistance awards from official USAspending.gov archives (FY2008–present) as analysis-ready tables with recipients, agencies, amounts and award metadata.

Part of the DataForge Open Data program — full production packages, free for academic and personal use. Canonical dataset page: https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-federal-awards-usaspending-dataset

Package inventory (original bundles, served from CDN)

Package	Tier	Rows	Size	SHA-256
`usaspending-tier1-S-2026-08-05.zip`	S	—	1.45 GB	`a46321e8fae6e18f1645366d8c61aff6819727aadff4ed84dc166f4873e035a0`
`usaspending-tier1-M-2026-08-05.zip`	M	—	3.84 GB	`b7793cc3e33b5e5a2315b84b80899cc8b2bcc549a2999c1479e43481d08bd4cb`
`usaspending-tier1-L-2026-08-05.zip`	L	—	1.04 GB	`04e00c0cb20557e26b6c4d7a19a07c28ecdc4a0f4a4b848cd1b6f5facc7ae9ef`

All files are also served from the machine-readable open-data index: https://dl.zalize.com/open-data (per-package URL: https://dl.zalize.com/open-data/<package_id>).

Native parquet files (this repo)

Every table ships as snappy parquet under data/<tier>/ and renders in the Dataset Viewer above (one config per tier / table).

Original zip bundles (archive download)

The original production packages (csv + parquet + data dictionary + datasheet + license inside) are served from the DataForge open-data CDN (free, same license):

usaspending-tier1-S-2026-08-05.zip (1.45 GB, tier S)
usaspending-tier1-M-2026-08-05.zip (3.84 GB, tier M)
usaspending-tier1-L-2026-08-05.zip (1.04 GB, tier L)

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

Use cases

Government-market sizing and bid intelligence
Recipient and vendor analysis
Grant-funding landscape research
Joining awards to registries via UEI/DUNS

Source & methodology

USAspending.gov official award archives, FY2008–present

Coverage, update cadence and the full field-level data dictionary are on the dataset page: https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-federal-awards-usaspending-dataset (DATA-DICTIONARY.md and DATASHEET.md are inside each package zip).

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

Academic / personal use: CC BY-NC 4.0 on the DataForge curated layer — attribution and a backlink to https://data.zalize.com are required.
Commercial use: requires a DataForge commercial license — contact us via the portal.
Upstream license terms continue to apply to the underlying data.

Citation

DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from official USAspending.gov archives — https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-federal-awards-usaspending-dataset

DOI (Zenodo mirror): 10.5281/zenodo.21837786 · GitHub Release mirror: https://github.com/wookat/dataforge-pipelines/releases/tag/open-data-usaspending-awards

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("zalizedata/us-federal-awards-usaspending-dataset", "S-agency_fy", split="train")
print(ds[0])

Available configs: S-agency_fy, S-contract_awards, S-naics_fy, S-recipient_profiles, M-agency_fy, M-assistance_awards, M-cfda_fy, M-contract_awards, M-naics_fy, M-recipient_fy, M-recipient_profiles, M-state_fy, L-agency_fy, L-cfda_fy, L-naics_fy, L-recipient_fy, L-recipient_profiles, L-state_fy.

Related datasets

More DataForge open datasets in Government Spending & Procurement:

Full catalog (25 datasets): https://data.zalize.com/open-data · all HF repos: https://huggingface.co/zalizedata