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Good Governance · Point 02, Transparency & Point 03, Accountability

Federal Dollars in Long Island's Districts

Every federal grant going to Long Island since October 2020, mapped by town and viewable by congressional, State Senate or State Assembly district. Each dollar is labeled by where it came from: an earmark a member of Congress requested, pandemic relief, the infrastructure law, a research grant, formula money every community receives, or a competitive grant.

Data from USAspending.gov, the U.S. Treasury's official record of federal awards, refreshed monthly. District lines are the current boundaries from the U.S. Census Bureau; legislators from Open States. See the Congress Tracker for who funds these members' campaigns.

Click a circle to see a town's awards, or a district to switch.
Circle size shows dollars to that town. The number is how many awards. Dollars can be filtered by source in the panel.
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How to read this

Where the money came from

Earmarks are projects a member of Congress asked for by name (Community Project Funding or Congressionally Directed Spending). Formula funding and pandemic relief reach every community by law, whoever represents it. Research and competitive grants are won by the recipient in a federal competition.

Members often announce all of these as wins. Only earmarks reflect a member's specific request.

What's counted

Grants, block grants and cooperative agreements, plus Treasury's pandemic-recovery payments to local governments (American Rescue Plan Fiscal Recovery Funds, the CARES Act Relief Fund and Emergency Rental Assistance), with any activity since October 1, 2020, where the work happens in the district, or where the recipient is based in the district and no other location is given. The amount is the total federal commitment on the award; the year is the federal fiscal year it began (October to September).

What's missing

Contracts, loans and payments to individuals (like Social Security) are left out. Money that reaches Long Island through New York State agencies, such as many highway and water projects, is recorded under the state, not the district. Earmarks that are approved but not yet awarded don't appear until the agency signs the grant.

USAspending also has no record of some towns' American Rescue Plan Fiscal Recovery Fund allocations, including the towns of Oyster Bay, Hempstead and North Hempstead, so those payments aren't shown here.

State Senate and Assembly views

These show the same federal awards, sorted into state legislative districts by the ZIP code where the work happens. ZIP codes don't follow district lines, so an award near a border may belong to the district next door, and awards that list no town aren't assigned. State legislators don't direct federal money; this view shows what reaches the communities they represent.

Check any award

Every award links to its record on USAspending.gov, with the full history of payments and modifications. Earmark labels are matched from the federal program and the award's description, so a few may be missed; the award record is the authority.

Not affiliated with any member of Congress, state legislator or government agency. Town locations use ZIP code centers from SimpleMaps (CC BY 4.0).