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Thirty-four tables you can download now, and eight federal releases preserved here with checksums: the SBA's loan-level PPP file, USASpending's COVID EIDL awards, the SBA's Restaurant Revitalization Fund and Shuttered Venue grant files, and six and a half years of Department of Justice press releases. Every table says what a row is, how it was built, what to check before quoting it, and which bytes it came from.

34Derived tables, CSV
8Federal source releases
63Preserved source files · 8.7 GB
11.5MPPP loans in the source file
3.68MCOVID EIDL awards
135,405DOJ press releases, 2020–26

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Which table answers which question. Every table page has a preview, measured stats, a data dictionary, and the gotchas to know before you count anything.

Which lenders made the most PPP loans, and how big were they?

PPP per-lender totals (4,680 rows) · Top 500 PPP lenders by loan count (500 rows) · Top 500 PPP lenders by approved dollars (500 rows)

How much did lenders earn in processing fees, and what did the 2021 schedule change?

PPP processing-fee schedules by vintage (4 rows)

Who has been charged, convicted, or sentenced for pandemic-relief fraud?

DOJ pandemic-fraud press-release index (3,093 rows) · Pandemic-fraud sentencing outcomes (1,131 rows)

How much PPP and EIDL fraud used someone else's identity rather than the applicant's own lies?

PPP/EIDL identity-theft classification (1,977 rows)

Which restaurants and venues took money from more than one relief program?

Cross-program recipient matches (91,448 rows)

How much did Treasury pay governments and airlines, and to whom?

Coronavirus Relief Fund: every prime recipient and what it reported spending (865 rows) · Payroll Support Program: every recipient in Treasury's three files (1,584 rows)

I want the federal files themselves.

SBA PPP FOIA loan-level files (13 files) · USASpending COVID EIDL prime-award files (38 files) · SBA Restaurant Revitalization Fund award file (1 file) · SBA Shuttered Venue Operators Grant award file (1 file) · DOJ press-release corpus, 2020–2026 (1 file)

How this data is built

Provenance, CSV hygiene & release checksums

Federal releases
8 federal source releases (63 source files · 8.7 GB, each with a SHA-256 checksum).
PPP & EIDL
11.5 million PPP loans in 13 FOIA files (2024-09-30) and 3.68 million COVID EIDL awards in 38 files.
DOJ corpus
131,293 releases harvested July 4, 2026 (135,405 DOJ press releases, 2020–26, in the corpus).
CSV format
UTF-8 CSV with column schema; internal paths stripped and formula-initial cells quoted.

Everything on this page traces back to eight government releases. The Small Business Administration publishes every Paycheck Protection Program loan under the Freedom of Information Act; the copy used here is the 2024-09-30 vintage, 11.5 million loans in thirteen files. USASpending.gov publishes each COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan as a prime award; 3.68 million of them, April 2020 through December 2022, were exported in 38 date-window files. The SBA also publishes its Restaurant Revitalization Fund award file and a Shuttered Venue Operators Grant award list. And the Department of Justice exposes its press releases through a public API, harvested on July 4, 2026 back to a January 1, 2020 cutoff: 131,293 releases, carrying DOJ dates from October 25, 2019 through July 3, 2026.

Each source file was downloaded, hashed with SHA-256, and frozen as part of a numbered release (v1, 2026-07-10). The eight derived tables in that release were built from those frozen copies by scripts, then published as UTF-8 CSV with a column schema and their own checksum. Internal file paths were stripped from the tables before publication, and cells that begin with a formula character are quoted so a spreadsheet will not execute them. The source vintage is stated on every table because the numbers depend on it.

The tables fall into four groups. Three describe PPP lenders: who originated how many loans and dollars, with the fintech aggregators Womply and Blueacorn consolidated into their own rows. One models PPP processing fees under the 2020 and 2021 schedules. Three are built from the DOJ corpus and cover enforcement: a parsed index of every pandemic-fraud press release, a sentencing database, and a classification of PPP and EIDL cases by whether someone else's identity was used. The last matches businesses across programs.

Derived tables — free to download

PPP lenders

The SBA loan file names an originating lender on all but 28 of its 11,468,210 loans (measured on the 2024-09-30 release, 2026-09-13). These tables add it up by lender after moving the volume that Womply and Blueacorn routed through partner banks into rows of their own, because the raw file books each of those loans to the partner bank. The network rows therefore hold the whole PPP book of each partner bank, an upper bound on what the platforms sourced rather than a measured platform-origination count.

