USAID money map

Where USAID’s money went, FY2017–26: $213.9B to about 7,300 recipients, from the contractors, charities and UN agencies it paid to the 160 countries where the work was recorded and the subrecipients they paid in turn. Every dot links to the federal record.

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How to read it

Year. Pick a fiscal year, or press play, to see where USAID money went that year. Recipients with no money that year drop out. “All years” shows FY2017–26 combined.

Height is the chain of money. USAID floats at the top over Washington. The organizations it paid float in the middle over their headquarters. The countries where the money was spent, and the subrecipients the money was passed to, sit on the map.

Color is sector: global health · humanitarian and food aid · democracy, governance and stabilization · economic growth, education and environment · program support · mixed or unspecified. Sector is read from each award’s own description.

The mark shows type. Solid dots are nonprofits and universities, dots with an outer ring are governments, UN agencies and multilateral funds, and hollow rings are for-profit contractors. Small diamonds are people with a documented political tie, red for Republicans and blue for Democrats; click one for the source.

Size is your choice: dollars, how many countries an organization’s USAID money was spent in, or how much it passed on to subrecipients.

Lines are as wide as the money they carry (wider means more dollars; when a year is picked, that year’s money). They arc from payer to payee: USAID to each recipient, each recipient to the countries where its awards were carried out, and prime recipients to their largest subrecipients. Click anything for its awards and links to the records.

USAID awards from USAspending.gov (pulled November 10, 2026, fiscal years 2017–26, net obligations). Subawards are those prime recipients reported to the federal subaward system, which is incomplete. Countries are where awards were recorded as performed; much contract work is recorded at the contractor’s US headquarters. A record of who was paid, not a judgment of the work.

Sources, coding and method

What is on the map

Every USAID award with money moving in FY2017–26: 42,068 prime awards (24,766 contracts, 12,567 grants and cooperative agreements, 2,006 contract vehicles, 2,729 other agreements and payments), $213.9B in net obligations to about 7,300 recipients. The 251 recipients that received $50M or more form the main network; 1,801 more that received $1M–$50M are a layer you can switch on. The roughly 5,200 recipients under $1M ($704M combined) are counted in USAID’s totals but not drawn.
Countries: 160 places where USAID awards were recorded as carried out, sized by the money recorded there. Each recipient over $1M is linked to the countries where its USAID money was recorded.
Subawards: 46,742 subaward records, $28.7B after the corrections below, that prime recipients reported passing to other organizations. Every subrecipient that received $5M or more is drawn (391 new dots; the rest were already on the map as prime recipients).
Political connections (a layer of diamonds, colored by party): 35 people with a documented tie between politics and a USAID-funded organization, linked by 43 sourced lines. They include sitting and former politicians who lead or sit on the boards of recipients (the IRI and NDI boards, Freedom House, CARE, the Carter Center, the Tony Blair Institute, the Clinton Health Access Initiative); the heads of the large UN agencies and funds, when they came from political office (WFP, UNICEF, IOM, WHO, FAO, UNAIDS, Gavi); the World Bank presidents and the presidents who nominated them; and USAID’s own politically appointed administrators. Each line links to the organization’s own announcement or a news report.
Corporate PAC money (off by default, under the line filters): 23 companies on the map run federal PACs. Their 2023–26 checks to candidates come from the FEC’s bulk files; the 60 candidates who got the most are drawn, and 5 politicians already in this layer show their PAC totals too. These PACs give for the whole company, so this shows who the firms back, not money that came out of USAID awards. Nonprofits, the bulk of USAID’s recipients, cannot run PACs.
Tax filings (IRS Form 990): 285 nonprofits on the map are matched to their filings through the IRS 990 Parsed dataset (CC0, built from the IRS e-file releases; Hugging Face, piercewetter3/irs-990-parsed). Each panel shows the latest year’s revenue and government-grant share, the three best-paid officers it lists, the US groups it gave grants to (Schedule I), and, for 66 of them, federal political giving by people who named it as their employer (FEC itemized contributions, reports filed 2024–26, matched on the exact employer name; ActBlue and WinRed pass-through records are left out so gifts aren’t counted twice). 531 grant links between organizations on the map are drawn as “Nonprofit grants (990)” lines (off by default). Government contracts paid as fees are reported as program revenue, so the government share understates contractors such as RTI. Public universities and church bodies such as Catholic Relief Services don’t file 990s, and names that matched the wrong charity were removed by hand. Each figure links to the filing on ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer.
Not covered: lobbyists’ former government jobs (the Senate lobbying database could not be reached for this version).

