USAspending Federal Contracts & Grants API – US Government Spending Data

Search US federal government spending data from USAspending.gov: federal contracts, contract IDVs, grants, loans and direct payments. Filter by keyword, awarding agency, NAICS, PSC, place-of-performance state, recipient, award amount and date. Each result includes award ID, recipient, obligated amount, outlays, agency/sub-agency, award type, dates, NAICS/PSC or CFDA assistance listing, and a link to the award page.

Why this Actor

• Source: the public USAspending.gov API, operated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service. No HTML scraping, no login, no API key.
• Pagination up to 10,000 awards per run (default 500), with retries. The per-run cap exists because recipient names and addresses may include Dun & Bradstreet data, which may not be redistributed in bulk (see below). For larger analyses, run narrower, filtered queries.
• Clean, flat JSON, ready for CSV/Excel, BI tools and LLM pipelines.

Use cases

GovCon and public-sector market research, grant research, journalism, investment research on government contractors, budget analytics.

Input example

{"keywords":["cybersecurity"],"awardCategory":"contracts","dateFrom":"2025-01-01","awardingAgency":"Department of Defense","naicsCodes":["541512"],"states":["VA"],"minAmount":100000,"maxResults":500}

Output example

{"awardId":"W91ZRU25FA002","awardCategory":"contracts","recipientName":"MICROTECHNOLOGIES LLC","awardAmount":30127.4,"awardingAgency":"Department of Defense","startDate":"2025-11-19","naics":{"code":"511210","description":"SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS"},"placeOfPerformanceState":"AK","awardUrl":"https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_W91ZRU25FA002_9700_W52P1J20D0060_9700"}

The Actor does not output recipient street addresses, DUNS numbers or parent-company data.

Pricing

Pay per result: charged per award returned. Set "Max results" to cap your cost.

Notes

Keyword search requires at least 3 characters; shorter keywords are ignored. Records may include names of individuals doing business as federal recipients.

Dun & Bradstreet attribution

Some recipient business names and addresses, especially in records dated before April 4, 2022, are supplied by Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. (D&B). Recipient data © Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., provided via USAspending.gov. D&B data is subject to the Limitation on Permissible Use of Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. Data (https://www.usaspending.gov/db_info), including written attribution to D&B and no bulk redistribution. Do not use this Actor's output to rebuild or substitute for D&B products, or for D&B-restricted marketing purposes.

Source & disclaimer

Data from USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service), which makes its data available for commercial and non-commercial use subject to the D&B limitation above. This independent tool is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Treasury or any federal agency or other government body. Data is reproduced as published, may be revised by agencies, may be delayed or incomplete, and is provided as-is, without warranty of any kind. Verify against usaspending.gov before relying on it.