PPP per-lender totals

Loan count, approved dollars, average loan, reported jobs, and share of the program for each of 4,680 PPP originating lenders, with the Womply and Blueacorn aggregator networks consolidated into rows of their own. The 4,680 rows sum to 11,468,171 loans and $792.6 billion, which is the whole SBA file.

4,680 rows · 8 columns · 358 KB CSV · source vintage SBA PPP FOIA 2024-09-30 · compiled 2026-07-10

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Top 500 PPP lenders by approved dollars

The 500 lenders with the most PPP dollars approved, ranked, with the same category, borrower, and jobs fields as the by-count table. JPMorgan Chase leads at $44.1 billion; 422 of the 500 are community banks.

500 rows · 12 columns · 54 KB CSV · source vintage SBA PPP FOIA 2024-09-30 · compiled 2026-07-10

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Top 500 PPP lenders by loan count

The 500 lenders with the most PPP loans, ranked, with a lender category, dollars, average loan, reported jobs, distinct borrowers, and loans per borrower. Womply's and Blueacorn's networks rank first and second; 404 of the 500 are community banks.

500 rows · 12 columns · 53 KB CSV · source vintage SBA PPP FOIA 2024-09-30 · compiled 2026-07-10

Rights: Derived from U.S. government public data; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested for the compiled table.

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PPPLF advances by lender, 70 disclosures combined

Harvest Small Business Finance had $11.52 billion of Federal Reserve money outstanding on June 30, 2021, the largest PPPLF balance any lender reached. The Loan Source borrowed the most over the facility's life, $36.18 billion across 1,063 advances, and its balance never passed $9.16 billion. One row per borrowing institution, combined from 70 Fed disclosures: 787 lenders, 26,557 advances, $198.61 billion advanced, and a facility-wide peak of $90.63 billion on June 30, 2021.

787 rows · 8 columns · 63 KB CSV · source vintage Fed PPPLF transaction-specific disclosures, releases of July 10, 2020 to March 11, 2026 (70 workbooks; report dates June 30, 2020 to February 28, 2026) · compiled 2026-10-15

Rights: Derived from U.S. government public data; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested.

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Peak PPPLF funding against bank equity, 30 largest borrowers

The 30 largest PPPLF borrowers, peak balance over call-report equity: First Bank of the Lake 33.70 times equity, Cross River 22.71, Citibank 0.02.

30 rows · 9 columns · 3 KB CSV · source vintage Fed PPPLF transaction-specific disclosures, 70 workbooks (releases of July 10, 2020 to March 11, 2026); FFIEC CDR call-report bulk files (Call Reports Single Period, tab delimited) for the quarter-ends June 30, 2020 to June 30, 2021 · compiled 2026-10-15

Rights: Derived from U.S. government public data; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested.

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The Loan Source: 192 loans originated, 115,824 serviced

The Loan Source originated 192 PPP loans and services 115,824 ($11.24 billion): one row per originating lender of the serviced book, from SBA's loan-level file.

53 rows · 13 columns · 6 KB CSV · source vintage SBA PPP loan-level file, release of September 30, 2024 (13 CSV files, 11,468,210 rows); Fed PPPLF transaction-specific disclosures for the two facility figures · compiled 2026-10-15

Rights: Derived from U.S. government public data; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested.

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PPP processing fees

SBA paid lenders a processing fee on every PPP loan, on a schedule that changed between 2020 and 2021. This table applies both schedules to every disbursed loan so the two can be compared.

PPP processing-fee schedules by vintage

Program-wide PPP lender processing fees by loan vintage and draw, with the 2020 CARES Act schedule and the 2021 Economic Aid Act schedule each applied to every disbursed loan. Four rows; the actual-schedule column sums to $38.24 billion. Under the 2021 schedule, the 2020 first-draw loans would have earned lenders $23.3 billion instead of $18.2 billion.

4 rows · 7 columns · 430 B CSV · source vintage SBA PPP FOIA 2024-09-30 · compiled 2026-07-10

Rights: Derived from U.S. government public data and published fee rules; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested.