How the money is counted

Measure	What it means
Money	Net obligations (money committed, minus money pulled back) by fiscal year, from USAspending’s totals for USAID as the awarding agency.
Where it was spent	The award’s recorded place of performance. Global procurement and headquarters work are often recorded at a US address, so $30.6B shows as “United States” even when goods were shipped abroad. UN agencies and global funds are often recorded where they are headquartered: $23.4B shows in Switzerland, mostly the Global Fund, Gavi and WHO in Geneva. A recipient’s yearly split across countries is estimated from its own yearly totals.
Location of a recipient	The city in its federal record. UN agencies recorded at liaison offices are placed at their headquarters (noted on each). When the record gives no city, the city is read from the address lines; failing that, the recipient is placed at its country’s capital and says so (868 recipients).
Sector (color)	Read from each award’s description and, for contracts, its federal product or service code (IT, administrative and logistics codes count as program support). A recipient takes the sector holding at least 45% of its classifiable dollars, otherwise “mixed or unspecified.” Recipients with withheld names are left unspecified. This is an Asturias classification, not USAID’s own coding.
Type (mark)	From the recipient’s name, with about 35 large organizations checked by hand: for-profit firms, nonprofits, universities, UN and multilateral bodies, and foreign governments.

Audit (November 10, 2026)

Totals re-checked live against USAspending: USAID’s FY2017–26 total, the top recipients (World Bank, World Food Programme, Chemonics, Gavi, FHI 360, DAI, Catholic Relief Services) and the top countries all match to the dollar.
Coverage: the award count matches USAspending’s count for every award type. Excluded: 10 loan guarantees, and about $0.44B of USAID-funded awards that other agencies signed (GSA, State, Energy).
Subaward errors removed. 754 subaward reports ($4.5B) were each larger than the entire prime award they were filed under, which is impossible; they are excluded. Examples: an $851M “subaward” to a Salvadoran phone company under a $52M Palladium contract, and $729M to a Colombian university under a $58M MSI task order. For 192 more prime awards whose remaining subawards still added up to more than the award, those subawards are scaled down to the award’s total ($3.9B trimmed).
Exact repeats: USAspending lists about 3,300 subaward rows that are identical copies of other rows; each is counted once.
Fixed in this pass: duplicate spellings merged (UNDP), about 20 nonprofits and firms re-typed by hand, names cleaned, foreign recipients placed in their cities instead of a country’s center, and support contracts no longer mistaken for programs (an IT “disaster recovery” contract had been read as disaster aid).

Things the record hides

Withheld names. $16.4B went to foreign recipients whose names are withheld (listed as “miscellaneous foreign awardees” or similar) and $5.4B to “domestic awardees (undisclosed),” often for security in places like Ukraine, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Ukraine budget support. The World Bank’s $32.6B is mostly direct budget support to Ukraine’s government. GAO reports USAID managed about $30.2B of it, provided mostly through the World Bank’s PEACE project and fully disbursed by December 2024.
Money from other agencies. In several years USAID’s awards exceed its own budget obligations (113% in FY2017, 126% in FY2020), because USAID also awards money transferred from other agencies, such as global health funds appropriated to the State Department.
Lifetime award values. “Largest award” lines show each award’s total value, which can include years before 2017.

After 2025

USAID’s award obligations fell from $30.3B in FY2024 to $12.6B in FY2025 and $1.5B in FY2026, as awards were terminated and its remaining programs moved to the State Department. Money State obligated after the transfer is not counted here, since this map follows USAID as the awarding agency.