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Rankings from public records and the archive's derived data files. Each list below names the table it ranks, how the order is computed, and the vintage of the source it was built from.

Published rankings

ListSizeWhat it ranks and howSource tableSource vintage
PPP lenders: the 500 largest books500 lendersPPP originating lenders by approved dollars. The 500 ranked rows hold 9,226,746 loans and $659,065,090,673.01 in approved dollars, and the Womply and Blueacorn platform networks appear in the same table without a rank; each lender page carries its row, its rank by dollars and by loan count, and the archive pages that name it.PPP per-lender totalsSBA PPP FOIA 2024-09-30
Pandemic-relief prosecutions by district89 districtsFederal districts by rows in the pandemic-relief sentences table: 89 districts across 51 states and territories, 963 rows in all. Each district page lists the rows as the table prints them.Pandemic-fraud sentencing outcomesProject database promoted 2026-07-10
Federal Agencies by COVID-19 Dollars Obligated28 rowsAll 28 awarding agencies in the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee's funding table, ranked by the dollars they obligated from COVID-19 supplemental appropriations.PRAC, Track the money: dataPRAC file as downloaded 18 September 2026
Pandemic Programs by Dollars Obligated25 rowsThe 25 assistance listings that obligated the most COVID-19 supplemental money, out of 529 in the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee's funding table.PRAC, Track the money: dataPRAC file as downloaded 18 September 2026
The Largest Main Street Lending Program Loans25 rowsThe 25 largest loans the Federal Reserve's Main Street Lending Program bought a participation in, from the Fed's own transaction-specific disclosure.Federal Reserve Main Street and PPPLF disclosuresFederal Reserve disclosure of 12 April 2021, reporting transactions as of 31 January 2021
Main Street Lenders by Participations Sold25 rowsThe 25 banks that sold the most Main Street loan principal to the Federal Reserve, out of 320 lender-and-state pairs in the Fed's transaction-specific disclosure.Federal Reserve Main Street and PPPLF disclosuresFederal Reserve disclosure as of 12 April 2021
PPP Liquidity Facility: Institutions with Advances Still Outstanding19 rowsThe 19 institutions that still had PPP Liquidity Facility advances outstanding on 31 March 2026, ranked by the original amount of those advances. This is the tail of the facility, not a record of everything it lent.Federal Reserve Main Street and PPPLF disclosuresFederal Reserve disclosure of 13 April 2026, reporting advances as of 31 March 2026
The Largest Shuttered Venue Operators Grants25 rowsThe 25 largest Shuttered Venue Operators Grants, from SBA's award file. 280 grantees were awarded exactly $10 million, the program's ceiling, so every row below is a grantee at the cap.SBA Shuttered Venue Operators Grant awardsSBA award file as of 5 July 2022
PPP Lenders by Estimated Processing Fees25 rowsWhat the Paycheck Protection Program paid lenders to originate it — modeled loan by loan from SBA's published fee schedule, because SBA never published what each lender was actually paid.PPP fee schedules by vintageSBA PPP FOIA release of 30 September 2024; fees recalculated from the loan file on 19 September 2026
What the 2021 Fee Schedule Was Worth, by Vintage4 rowsThe Paycheck Protection Program changed how it paid lenders between its 2020 and 2021 rounds. This is the fee pool each vintage of loans generated under the schedule that governed it, modeled from SBA's published schedules, and what the same loans would come to under the other one.PPP fee schedules by vintageSBA PPP FOIA release of 30 September 2024; fee build June 2026
States by Suspended PPP and EIDL Borrowers57 rowsIn September 2026 SBA said it had suspended about 870,000 pandemic-loan borrowers from further agency lending. This ranks that breakdown, with five jurisdictions carried from earlier 2026 releases. This is that breakdown, ranked.SBA borrower suspensions by state, 2026SBA releases of 14 September 2026; dataset built 15 September 2026
States by Suspension Rate per 1,000 Pandemic Loans55 rowsSBA's suspensions of pandemic-loan borrowers, divided by how many PPP and COVID EIDL loans each jurisdiction had.SBA borrower suspensions by state, 2026SBA releases of 14 September 2026; dataset built 15 September 2026
U.S. Attorney's Offices by Pandemic-Fraud Announcements25 rowsWhich offices announced the most pandemic-fraud press releases, counted from 2,709 Justice Department releases between March 2020 and May 2026.DOJ pandemic-fraud press indexreleases from 17 March 2020 to 12 May 2026
Provider Relief Fund: the 25 Largest Recipients | Pandemic Darlings25 rowsEvery Provider Relief Fund payment HRSA has published, summed by provider and ranked.HHS Provider Relief Fund and ARP Rural paymentsHRSA table as retrieved 21 July 2026
States and Territories by COVID-19 Relief Dollars Obligated | Pandemic Darlings59 rowsAll 59 jurisdictions in the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee's funding table.state-and-territory-funding-data.xlsxPRAC file as downloaded 18 September 2026
Federal Districts by Pandemic-Fraud Cases Announced | Pandemic Darlings25 rowsWhich federal judicial districts the Justice Department's pandemic-fraud announcements came out of.DOJ pandemic-fraud press indexreleases from 17 March 2020 to 15 September 2026

Every figure in this table is read from the list page or the data-table page it links to. A ranking here is an ordering of a published table, not a judgment: the order follows the column the list names, and each list says how it breaks ties.

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