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PPP processing fees by originating lender, modeled loan by loan

Applied loan by loan to SBA's September 30, 2024 PPP file, SBA's fee schedule comes to $38.24 billion across 4,688 originating lenders. JPMorgan Chase leads at $1.79 billion on $44.11 billion of loans, a 4.06% take. Prestamos CDFI, LLC is third at $1.06 billion on $6.85 billion, 15.4% of what it lent, because the schedule paid most on the smallest loans.

4,689 rows · 18 columns · 930 KB CSV · source vintage SBA PPP FOIA loan-level release of September 30, 2024 (13 CSV files); fee schedules of the CARES Act round and the 2021 Economic Aid Act rules · compiled 2026-10-17

Rights: Derived from SBA's public PPP loan data; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested.

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PPP lender processing fees by lender, loan size and draw, modeled

One row for each of the 4,689 lenders that originated a disbursed PPP loan, with the SBA processing fee each loan would earn under its fee schedule, summed by loan-size band and by draw. Fees sum to $38.24 billion, the same total as the program-wide fee-schedule table. These are modeled amounts computed from loan sizes, not a ledger of fees the SBA paid.

4,689 rows · 15 columns · 583 KB CSV · source vintage SBA PPP FOIA 2024-09-30 · compiled 2026-10-15

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PPP fees against Federal Reserve funding, fifteen lenders

Benworth Capital earned $697.41 million in modeled SBA processing fees on the PPP loans it originated. Its Federal Reserve PPPLF balance peaked at $4.20 billion: 16.6 cents of fee per dollar of peak Fed funding, second among the fifteen lenders here to Lendistry, whose $483.43 million peak was smaller than its $521.08 million of fees. Harvest Small Business Finance earned $1.00 billion against an $11.52 billion peak, 8.7 cents. The Loan Source earned $866,573 against a $9.16 billion peak; its own originations were 192 loans and $22.4 million.

15 rows · 13 columns · 2 KB CSV · source vintage SBA PPP loan-level file, release of September 30, 2024 (modeled fees); Fed PPPLF transaction-specific disclosures, 70 workbooks (releases of July 10, 2020 to March 11, 2026); FFIEC call reports, June 30, 2020 to June 30, 2021 (bank or nonbank) · compiled 2026-10-15

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The 2021 fee floor, lender by lender

4,689 PPP lenders: modeled SBA fees on 2020 loans under the 2021 schedule ($5.15 billion more) and on 2021 loans under the 2020 schedule ($8.74 billion less).

4,689 rows · 15 columns · 620 KB CSV · source vintage SBA PPP FOIA loan-level file, release of September 30, 2024 (13 files, 11,468,210 rows, 11,468,206 disbursed loans) · compiled 2026-10-15

Rights: Derived from U.S. government public data and published fee rules; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested.

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PPP lender processing fees by lender type, modeled

Modeled SBA processing fees for 4,689 PPP lenders in six lender types: loans, dollars, fees, fee per loan and loan-size bands; fees sum to $38.24 billion.

6 rows · 23 columns · 2 KB CSV · source vintage SBA PPP FOIA 2024-09-30, grouped from the per-lender modeled fee table · compiled 2026-10-16

Rights: Derived from U.S. government public data and published fee rules; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested.

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Enforcement

Three tables built from Department of Justice press releases: a parsed index of every pandemic-fraud announcement, a sentencing database checked against court records and other public sources, and a classification of PPP and EIDL prosecutions by whether a third party's identity was used.

DOJ pandemic-fraud press-release index

3,093 Department of Justice press releases on pandemic-relief fraud, March 2020 through October 2026, with the district, defendants, charges, programs, lenders, dollar amount, sentence, and case stage parsed out of each one. A finding aid for the DOJ record: 925 sentencings, 521 guilty pleas, 458 charging announcements, and the rest.

3,093 rows · 18 columns · 3.0 MB CSV · source vintage DOJ corpus harvested 2026-07-04 · DOJ API re-sweep through 2026-09-15 · compiled 2026-07-10

Rights: Compiled from U.S. government public records; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested for parsed fields.

