Where does your information come from?

Official state plans, agency records, procurement portals, and primary CMS documents across all fifty states, checked against the federal program rules. The program runs through fifty separate state processes, so this information is otherwise scattered; assembling it is the work.

How do I know a number on this site is right?

Every fact carries an inline citation pin. Open it to see the source document, its URL, the date we accessed it, and a confidence label, then click through and read the line yourself. Each state also publishes a receipt page listing every figure with its verbatim source quote.

What happens when you get something wrong?

It goes on the public errata page with the date, the page affected, what was wrong, and what is right. A corrections log nobody can see is not a corrections log.

Why do some states show no dollar amounts?

A state's award and named initiatives are verified as soon as CMS publishes them, but pool-level dollar allocations publish only once that state's budget clears CMS review. Rather than estimate the missing figures, those pages say so and fill in when the state's budget clears.

Trust

How we research, refresh, and verify.

One discipline runs through every state page: publish only what we can source, and say how fresh it is.

Primary sources first

Every fact starts at the source. The statute, Section 71401 of Public Law 119-21. The CMS program documents and award announcements. Each state's published plan, its lead agency pages, and its procurement portals. We read the original, then we record it with a link, so you can read it too.

Stability tiers

Not every fact ages at the same speed. A statutory dollar figure is settled. A named program officer can change next quarter. An open deadline moves. So each fact is handled according to how fast it changes.

Stable

Award amounts, statute, sub-initiative budgets. Settled facts, shown without a date stamp.

Slow-moving

Named officials, gate organizations, at-risk hospital lists. Shown with the quarter we last confirmed them.

Volatile

Open funding opportunities, listening sessions, deadlines. Shown with a live timestamp and refreshed most often.

Citation discipline

Every claim resolves to a citation: source, link, access date, confidence. You can see how this works on the provenance page. When two sources disagree, we surface the more authoritative one and note the difference rather than averaging them away.

Freshness is earned, source by source

A national refresh does not stamp every citation with today's date. Each source has to respond, and any stored quote has to match what the source currently says. A successful fetch can advance the access date. A missing page, blocked request, binary document we cannot quote-check, or quote mismatch stays at its prior verified date and enters the public verification queue.

On August 9, 2026, this process checked 812 citations across 602 unique source URLs for all 50 states. The unresolved blocked and transient sources are published on the errata and verification page, separate from corrections to facts that were previously shown.

We publish only what we can source

When a state has not released a detail, we leave it marked as open rather than fill it with a guess. When we infer a figure from a comparable state, we label it as an inference. The goal is a map you can stake a bid on, which means the gaps are honest too.

When we get something wrong, we fix it in the open. Every correction since launch lives on the errata page.

Questions people actually ask

Where does your information come from?: Official state plans, agency records, procurement portals, and primary CMS documents across all fifty states, checked against the federal program rules. The program runs through fifty separate state processes, so this information is otherwise scattered; assembling it is the work.
How do I know a number on this site is right?: Every fact carries an inline citation pin. Open it to see the source document, its URL, the date we accessed it, and a confidence label, then click through and read the line yourself. Each state also publishes a receipt page listing every figure with its verbatim source quote.
What happens when you get something wrong?: It goes on the public errata page with the date, the page affected, what was wrong, and what is right. A corrections log nobody can see is not a corrections log.
Why do some states show no dollar amounts?: A state's award and named initiatives are verified as soon as CMS publishes them, but pool-level dollar allocations publish only once that state's budget clears CMS review. Rather than estimate the missing figures, those pages say so and fill in when the state's budget clears.

More on how the program works in the full program FAQ and the federal program rules.