Steve, contact you corrupt member of congress and ask it’s staff to to give you a list.
Now while I don’t know who your congressthief is they are all corrupt so it is not singling yours out by calling it a thief, fro they are all thieves, liars, and scallywags.
I’m guessing that much of the money is given out through the whole range of agencies. Kinda like the DOJ giving a half million dollars to MSU to study right wingers on the internet.
The EPA gives money to inner city areas for “sustainable living”.
No need for research; if you’re an Idiot or a Criminal in the US, and you have a whacked-out idea, your chances of getting a government grant are assured.
If you’re an Idiot or a Criminal and you have a Ph.D., go to the front of the line.
https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx
Walden, a game Total amounts: $100,000 (approved); $100,000 (awarded)
Not sure how accurate it is, but it's a start.
Also, it doesn't just list grants, it also lists contracts, which are different animals for spending purposes.
For example, a Congressional appropriation to HUD may in the fine print include authorization for community-based consumer education on housing choices. Federal housing money then might be dispensed as grants and contracts to local governments, their housing agencies, and to non-profit organizations that in turn hire may hire other organizations to do the actual work.
In that manner, booklets get distributed and classes advertised and held in libraries, the YMCA, and in other community meeting places on how to apply for a mortgage and get the best terms. Yet finding out in full how much is spent for such purposes and who is ultimately getting the money is nearly impossible for the general public.
Notably, ACORN grew large, rich, and powerful by researching and getting such grants and gradually accumulating large sums as administrative and supervisory expenses, with slices up-streamed into affiliated profit-making entities that paid earnings to ACORN’s founder and his key lieutenants. When attention was directed at ACORN after the scandals broke, the full extent of the operation staggered even government experts because ACORN used hundreds of subsidiaries and affiliates and took advantage of the weakness of federal auditing and accounting to hide the extent and nature of what they were doing.
If you intend to try to pursue this, my advice is to narrow your research scope to a specific federal department, agency, or program and then get a handle on their accounting and database system for grants and contracts. That means Internet searches, library research, and calls to the pertinent Congressional committees.
With an understanding of one federal unit, you could research others. You may eventually find that you have enough for a dissertation or a book.