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Stuff that should be simple usually isn't — finding where the money goes, getting to a real answer, making sense of what's in front of you. Every project here exists to fix that, one tool at a time. Fast, free, obvious. If you need a tutorial to use it, it's not done yet.

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💰 Where The Money Goes
Follow every federal, state, and local dollar — translated into plain English.
Live contracts, grants, congressional stock trades, donor data, fraud convictions, and the daily brief. Every claim sourced. No login. No ads. Click anywhere to open the dashboard. →
Entities indexed
200+
recipients · agencies · politicians · insurers · nonprofits
Beat Reporter
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events ingested · last 24h
Corrections published
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all-time · transparent record
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Civic Data
Where The Money Goes
Live federal + state + local money trail. Contracts, grants, open solicitations, foreign aid, watchlists for big defense / pharma / oil / private prisons / consulting / PE, fraud convictions & SAM exclusions, the tax shadow budget, every member of Congress with their donors and disbursements, dark-money flows, the federal register, charts & visualizations, ZIP search, year-over-year, anomalies. Every recipient gets a 5-source profile (USAspending + ProPublica 990 + SEC EDGAR + OpenSecrets + FEC + CourtListener). Free forever, no login, no ads.
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The Next One
Something else that should've been simpler than it was. Same rules: real inputs, real outputs, nothing to sign up for.
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And After That
Plenty more lined up. If a thing is annoying enough to put up with daily, it's annoying enough to build a tool for.
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