gov tool

Public

gov_get_recipient_awards

Fetch one recipient's bounded fiscal-year USAspending obligations.

Description

Fetch one recipient's bounded fiscal-year USAspending obligations.

Returns newest-first fiscal-year totals, six USAspending award-type obligation splits, and the top 10 awarding agencies. Amounts are exact USD transaction-level obligations, the same basis used by USAspending recipient profile pages; meta.source is usaspending and as_of is the freshest row on the page. The default is 5 fiscal years and the maximum is 20. Follow pagination.next_cursor until has_more is false.

Results are for the recipient as registered with USAspending (child/recipient level); figures are NOT parent-company rollups; parent linkage fields indicate where a parent exists.

Unknown or ambiguous recipients are unknown_entity with possible suggestions; an invalid cursor is bad_parameter. A known recipient with no award rows returns an empty successful page.

Example: gov_get_recipient_awards(recipient="UEI123456789", fiscal_years=5).

Parameters

Input schema

NameTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
recipientstringYesExact USAspending recipient_id, 12-character UEI, or case-insensitive unique canonical name; use gov_search_recipients to resolve ambiguity.
fiscal_yearsintegerNo5Federal fiscal-year rows to return newest first (1–20).
cursorstring | nullNonullOpaque pagination.next_cursor from the previous response; keep recipient constant while paging. Omit for the newest fiscal year.

Provenance

Sources

  • usaspendingU.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov

Dataset registry: gov_recipient_awards