Index · Rankings
Rankings
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
| List | Size | What it ranks and how | Source table | Source vintage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPP lenders: the 500 largest books | 500 lenders | PPP 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 totals | SBA PPP FOIA 2024-09-30 |
| Pandemic-relief prosecutions by district | 89 districts | Federal 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 outcomes | Project database promoted 2026-07-10 |
| Federal Agencies by COVID-19 Dollars Obligated | 28 rows | All 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: data | PRAC file as downloaded 18 September 2026 |
| Pandemic Programs by Dollars Obligated | 25 rows | The 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: data | PRAC file as downloaded 18 September 2026 |
| The Largest Main Street Lending Program Loans | 25 rows | The 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 disclosures | Federal Reserve disclosure of 12 April 2021, reporting transactions as of 31 January 2021 |
| Main Street Lenders by Participations Sold | 25 rows | The 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 disclosures | Federal Reserve disclosure as of 12 April 2021 |
| PPP Liquidity Facility: Institutions with Advances Still Outstanding | 19 rows | The 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 disclosures | Federal Reserve disclosure of 13 April 2026, reporting advances as of 31 March 2026 |
| The Largest Shuttered Venue Operators Grants | 25 rows | The 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 awards | SBA award file as of 5 July 2022 |
| PPP Lenders by Estimated Processing Fees | 25 rows | What 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 vintage | SBA 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 Vintage | 4 rows | The 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 vintage | SBA PPP FOIA release of 30 September 2024; fee build June 2026 |
| States by Suspended PPP and EIDL Borrowers | 57 rows | In 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, 2026 | SBA releases of 14 September 2026; dataset built 15 September 2026 |
| States by Suspension Rate per 1,000 Pandemic Loans | 55 rows | SBA's suspensions of pandemic-loan borrowers, divided by how many PPP and COVID EIDL loans each jurisdiction had. | SBA borrower suspensions by state, 2026 | SBA releases of 14 September 2026; dataset built 15 September 2026 |
| U.S. Attorney's Offices by Pandemic-Fraud Announcements | 25 rows | Which 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 index | releases from 17 March 2020 to 12 May 2026 |
| Provider Relief Fund: the 25 Largest Recipients | Pandemic Darlings | 25 rows | Every Provider Relief Fund payment HRSA has published, summed by provider and ranked. | HHS Provider Relief Fund and ARP Rural payments | HRSA table as retrieved 21 July 2026 |
| States and Territories by COVID-19 Relief Dollars Obligated | Pandemic Darlings | 59 rows | All 59 jurisdictions in the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee's funding table. | state-and-territory-funding-data.xlsx | PRAC file as downloaded 18 September 2026 |
| Federal Districts by Pandemic-Fraud Cases Announced | Pandemic Darlings | 25 rows | Which federal judicial districts the Justice Department's pandemic-fraud announcements came out of. | DOJ pandemic-fraud press index | releases 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.