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Pandemic-fraud sentencing outcomes

1,131 pandemic-fraud sentencing records, late 2020 through mid-2026, coded from DOJ releases, inspector-general reports, state attorney-general announcements, and court records: program, charges, conviction path, sentence length, probation, restitution, forfeiture, and loss amount, each with a source excerpt and a quality tier. 925 rows carry a fact-checked tier; 1,101 are marked fit for analysis.

1,130 rows · 97 columns · 3.1 MB CSV · source vintage Project database promoted 2026-07-10 · compiled 2026-07-10

Rights: Compiled from public records; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested for the classification work.

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PPP/EIDL identity-theft classification

1,977 PPP and EIDL prosecutions from the DOJ index, each classified as identity theft (246 cases, where another person's identity or information was used) or self-inflation (1,731 cases, where the defendant applied in their own name and misstated payroll, revenue, or documents), with the basis, a confidence grade, and a supporting excerpt. One in eight prosecutions involved someone else's identity; seven in eight were the applicant lying about their own business.

1,977 rows · 22 columns · 1.0 MB CSV · source vintage Project classification through 2026-07-10 · compiled 2026-07-10

Rights: Compiled from public records; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested for the classification work.

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PPP and EIDL identity-theft prosecutions by program

Of the 1,134 prosecutions that name PPP alone, 107 involved identity theft, 9.4%. Cases naming only EIDL ran at 19.8%, and the 104 cases whose program list also names unemployment insurance at 40.4%. Seven rows, counted from the 1,977-case identity-theft classification.

7 rows · 6 columns · 361 B CSV · source vintage Project classification of the DOJ press-release case index, through 2026-07-10 · compiled 2026-10-15

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Sixty self-inflation prosecutions, re-read from the full release

The rule-based pass had classified 60 Justice Department releases as no identity theft; a reading of each full release found documented self-inflation in 37 of them, or 61.7%. In those 37 the defendant claimed payroll, employees or revenue for a business whose own records said otherwise. Sixteen releases, 26.7%, document no such claim, and seven, 11.7%, document part of one. Four of the 60, 6.7%, involved another person's identity after all; in a South Carolina release of June 28, 2022, Hammond used the identity of a deceased individual. The classification table carries those four as yes.

60 rows · 18 columns · 38 KB CSV · source vintage DOJ press-release index, releases of July 16, 2020 to April 23, 2026; classification table of 1,977 prosecutions as served on this site · compiled 2026-10-15

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Treasury relief programs

Two programs Treasury paid out directly: the Coronavirus Relief Fund to state, local, territorial and tribal governments, and payroll support to airlines and aviation contractors.

Coronavirus Relief Fund: every prime recipient and what it reported spending

865 Coronavirus Relief Fund prime recipients, $149.96 billion in awards and $140.29 billion reported spent, from PRAC's final file, checked against Treasury's allocation tables.

865 rows · 260 KB CSV · source vintage PRAC final CRF file dated July 7, 2025, data as of September 30, 2023; Treasury allocation tables · compiled 2026-09-30

Rights: Compiled from U.S. government public data; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested for the compiled table.

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Payroll Support Program: every recipient in Treasury's three files

1,575 Payroll Support Program payments across PSP1, PSP2 and PSP3, $58.91 billion in all, in one table with every row traced to its line in Treasury's files.

1,584 rows · 273 KB CSV · source vintage Treasury PSP files dated 2023-08-17 (PSP1) and 2022-07-27 (PSP2, PSP3) · compiled 2026-09-30

Rights: Compiled from U.S. government public data; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested for the compiled table.

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Across programs

Businesses that show up in two or more of PPP, RRF, SVOG, and COVID EIDL, matched on normalized name and state, with a match-strength grade on every row.

Cross-program recipient matches

91,448 businesses that received money from two or more of PPP, the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant, and COVID EIDL, matched by normalized name and state, with per-program amounts, the combination of programs, and a match-strength grade on every row. 77,155 rows are HIGH-confidence matches; the universe is anchored on the two grant programs, so PPP-plus-EIDL-only businesses are not in it.

91,448 rows · 29 columns · 17.4 MB CSV · source vintage Project overlap build through 2026-07-10 · compiled 2026-07-10

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Rankings from the data

Two index pages built from the tables above, one page for each row. They carry no figure that is not in the source files.

