zalizedata/us-federal-awards-usaspending-dataset

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](https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-federal-awards-usaspending-dataset)

Package inventory (original bundles, served from CDN)

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:

• —Government Tenders & Contract Awards (US Federal + Global Portals)
• —Global Public Procurement Notices & Awards (TED + OCDS)
• —US Research Grants (NIH + NSF)
• —Global Development Aid Activities & Transactions (IATI)

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