U.S. public data, ranked across sources
Computed over all collected raw data — not limited to curated registries, but ranking every recipient, agency, and firm. Comparison reveals scale and concentration.
An organization of public government data, not an official U.S. government site. Aggregates cover collected data, and rankings are based on name-level aggregation.
Federal money (budget, procurement, contracts)
How much the government holds (budget), awards (procurement), who wins it, and where it lands. Budget size / awarding agencies / top contractors / breadth / largest single contracts / spending by state.
Largest agencies by budget authority
Federal agencies ranked by budget authority — the legal amount each is authorized to commit to spending. This shows agency size itself, not procurement.
- 1 Department of the Treasury ≈$4.51T
- 2 Department of Health and Human Ser... ≈$3.44T
- 3 Department of Defense ≈$2.58T
Top awarding agencies by spending
Which agencies awarded the most in federal contracts, ranked by total awarded to recipient companies (collected set, multi-year cumulative). A ranking of award scale and concentration from the agency side.
- 1 Department of Defense ≈$929.95B
- 2 Department of Energy ≈$70.76B
- 3 National Aeronautics and Space Adm... ≈$69.09B
Top federal contractors by amount
Companies awarded federal contracts (including defense), ranked by total contract amount (as collected).
- 1 Lockheed Martin ≈$323.61B
- 2 Boeing ≈$192.29B
- 3 General Dynamics ≈$128.67B
Broadest contractors (number of agencies)
Companies that won contracts from the most distinct agencies, ranked by the number of agencies they do business with. A measure of the breadth of a company's government relationships — something dollar totals alone do not show.
- 1 Accenture Federal 10
- 2 Leidos 9
- 3 Palantir 7
Largest federal contracts (individual)
The largest single federal contracts by amount (recipient, awarding agency, value). Many at the top are multi-year contract vehicles or ceilings (IDVs), not one-year spending.
- 1 Humana ≈$51.27B
- 2 Lockheed Martin ≈$48.06B
- 3 NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING... ≈$42.57B
Federal spending received by state (with per-capita)
How much total federal spending (contracts, assistance — everything) landed in each state by recipient location, ranked by state total, with per-capita alongside and links to each state page.
- 1 California ≈$486.34B
- 2 Florida ≈$323.56B
- 3 Texas ≈$312.67B
Grants & research
The "giving" side — assistance and benefits. Top recipients of federal assistance (mostly state Medicaid) and research-grant winners (NSF = basic science, NIH = biomedical).
Top federal assistance recipients (all agencies)
Organizations that received the most federal assistance (grants and cooperative agreements — separate from contracts), ranked by total over the last 10 fiscal years (aggregated from USAspending). State Medicaid agencies dominate the top.
- 1 HEALTH CARE SERVICES, CALIFORNIA D... ≈$713.1B
- 2 NYS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ≈$490.79B
- 3 HEALTH & HUMAN SVC COMMN TX ≈$296.37B
Top NSF grant awardees by amount
Institutions (universities and research organizations) that won the most NSF research funding, ranked by total over the last 10 fiscal years (aggregated from USAspending).
- 1 ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES FOR RE... ≈$1.4B
- 2 UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPH... ≈$1.34B
- 3 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN ≈$1.22B
Top NIH (biomedical) grant awardees by amount
Institutions (universities, medical schools, research organizations) that won the most NIH biomedical research funding, ranked by total over the last 10 fiscal years (aggregated from USAspending) — showing where U.S. medical and life-science research concentrates.
- 1 THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ≈$6.86B
- 2 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIF... ≈$6.46B
- 3 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHI... ≈$5.63B
Regulation & risk
Agencies that issue the most rules (regulatory activity) and firms with the most FDA recalls (health-risk activity).
Agencies by rulemaking volume
Agencies ranked by the number of Federal Register documents (rules, notices, etc.) issued (as collected).
- 1 Department of Commerce 508
- 2 Securities and Exchange Commission 461
- 3 Department of Transportation 455
Firms with the most FDA recalls
Firms ranked by the number of FDA recalls (all device, drug, and food recalls — aggregated from openFDA), with a Class I (most serious) breakdown.
- 1 Zimmer Biomet, Inc. 875
- 2 MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, LP - Northfiel... 822
- 3 Customed, Inc 682
What the data shows
- By federal contract dollars collected here, the top recipient is Lockheed Martin (≈$323.61B).
- The largest awarding agency is Department of Defense (≈$929.95B).
- The most active rulemaker (by Federal Register items collected) is Department of Commerce.
- In biomedical research, the top NIH-funded institution is THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (≈$6.86B over 10 years).
- By total federal assistance, the largest recipient is HEALTH CARE SERVICES, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF (≈$713.1B over 10 years) — federal grants are dominated by Medicaid flowing to state health agencies.
- The single largest federal contract here is held by Humana (≈$51.27B ceiling) — top entries are multi-year contract vehicles, not one-year spending.
- By budget authority, the largest agency is Department of the Treasury (≈$4.51T this fiscal year) — far bigger than its procurement, since most is benefits.
- By recipient location, the state receiving the most federal spending is California (≈$486.34B); per-capita tells a different story.
- Read across the themes: government money flows "hold (budget) → buy (contracts) / give (assistance)," and each stage concentrates differently — budgets in benefit-heavy agencies, contracts in defense, assistance in state Medicaid. The same firms recur across contracts, SEC filings, and defense. Figures are aggregates from this site's collected data, not the full universe.
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