PPP lenders: the 500 largest books

One page for each of the 500 PPP lenders with the largest approved-dollar books: loans, approved dollars, average loan, reported jobs, rank by approved dollars and rank by loan count, and the archive pages that carry the lender’s name. No page states a per-lender fee, because the fee-schedule table is program-level and has no lender column.

500 pages · built from ppp-top500-lenders-by-dollars.csv, ppp-top500-lenders-by-count.csv and ppp-lender-totals.csv · source vintage SBA PPP FOIA 2024-09-30

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Prosecutions by district

One page for each of the 89 federal districts with at least one row in the pandemic-relief sentences table, printing the rows as that table prints them. 1,034 of the table’s 1,131 rows are placed on a district page; the other 97 carry a district cell that names only a state with more than one federal district, or is not a court.

89 pages · 1,034 of 1,131 rows placed · built from pandemic-fraud-sentences.csv

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SBA borrower suspensions, 2026

Two tables built after the SBA's September 14, 2026 announcement of borrower suspensions in 45 states, six territories and the District of Columbia. Neither is part of release pandemic-darlings-data-v1-2026-07-10; each carries its own checksum.

SBA borrower suspension figures, 2026

Borrower suspensions the SBA announced in 2026, in the words of the documents that announced them: 57 rows in the main table, including the 52 state and territory rows of the SBA's September 14, 2026 release, and 24 rows recording how later SBA, White House and Justice Department documents restated the figures.

81 rows · 12 columns · 22 KB CSV · source vintage SBA, White House and DOJ documents dated 2026-01-02 to 2026-09-14 · compiled 2026-09-15

Rights: Compiled from U.S. government public records; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested for the compiled table.

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SBA borrower suspensions and pandemic loans, by state

The SBA's 2026 counts of suspended borrowers for each state and territory code, next to the number and value of PPP and COVID EIDL loans in the federal loan files for the same code: 59 rows. The ratios divide borrowers by loans, two different units.

59 rows · 22 columns · 17 KB CSV · source vintage SBA News release 26-91; SBA PPP FOIA 2024-09-30; USASpending COVID EIDL 2026-06-22 · compiled 2026-09-15

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Federal suspension and debarment, FY2023

One table from the Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee's latest report to Congress: what each federal agency reported doing under the governmentwide suspension and debarment rules in fiscal year 2023, including the SBA's 59 suspensions. It is earlier than, and separate from, the SBA's 2026 borrower suspensions above.

Federal suspension and debarment actions by agency, FY2023

What each federal agency reported doing under the governmentwide suspension and debarment rules in fiscal year 2023: suspensions, proposed debarments, debarments and five other action types, 31 rows as printed in Appendices 2 and 3 of the Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee's report to Congress.

31 rows · 11 columns · 2 KB CSV · source vintage ISDC Section 873 report to Congress, transmitted December 31, 2024 · compiled 2026-09-15

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Derived table

U.S. Attorney's office releases on the 2026 COVID-loan enforcement surge

The district companion releases to the Justice Department's announcement of September 14, 2026: 31 releases from 31 U.S. Attorney's offices, with the defendant counts and dollar figures each one prints, in its own words. The national release names 44 partner districts.

31 rows · 21 columns · 20 KB CSV · source vintage U.S. Attorney's office releases dated 2026-09-14 to 2026-09-17 · compiled 2026-09-30

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Court records and case files

Document coverage by program, court and year

Coverage counts for our list of known documents as of 2026-10-16: for each relief program, court, year and record type, the number of listed entries and how many have a verified copy, a copy not yet verified, a known location behind the PACER paywall, a free location not yet downloaded, or no location yet. 162 rows across four dimensions.

162 rows · 12 columns · 12 KB CSV · source vintage Document list and copy checksums as of 2026-10-16 · compiled 2026-10-16

Rights: Counts compiled by Pandemic Darlings from public court records and government documents; attribution requested.

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Pandemic research tables

Five compiled tables that record what federal documents, court files and studies say, figure by figure: the actions announced against pandemic relief borrowers in 2026, what each published estimate of pandemic fraud measures, how small PPP loans got out and what the fee rules paid for delivering them, what published studies report about the program's outcomes, and what 31 concluded prosecutions recovered at each stage. None is part of release pandemic-darlings-data-v1-2026-07-10; each carries its own checksum.

