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Pandemic Programs by Dollars Obligated
The 25 assistance listings that obligated the most COVID-19 supplemental money, out of 529 in the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee's funding table. Those 25 listings account for $2247.31B (92.8 percent) of the $2422.74B obligated across all 529 listings, led by the Paycheck Protection Loan Program (PPP) at $811.58B.
Downloaded 18 September 2026Universe 529 assistance listings ($2422.74B obligated)Source PRAC agency funding table
- No. 1 Paycheck Protection Loan Program (SBA)
- $811.58B
- Obligated across the top 25 listings (92.8% of total)
- $2247.31B
- Total obligated across all 529 assistance listings
- $2422.74B
- Distinct assistance-listing numbers in the PRAC file
- 529
How 25 assistance listings account for 92.8% of the money
Grouped by CFDA assistance-listing number across the PRAC’s 1,482 agency-and-listing rows.
The top 25 assistance listings hold $2247.31B (92.8%) of the $2422.74B total
Paycheck Protection alone ($811.58B) is a third of the entire 529-listing total; the remaining 504 listings split $175.43B.
The 25 largest assistance listings in the PRAC funding table
Grouped by CFDA assistance-listing number across 1,482 rows in the PRAC agency funding file (downloaded 18 September 2026).
Source: PRAC agency-funding-data.xlsx (downloaded 18 September 2026).
- 1
Paycheck Protection Loan Program (PPP)
$811.58BObligated · 1st of 529 assistance listings- Agency
- Small Business Administration
- Outlayed
- $811.57B
A loan program enters at the amount obligated; this single listing is nearly three times the size of No. 2.
Source: PRAC agency funding table
- 2
Education Stabilization Fund
$277.09BObligated · 2nd of 529 assistance listings- Agency
- Department of Education
- Outlayed
- $272.08B
The Department of Education’s highest-ranked assistance listing in the PRAC table.
Source: PRAC agency funding table
- 3
Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds
$242.72BObligated · 3rd of 529 assistance listings- Agency
- Department of the Treasury
- Outlayed
- $349.76B
In the PRAC extract, recorded outlays ($349.76B) exceed the obligated column ($242.72B).
Source: PRAC agency funding table
The 25 largest programs
Sortable by obligated or outlayed dollars.
| # | Assistance listing | Awarding agency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paycheck Protection Loan Program (PPP) | Small Business Administration | $811.58B | $811.57B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 2 | Education Stabilization Fund | Department of Education | $277.09B | $272.08B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 3 | Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds | Department of the Treasury | $242.72B | $349.76B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 4 | HRSA COVID-19 Claims Reimbursement for the Uninsured Program and the COVID-19 Coverage Assistance Fund | Department of Health and Human Services | $167.58B | $167.58B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 5 | Coronavirus Relief Fund | Department of the Treasury | $149.84B | $149.86B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 6 | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program | Department of Agriculture | $105.70B | $98.06B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 7 | Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) | Department of Homeland Security | $63.00B | $11.04B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 8 | Coronavirus Relief - Pandemic Relief for Aviation Workers | Department of the Treasury | $58.88B | $58.92B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 9 | Federal Transit Formula Grants | Department of Transportation | $51.94B | $58.26B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 10 | Child Care and Development Block Grant | 2 agencies | $51.88B | $51.24B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 11 | Disaster Assistance Loans | Small Business Administration | $44.65B | $44.63B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 12 | Pension Plan Termination Insurance | Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation | $35.00B | $34.70B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 13 | Restaurant Revitalization Fund | Small Business Administration | $28.53B | $28.53B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 14 | Economic Injury Disaster Loan Emergency Advance | Small Business Administration | $27.60B | $27.16B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 15 | Airport Improvement Program | Department of Transportation | $19.88B | $19.73B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 16 | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Investigations and Technical Assistance | Department of Health and Human Services | $18.42B | $10.89B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 17 | Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program | Small Business Administration | $14.54B | $14.59B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 18 | Presidential Declared Disaster Assistance to Individuals and Households - Other Needs | Department of Homeland Security | $13.94B | $0.10B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 19 | Disabilities Prevention | Department of Health and Human Services | $11.56B | $9.37B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 20 | Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund | Department of the Treasury | $10.00B | $1.66B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 21 | Highway Planning and Construction | 2 agencies | $9.75B | $8.51B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 22 | Immunization Research, Demonstration, Public Information and Education Training and Clinical Skills Improvement Projects | Department of Health and Human Services | $9.07B | $6.46B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 23 | Emergency Capital Investment Program | Department of the Treasury | $8.57B | $8.57B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 24 | Health Center Program (Community Health Centers, Migrant Health Centers, Health Care for the Homeless, and Public Housing Primary Care) | Department of Health and Human Services | $8.05B | $8.13B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
| 25 | National School Lunch Program | Department of Agriculture | $7.52B | $7.52B | PRAC agency table (18 Sep 2026) |
How this list is built
Method & definitions
- Unit ranked
- the assistance listing, identified by its number.
- Metric
- obligated dollars funded by COVID-19 supplementals.
- Universe
- 529 assistance listings, $2422.74B obligated in total; the 25 below are $2247.31B of it, 92.8 percent.
- Vintage
- PRAC file as downloaded 18 September 2026.
The PRAC's agency funding table carries an assistance listing (the CFDA program number and title) on every row. The archive downloaded the file on 18 September 2026. This list groups its 1,482 rows by the assistance-listing number in the file's cfdanumber column, sums the obligated and outlayed columns, and ranks by obligations. The file prints 1,478 different title strings for those 529 numbers, and 975 of the rows carry a title that runs several listings together, so the title is not the unit. Where a listing's titles are all combined ones, the title shown here is the segment of the combined label that carries that listing's number. The awarding-agency column names the agency where one agency accounts for the whole listing, and counts agencies where more than one does.
What this measures, and what it does not
An assistance listing is an accounting label, not a program as the public knows it. Umbrella listings hide their own internals: the Paycheck Protection Program is a single row for a program of more than eleven million loans, while relief delivered inside a block grant is invisible under the block grant's name. Titles are reproduced from the file, with only their capitalisation normalised.
Obligations are commitments, not cash paid. Loan guarantees and grants both enter at the amount obligated, so a dollar of guaranteed lending and a dollar of grant rank alike.
Anything USAspending does not carry is absent, including tax-side relief such as the Employee Retention Credit.
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…)