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Federal Agencies by COVID-19 Dollars Obligated

All 28 awarding agencies in the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee's funding table, ranked by the dollars they obligated from COVID-19 supplemental appropriations. The Small Business Administration ($928.91B), Treasury ($485.63B) and HHS ($328.77B) account for $1,743.31B of the $2.423 trillion total.

Downloaded 18 September 2026Universe 28 agencies · 529 assistance listings (1,482 rows)Source PRAC agency funding table

No. 1 Small Business Administration (13 listings): $928.91B
Combined obligations of the top 3 agencies (72.0%): $1,743.31B
Total obligated across all 28 awarding agencies: $2.423 trillion
Assistance listings grouped from 1,482 PRAC rows: 529

Concentration at the top of federal pandemic spending

SBA, Treasury and HHS together obligated 72.0% of the COVID-19 supplemental dollars in the PRAC funding table.

Three agencies account for $1,743.31B (72.0%) of the $2.423 trillion obligated

SBA ($928.91B), Treasury ($485.63B) and HHS ($328.77B) versus the other 25 awarding agencies in the PRAC table.

The 15 largest awarding agencies by COVID-19 supplemental obligations

Obligated dollars from COVID-19 supplemental appropriations across 1,482 agency-and-listing rows in the PRAC funding table (downloaded 18 September 2026).

1Small Business Administration$928.43B outlays · 13 listings$928.91B
2Department of the Treasury$634.20B outlays · 13 listings$485.63B
Treasury outlays exceed obligations ($634.20B vs. $485.63B): Both columns come straight from the PRAC’s USAspending extract of 18 September 2026 across 13 assistance listings.
3Department of Health and Human Services$307.26B outlays · 171 listings$328.77B
4Department of Education$275.10B outlays · 14 listings$280.38B
5Department of Agriculture$114.97B outlays · 91 listings$124.28B
6Department of Transportation$99.57B outlays · 11 listings$94.30B
7Department of Homeland Security$12.59B outlays · 24 listings$84.75B
8Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation$34.70B outlays · 1 listing$35.00B
9Department of Housing and Urban Development$15.79B outlays · 22 listings$22.30B
10Federal Communications Commission$9.56B outlays · 4 listings$13.37B
11Agency for International Development$6.91B outlays · 6 listings$6.74B
12Department of Commerce$1.01B outlays · 12 listings$5.61B
13Department of the Interior$3.01B outlays · 51 listings$3.08B
14Department of Veterans Affairs$1.94B outlays · 7 listings$2.10B
15Department of Labor$2.22B outlays · 5 listings$2.09B

Source: PRAC agency-funding-data.xlsx (downloaded 18 September 2026).

1
Small Business Administration
$928.91BCOVID-19 obligations · 1st of 28 awarding agencies
Outlays
$928.43B
Listings
13 assistance listings
Includes the Paycheck Protection Program ($811.58B obligated), where guaranteed loans enter at the committed amount.
Source: PRAC agency funding table
2
Department of the Treasury
$485.63BCOVID-19 obligations · 2nd of 28 awarding agencies
Outlays
$634.20B
Listings
13 assistance listings
Award-side supplemental money only; tax-code relief such as the Employee Retention Credit is not an obligation in USAspending.
Source: PRAC agency funding table
3
Department of Health and Human Services
$328.77BCOVID-19 obligations · 3rd of 28 awarding agencies
Outlays
$307.26B
Listings
171 assistance listings (most of any agency)
Spans 171 assistance listings out of the 529 in the PRAC table.
Source: PRAC agency funding table

The ranking

All 28 awarding agencies in the PRAC funding table. Click any numeric header to re-sort.

Showing all 28 awarding agencies · $2.423 trillion obligated across 529 listings

Downloaded 18 September 2026

Federal Agencies by COVID-19 Dollars Obligated
#	Awarding agency				Source
1	Small Business Administration	$928.91B	$928.43B	13	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
2	Department of the Treasury	$485.63B	$634.20B	13	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
3	Department of Health and Human Services	$328.77B	$307.26B	171	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
4	Department of Education	$280.38B	$275.10B	14	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
5	Department of Agriculture	$124.28B	$114.97B	91	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
6	Department of Transportation	$94.30B	$99.57B	11	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
7	Department of Homeland Security	$84.75B	$12.59B	24	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
8	Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation	$35.00B	$34.70B	1	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
9	Department of Housing and Urban Development	$22.30B	$15.79B	22	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
10	Federal Communications Commission	$13.37B	$9.56B	4	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
11	Agency for International Development	$6.74B	$6.91B	6	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
12	Department of Commerce	$5.61B	$1.01B	12	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
13	Department of the Interior	$3.08B	$3.01B	51	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
14	Department of Veterans Affairs	$2.10B	$1.94B	7	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
15	Department of Labor	$2.09B	$2.22B	5	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
16	Department of State	$1.59B	$1.82B	17	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
17	Department of Justice	$0.79B	$0.55B	1	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
18	Department of Defense	$0.78B	$0.03B	21	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
19	National Science Foundation	$0.65B	$0.53B	10	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
20	Corporation for National and Community Service	$0.48B	$0.44B	8	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
21	Election Assistance Commission	$0.34B	$0.34B	1	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
22	Institute of Museum and Library Services	$0.24B	$0.24B	6	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
23	National Endowment for the Humanities	$0.21B	<$0.01B	7	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
24	National Endowment for the Arts	$0.20B	$0.20B	2	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
25	Environmental Protection Agency	$0.07B	$0.05B	11	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
26	Railroad Retirement Board	$0.05B	$0.05B	1	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
27	Department of Energy	<$0.01B	<$0.01B	1	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)
28	U.S. International Development Finance Corporation	<$0.01B	<$0.01B	1	PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026)

Amounts under $5 million round to zero in billions and are shown as <$0.01B.

How this list is built

Method & definitions

Unit ranked: the awarding agency.
Metric: obligated dollars funded by COVID-19 supplementals, $2.423 trillion in total across 529 assistance listings.
Vintage: PRAC file as downloaded 18 September 2026.

The PRAC publishes an agency funding table built from USAspending: one row per awarding agency and assistance listing, with the amounts obligated and outlayed from COVID-19 supplemental appropriations. The archive downloaded that file on 18 September 2026. This list groups its 1,482 rows by awarding agency, sums both columns, and ranks by obligations.

What this measures, and what it does not

Obligations are commitments to spend; outlays are cash actually paid. Both columns are reproduced from the PRAC file and neither is adjusted for inflation.

This is USAspending's view of the money. A program USAspending does not carry is absent here, and relief delivered through the tax code — the Employee Retention Credit above all — is not an obligation and does not appear at all. An agency's rank therefore measures the supplemental money routed through its awards, not the whole of what it did.

The agency named is the awarding agency, not the agency that wrote the rules or the one that bore the loss. Loan programs enter at the amount obligated: the Paycheck Protection Program row is $811.58B, the money committed to the loans, so a guaranteed dollar and a granted dollar rank alike.

Amounts under $5 million round to zero in billions and are shown as <$0.01B.

Sources

PRAC, Track the money: data (original: pandemicoversight.gov)
File as held: agency-funding-data.xlsx (original: pandemicoversight.gov), the PRAC agency funding table as downloaded 18 September 2026 (sha256 4ae70be9ff6bbfdc…)