Pandemic enforcement and suspension events, 2026

Federal actions on the pandemic relief programs announced in 2026, and the figures each announcement prints: 57 figures across 20 actions, in the words of the 18 documents that announced them.

57 rows · 28 columns · 64 KB CSV · source vintage SBA, SBA OIG, Justice Department, White House and PRAC documents dated 2026-01-02 to 2026-09-16 · compiled 2026-09-21

Rights: Compiled from U.S. government public records; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested for the compiled table.

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Pandemic fraud estimates: what each published figure measures

Published estimates of pandemic relief fraud, improper payment and recovery, each with the issuer's own term for what it counts, the amount exactly as printed, the denominator and period the issuer gives, and the caveats the issuer itself states: 22 estimates from 12 documents by 8 issuers.

22 rows · 31 columns · 30 KB CSV · source vintage Inspector general, GAO, Treasury, Justice Department, SBA and congressional documents dated 2022-09-21 to 2026-09-14 · compiled 2026-09-21

Rights: Compiled from U.S. government and congressional public records; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested for the compiled table.

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PPP small loans: who got them, when, and what the fee rules paid for making them

How the smallest PPP loans got out, month by month: 151 cells of approval month, loan-size band and draw, each with the loans approved, the dollars behind them, the median loan, and the lender fee the published schedule would pay for making them.

151 rows · 14 columns · 24 KB CSV · source vintage SBA's PPP loan-level release of 30 September 2024, priced with the fee schedules in 85 FR 20811, 86 FR 3692 and 86 FR 3712 · compiled 2026-09-21

Rights: Compiled from U.S. government public records; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested for the compiled table.

Download CSV 24 KBColumns, method & filesLoans by size band and month

What studies say about PPP outcomes

Findings about the outcomes of the Paycheck Protection Program, each read from the document itself: 82 findings from 40 documents, each with the estimate exactly as printed, the study's own words for its data, period, method and caveat, and the page the sentence sits on.

82 rows · 19 columns · 82 KB CSV · source vintage Economics papers, working papers, inspector general reports and official evaluations held in this archive, read as they stood on 2026-09-20 · compiled 2026-09-21

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Ordered, and then what: a recovery ledger for 31 concluded matters

Money figures for 31 concluded federal prosecutions, each kept at its own stage: 120 amounts from court orders, judgments and Justice Department releases, with the file, the page and the sentence behind every one.

120 rows · 18 columns · 67 KB CSV · source vintage Court judgments and orders held in this archive, and Justice Department press releases, read as they stood on 2026-09-20 · compiled 2026-09-21

Rights: Compiled from U.S. court records and government public records; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested for the compiled table.

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Key findings tables

The tables and code behind the key findings: the Justice Department's pandemic-relief announcements by year.

Justice Department pandemic-relief announcements by year

Justice Department press releases on pandemic relief fraud, counted by year and by what each one announces: new charges, pleas, convictions, sentences, civil settlements, civil suits, forfeitures and everything else. 56 rows.

56 rows · 12 columns · 3 KB CSV · source vintage Justice Department press releases dated 2019-10-25 to 2026-09-22 (135,785 releases) · compiled 2026-09-24

Rights: Compiled from U.S. government public records; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested for the compiled table.

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Unemployment insurance and the ERC

Unemployment overpayments by state, the official unemployment fraud figures by what each measures, and the Employee Retention Credit's official figures and cases. The unemployment insurance guide and the ERC guide use them.

Pandemic unemployment overpayments, by state and program

Overpayments the states established, recovered and waived in the pandemic unemployment programs, from the Labor Department's own report files: 265 rows for 53 states and territories and five programs.

265 rows · 30 columns · 63 KB CSV · source vintage DOL ETA 227 and ETA 902P files retrieved 2026-09-23; UIPL No. 11-26 (May 18, 2026) · compiled 2026-09-24

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Unemployment fraud and overpayment figures, by what they measure

Official figures for fraud, improper payments and overpayments in the pandemic unemployment programs, by what each measures: 32 figures.

32 rows · 24 columns · 27 KB CSV · source vintage Documents dated 2021-02-22 to 2026-05-18; PaymentAccuracy.gov retrieved 2026-09-23 · compiled 2026-09-24

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Employee Retention Credit figures and Justice Department cases

Official ERC figures from the IRS, IRS-CI, TIGTA, GAO, the National Taxpayer Advocate and the Treasury, and the Justice Department's ERC case releases: 42 figures.

