Top 10,000 federal award recipients ranked by total dollars received. Includes contracts, grants, loans across DOD, HHS, NSF, NIH, USDA, and all civilian agencies. Examples: Lockheed Martin $49.6B (defense), CA Dept of Healthcare Services $112.3B (Medicaid), NY State Dept of Health $75.6B, plus universities (Johns Hopkins, MIT, Stanford), hospitals, nonprofits, and corporations. Each entity has the USAspending Recipient ID, UEI (modern Unique Entity Identifier replacing DUNS), entity type (corporation / government / university / nonprofit / healthcare), total lifetime award dollars, and rank. schema.org/Organization JSON-LD with UEI + DUNS identifiers. Source: api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/recipient/ (public POST API, no auth).

Live API

This dataset is served via a live REST API at api.morvs.ai. The card you're reading exists so HuggingFace's index can route AI agents + researchers to the canonical source.

API endpoint: https://api.morvs.ai/api/v1/fed-recipients/top
Dataset landing page: https://api.morvs.ai/datasets/fed-recipients
DataCatalog (JSON-LD): https://api.morvs.ai/.well-known/dataset.json
DCAT-US (data.gov-compatible): https://api.morvs.ai/data.json

Quick start

# Recent records (JSON)
curl 'https://api.morvs.ai/api/v1/fed-recipients/top?limit=10'

# Browse on the web
open 'https://api.morvs.ai/datasets/fed-recipients'

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

This dataset is also accessible via MCP at https://api.morvs.ai/mcp — Claude, ChatGPT, and other MCP-compatible agents can call it directly.

Source

Agency: USAspending.gov (Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service)
Primary source: https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient
License: CC0 1.0 applies only to MORVS-authored metadata in this card. Underlying records authored by US federal employees as part of their official duties are US federal government works not subject to copyright under 17 U.S.C. § 105. See MORVS source terms for third-party and other material. Free or keyless access does not alter source terms.
Update cadence: Varies by source; see the live freshness report

Keywords

federal contractor, federal grant recipient, USAspending, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, UEI, DUNS, federal contract, DOD contractor

Citation

@misc{ai_analytics_fed_recipients_2026,
  title  = {{name}},
  author = {MORVS},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://api.morvs.ai/datasets/fed-recipients},
  note   = {Derived from USAspending.gov (Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service). CC0 applies only to MORVS-authored card metadata; federal works follow 17 U.S.C. 105.}
}

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Top federal award recipients (USAspending — 10k entities by award $$$)