U.S. Government (USAID, State and Other Agencies) · Foreign Aid Spending, Last 12 Months (IATI) · US$ billions

## What this measures

Money the U.S. government's foreign aid agencies paid out each month, as they report it to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI): disbursements and expenditures by USAID, the State Department and every other U.S. agency that publishes (21 in October 2026), official development assistance (ODA) only. Each point is the sum of the twelve months (four quarters) to that date.

Two rules keep the total honest. Only ODA flows count: the State and Defense Department data also carry military and other non-ODA assistance, which is left out. And money one U.S. agency passes to another (in 2024, for example, US$3.8 billion of ODA from the State Department to USAID) is left out, because the receiving agency reports spending it.

## Why it matters

The OECD publishes each year's official aid figures in April of the next year and its recipient tables a year after that. IATI is where publishers report spending as it happens, so it shows month by month who cut, who did not, and where the money stopped arriving, well before the OECD tables.

## How to read it

USAID reported most of its spending at quarter ends until September 2024 (from 2022 to 2024 March, June, September and December carry eight to twenty times the transactions of the months between) and month by month from October 2024, so before then single months jump at quarter ends. The twelve-month series smooths that. In 2025 USAID's remaining programmes moved to the State Department (from 1 July 2025); the series follows the spending whichever agency reports it.

IATI data arrive as publishers report, and recent months fill in late. The IATI Datastore keeps no earlier versions, so Palanor measures each publisher's lag from IATI-Stats' daily record (January 2024 to October 2025) of how far its newest transaction trailed each day's read, and uses the 90th percentile, capped at 90 days: 52 days for USAID (the U.S. agencies use its reporting pattern). A month is published only once its end is that many days past and the publisher has reported it, and the six newest published months are flagged preliminary. Each point keeps the value Palanor first read and the date it read it, so later revisions can be measured.

## What it does not say

Coverage: the IATI total was 82.6% of the U.S. ODA figure in OECD DAC1 (grant equivalent) in 2023 and 81.3% in 2024, and 89.3% and 90.1% of U.S. ODA gross disbursements in the OECD Creditor Reporting System (CRS). IATI counts cash paid in the year; DAC1 counts the grant-equivalent ODA the U.S. reports, which also includes items the agencies do not publish to IATI. A month's figure is cash reported as paid out in that month, not what was budgeted or committed, and it says nothing about what the money achieved. Values are in each transaction's own currency, valued at its value date. Euro and pound values are converted at the Federal Reserve's monthly average rate for the value-date month (FRED EXUSEU, EXUSUK); a value date outside the window read, or after the latest monthly rate, takes the transaction month's or the latest rate.

## Source

IATI Datastore (api.iatistandard.org/datastore), transactions of type 3 (disbursement) and 4 (expenditure), read weekly by /api/cron/iati-spending-sync (src/lib/iati/spending.ts). U.S. agencies publish to IATI under CC0 (public domain); the Millennium Challenge Corporation marks its data public domain. Data © their publishers, used under the licences in their IATI Registry entries.