42 rows · 15 columns · 26 KB CSV · source vintage Documents dated 2023-07-26 to 2026-09-19; Justice Department releases to 2026-09-15 · compiled 2026-09-24

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Womply and its PPP lenders

Womply referred PPP borrowers to partner lenders; this table follows the fees on those loans from each lender to Womply.

Womply's PPP fees, lender by lender

Womply said it collected $2.01 billion in PPP fees from lenders and platforms by April 14, 2022. One row per payer: its 2021 loans, SBA fees and Womply's share.

8 rows · 18 columns · 4 KB CSV · source vintage The SBA loan-level file of 2024-09-30, letters to the House Select Subcommittee of 2022, and court records dated 2021-08-27 to 2024-06-26 · compiled 2026-09-27

Rights: Derived from U.S. court records and government public data; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested for the compiled table.

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Source collections — the federal files behind every table

These are the raw federal files the tables were built from, exactly as acquired. Each collection page lists every file with its size, row count, and SHA-256, splits multi-file releases the way the publisher did, and links the official copy where the agency still hosts it. Mirrored copies of the source files are online at data.pandemicdarlings.com, with the checksums, so any copy can be verified against the bytes used here.

SBA PPP FOIA loan-level files

U.S. Small Business Administration. The SBA's FOIA release of every Paycheck Protection Program loan: 11,468,210 loans in thirteen CSV files, 2024-09-30 vintage, 5.2 GB. One file holds the loans of $150,000 and above; twelve hold the loans under $150,000.

11,468,210 rows · 13 files · 4.9 GB · CSV · vintage 2024-09-30 · acquired 2026-05-12

Rights: U.S. government public data; no additional rights asserted over the source files.

Files & provenance 13 filesSBA PPP FOIA loan-level data (original: data.sba.gov · stored capture)Schema JSON

USASpending COVID EIDL prime-award files

USASpending.gov. USASpending.gov award-level exports of the SBA's COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans: 3,680,124 awards in 38 files covering April 2020 through December 2022, downloaded 2026-06-22, 3.9 GB.

3,680,124 rows · 38 files · 3.6 GB · CSV · vintage 2020-04-01 through 2022-12-31; downloaded 2026-06-22 · acquired 2026-06-22

Rights: U.S. government public data; no additional rights asserted over the source files.

Files & provenance 38 filesOfficial source ↗ local copy (link now dead; copy taken from the Internet Archive, 6 August 2026)Schema JSON

SBA Restaurant Revitalization Fund award file

U.S. Small Business Administration. The SBA's FOIA file of all 100,828 Restaurant Revitalization Fund awards: business name and address, approval date, grant amount, restaurant type, and the uses of funds the applicant checked.

100,828 rows · 1 file · 16.6 MB · CSV · vintage Archived project copy acquired 2026-06-12 · acquired 2026-06-12

Rights: U.S. government public data; no additional rights asserted over the source file.

Files & provenance 1 fileRestaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF) FOIA (original: data.sba.gov) local copySchema JSON

SBA Shuttered Venue Operators Grant award file

U.S. Small Business Administration. The SBA's list of Shuttered Venue Operators Grant awards as of July 5, 2022: grantee, address, venue type, grant amount, and award date, in one Excel workbook.

1 file · 1.1 MB · VND.OPENXMLFORMATS-OFFICEDOCUMENT.SPREADSHEETML.SHEET · vintage 2022-07-05 · acquired 2026-06-12

Rights: U.S. government public data; no additional rights asserted over the source file.

Files & provenance 1 fileShuttered Venue Operators Grantees — SBA open data (U.S. Small Business Administration) (original: data.sba.gov) local copySchema JSON

DOJ press-release corpus, 2020–2026

U.S. Department of Justice. 135,405 Department of Justice press releases, dated October 25, 2019 through September 15, 2026, harvested from the DOJ's public API on July 4, 2026 and swept again on September 15, 2026 as two compressed JSON-lines files: the whole corpus the three enforcement tables were built from.

135,405 rows · 2 files · 120.0 MB · OCTET-STREAM · vintage 2019-10-25 through 2026-07-03, harvested 2026-07-04; supplement 2026-07-06 through 2026-09-15, swept 2026-09-15 · acquired 2026-07-04

Rights: U.S. government public records; no additional rights asserted over the source text.

