American Rescue Plan Act: State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds

Breakdown by Social Determinant of Health
Detailed Overview of the Investment Opportunities
State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds
State Snapshots of Verified Funds
Notice of Funding Opportunities

The section of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) titled “Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds” permits the most flexibility for states and localities to determine how to spend allocated funding. According to the State and Fiscal Recovery Funds Final Rule, these funds should be spent in the following four ways:

  • Responding to COVID-19 and its negative economic impact
  • Supporting essential workers
  • Providing government services
  • Investing in water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure

Use the maps to view how much funding will be sent to the state, county, city, and non-entitlement units. With this information, you can begin to think strategically and explore possible options for blending and braiding ARPA funding within and across jurisdictions.

Quick Tips

Quick Tips

Click states to explore the various jurisdictional levels of funding: states, counties, cities, and non-entitlement units. Reclick to deselect.

On the map, hover over the image for navigation tools. The three different dotted-line shapes will allow you to click and drag on the map to select multiple geographic entities.

  • The list of individual non-entitlement units that are eligible to receive Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funding dollars can be found here.
  • Cities and states around the country have started to take action and make decisions about how to spend their Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund dollars. To see actions taken by cities, visit the National League of Cities’ Local Action Tracker.
  • For more information about how states plan to spend their funding, visit the National Conference of State Legislatures’ ARPA State Recovery Fund Allocations database.

The State and Local Fiscal Recover Funds page shows the most flexible category of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding for states, cities, counties, and non-entitlement units. The state and local fiscal recovery funds respond to emergencies created by the COVID-19 pandemic, including:

  • Supporting essential workers
  • Increasing government services
  • Increasing water, sewer, and broadband internet infrastructure

Access the full user guide for key terms and instructions on how to use this page.

TIP: Hold the Ctrl (control) key on a PC or the command button on a Mac to select multiple states or identify a region with the map. Click on the map again or press the house icon to return the map to the original view.

For any questions about Funding Resilience: Advancing Multisector Investments for Equity©, the user guide, or methodology, please contact aligning@gsu.edu.

The dashboard Methodology details the data sources used throughout the site and how the information was collected. For more information about the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds, visit the Department of the Treasury or the Methodology.

For any questions about Funding Resilience: Advancing Multisector Investments for Equity©, the user guide, or methodology, please contact aligning@gsu.edu.