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Receives Grants

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor receives grants. In FPDS this is a vendor relationship attribute stored under the vendor site’s relationship-to-federal-government details. The value may be represented as a simple yes/no indicator or a code-like flag, so analysts should verify observed values in the dataset.

Family: IDV
Category: Vendor Site Details
Data Type: boolean_or_code_flag
Semantic Type: flag
Mapping: flattened_fpds_xml_field
AI Confidence: high

Variable Overview

FPDS Query Variable
content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment__receivesGrants
Title
Receives Grants
FPDS Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment/receivesGrants
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor receives grants. In FPDS this is a vendor relationship attribute stored under the vendor site’s relationship-to-federal-government details. The value may be represented as a simple yes/no indicator or a code-like flag, so analysts should verify observed values in the dataset.
Business Meaning
This field helps identify vendors that have grant-based federal funding relationships, which can be relevant for supplier profiling, financial dependency analysis, and compliance or conflict screening. It supports segmentation of vendors that may interact with the federal government through grants rather than, or in addition to, procurement awards.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
5,862,557

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment__receivesGrants
FPDS XML Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment/receivesGrants
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment/receivesGrants' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment__receivesGrants'.

Use Cases

  • Dictionary lookup and field explanation
  • SQL filtering and grouping
  • Analytical reporting and reusable query building
  • Contractor profiling and competitor analysis

Common Usage

  • filter vendors that receive grants
  • segment supplier populations by federal funding relationship
  • support compliance or dependency analysis

Common Mistakes

  • assuming the field is free text rather than a flag
  • treating null and false as the same without checking source encoding

Query Guidance

Use this field in WHERE clauses only after confirming the encoded values in your FPDS extract. For example, filter for the grant-receiving condition with an explicit true/yes value, and use DISTINCT or GROUP BY to validate how the flag is populated before building downstream metrics.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment__receivesGrants AS receives_grants
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment__receivesGrants IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

SELECT
    content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment__receivesGrants AS flag_value,
    count() AS record_count
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorRelationshipWithFederalGovernment__receivesGrants IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY flag_value
ORDER BY record_count DESC

Each dictionary item includes SQL-ready examples generated alongside the variable metadata, allowing immediate use in FPDS Query for filtering, aggregation, and analysis.