Files & provenance 2 filesOfficial source ↗ local copySchema JSON

Treasury airline payroll support files and the section 4003 loan page

U.S. Department of the Treasury. PSP1, PSP2 and PSP3 payments as Treasury published them — 611, 489 and 484 rows — with the raw HTML of the CARES section 4003 loan page, which Treasury never published as a data file.

4 files · 286 KB · CSV, HTML · vintage 2023-08-17 (PSP1); 2022-07-27 (PSP2 and PSP3); 2026-07-21 (section 4003 page capture)

Rights: U.S. government public data; no additional rights asserted over the source files.

Files & provenance 4 filesPayroll Support Program (PSP1) Payments (original: home.treasury.gov)Schema JSON

State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds data files

U.S. Department of the Treasury. Treasury's quarterly Project and Expenditure reports, allocation tables and subaward file for the American Rescue Plan's fiscal recovery funds, rebuilt as tables with every row traced to its source spreadsheet, plus USAspending's obligations to tribal governments, which Treasury does not publish.

30 source files · 13 derived files · CSV · data through 2026-03-31 · acquired 2026-09-29

Rights: U.S. government public data; no additional rights asserted over the source files.

Files & provenanceCoronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) — Treasury (original: home.treasury.gov)Guide

Main Street Lending Program and PPPLF transaction disclosures

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve's transaction-level disclosures for two pandemic facilities: 1,830 Main Street loans as of 31 January 2021, and 346 PPPLF advance records as of 31 March 2026.

2 files · 288 KB · XLSX · vintage 2021-04-12 (MSLP release, data as of 2021-01-31); 2026-04-13 (PPPLF release, data as of 2026-03-31)

Rights: U.S. government public data; no additional rights asserted over the source files.

Files & provenance 2 filesReports to Congress Pursuant to Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act in response to COVID-19 (original: federalreserve.gov)Schema JSON

Education Stabilization Fund spending files

U.S. Department of Education. The Education Stabilization Fund Transparency Portal's grantee reports and monthly spending summaries for ESSER, GEER, EANS and HEERF, rebuilt as tables with every row traced to its source spreadsheet, and three views: national pace, the largest district awards and the largest college awards.

62 portal files · 11 derived files · CSV · latest summary 2026-09-03 · acquired 2026-09-29

Rights: U.S. government public data; no additional rights asserted over the source files.

Files & provenanceOfficial source ↗Guide

Coverage by program and year

Coverage across 6 programs and collections · 2020–2026

Measured on source & release dates

Program2020202120222023202420252026Collections
PPP loans
2020-04-03 → 2021-07-19		SBA PPP FOIA loan-level files, PPP per-lender totals, Top 500 PPP lenders by loan count, Top 500 PPP lenders by approved dollars, PPP processing-fee schedules by vintage, PPP charge-offs by originating lender
COVID EIDL
2020-04-25 → 2022-09-20		USASpending COVID EIDL prime-award files
Restaurant Revitalization Fund
2021-05-07 → 2022-12-23		SBA Restaurant Revitalization Fund award file
Shuttered Venue Operators Grant
2021-05-26 → 2022-06-22		SBA Shuttered Venue Operators Grant award file
Cross-program matches
2020-04-03 → 2022-12-31 (declared)		Cross-program recipient matches
DOJ enforcement
2019-10-25 → 2026-09-15		DOJ press-release corpus, 2020–2026, DOJ pandemic-fraud press-release index, Pandemic-fraud sentencing outcomes, PPP/EIDL identity-theft classification

A filled square means the collection's records include at least one date in that year. Ranges are measured on the files (source dates, approval dates, action dates, release dates) except where marked declared.

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Pandemic Darlings. Data downloads, release pandemic-darlings-data-v3-2026-09-18. https://pandemicdarlings.com/data/ (accessed 2026-09-12).

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Integrity files

Release pandemic-darlings-data-v3-2026-09-18, published 2026-09-18. Its manifest lists the release's 71 files (63 source files and 8 derived tables), each with its SHA-256 checksum and byte size, and a row count for 67 of them; tables built after the release print their SHA-256 on their own page.

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