Blog, June 2020

The Fortune 500 is now well represented on the list of CARES Act recipients. Yesterday, the Federal Reserve posted its first batch of information on corporate bond purchases under the Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility. We have added the information to Covid Stimulus Watch.

Covid Stimulus Watch now contains more than 30,000 grant and loan awards from a dozen CARES Act programs. The latest additions include data relating to airports and public broadcasting stations as well as more on healthcare providers.

by Phil Mattera

The Department of Health and Human Services keeps updating the list of hospitals and other medical facilities receiving aid through the Provider Relief Fund. At Covid Stimulus Watch we scramble to capture the latest data and link the facilities listed by HHS to their health system parent entities.

HHS posted two updates to the list this week, and we have just finished adding our parent links to the data, which is now live on our site. We now include more than 11,000 grants of $500,000 or more from the program. These have a total value of $45 billion. For more info, see

Covid Stimulus Watch has doubled in size to more than 23,000 entries with the addition of extensive data from the Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payment Program.