ATLAS · PROGRAMS
Federal program pages.
One structured page for every Assistance Listing Number in the SAM catalog — tracing each program from authorizing law through fiscal obligations to recipient geography.
Law → Program → Money → Place → People
Federal program pages expose the civic reasoning spine American Context's agent uses internally. Each page joins the SAM Assistance Listings catalog, USAspending obligations, Treasury budget accounts, and the Congressional record into one citable surface.
Pages are generated from primary government records, claim-audited against structured facts, and quality-gated before any are added to search engine indexes. The first reviewed cohort of 25 program pages is approaching publication under the Atlas G5 workflow described in /data-sources.
What every program page contains
Summary
What the program does and who it serves, written in plain language.
Legal authority
Public laws, U.S. Code sections, and authorizing acts that fund the program.
Money
Obligation totals, award counts, and fiscal-year ranges drawn from USAspending and Treasury.
Geography
Top states, counties, and metros by obligation and award count.
Recipients
Pass-through entities and end recipients with linkable ontology references.
Related questions
Pre-built civic questions that launch the conversational agent on this program.
Sources and methodology
Visible citations to SAM Assistance Listings, USAspending, and Congress.gov primary records.
Graph context
Connected agencies, laws, regulations, awards, and places.
First reviewed cohort
These program pages have been built, claim-audited, and manually reviewed under the Atlas G5 pilot. Each links statutory authority to fiscal obligation flow and geographic distribution.
ALN 20.205
DOT Federal Highway Administration
Highway Planning and Construction
Core federal-aid highway program; IIJA-era obligations to every state DOT.
ALN 14.871
HUD
Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers
Largest federal rental-assistance program; PHA-level annual budget authority.
ALN 97.022
FEMA
Flood Insurance
National Flood Insurance Program; pre-disaster risk policy with congressional reauthorization cycle.
ALN 84.268
Department of Education
Federal Direct Student Loans
Single largest source of federal aid for postsecondary education.
ALN 10.912
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Environmental Quality Incentives Program
Working-lands conservation; cost-share with producers in every state.
ALN 10.924
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Conservation Stewardship Program
Companion to EQIP; pays producers for ongoing conservation activities.
ALN 10.450
USDA Risk Management Agency
Crop Insurance
Federal crop insurance subsidies; county-level participation and indemnities.
ALN 14.195
HUD
Project-Based Rental Assistance
Long-term rental assistance contracts tied to specific properties.
ALN 14.267
HUD
Continuum of Care Program
Federal homelessness-assistance program; CoC-level annual competition.
ALN 97.044
FEMA
Assistance to Firefighters Grant
Equips and trains local fire departments; per-county and per-department obligation trail.
ALN 59.073
Small Business Administration
Paycheck Protection Loan Program (PPP)
Closed but heavily-cited COVID-era program; recipient-level traceability.
ALN 59.012
Small Business Administration
7(a) Loan Guarantees
SBA's flagship small-business lending program; lender-level disbursement records.
How program pages are sourced
Each ALN aggregates records from SAM Assistance Listings, USAspending awards, Treasury budget accounts, and Congress.gov authorities. Every material claim points back to a primary government record with a visible citation.
Why this matters
Federal program pages turn opaque appropriations into navigable civic information. They give researchers, journalists, policymakers, and the public a single canonical surface for the law-to-money-to-place chain — and they give AI search systems a stable, citation-grade page family to retrieve from.