| --- |
| 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](https://data.zalize.com/open-data) — full production |
| packages, free for academic and personal use. Canonical dataset page: |
| **[https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-federal-awards-usaspending-dataset](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`](https://dl.zalize.com/open-data/usaspending-tier1-S-2026-08-05) (1.45 GB, tier S) |
| - [`usaspending-tier1-M-2026-08-05.zip`](https://dl.zalize.com/open-data/usaspending-tier1-M-2026-08-05) (3.84 GB, tier M) |
| - [`usaspending-tier1-L-2026-08-05.zip`](https://dl.zalize.com/open-data/usaspending-tier1-L-2026-08-05) (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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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](https://data.zalize.com/datasets) |
| — contact us via the portal. |
| - Upstream license terms continue to apply to the underlying data. |
|
|
| ## Citation |
|
|
| ```text |
| 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 |
|
|
| ```python |
| 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**: |
|
|
| - [Government Tenders & Contract Awards (US Federal + Global Portals)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/zalizedata/government-tenders-contract-awards-dataset) |
| - [Global Public Procurement Notices & Awards (TED + OCDS)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/zalizedata/global-public-procurement-ted-ocds-dataset) |
| - [US Research Grants (NIH + NSF)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/zalizedata/us-research-grants-nih-nsf-dataset) |
| - [Global Development Aid Activities & Transactions (IATI)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/zalizedata/global-aid-activities-iati-dataset) |
|
|
| Full catalog (25 datasets): <https://data.zalize.com/open-data> · all HF repos: <https://huggingface.co/zalizedata> |
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