Every government that spends $750K+ in federal awards files a public single audit. Look up any city, county, or district's audit report card — findings, material weaknesses, filing timeliness — and see how it stacks up against similar-sized peers nationwide. Data from the Federal Audit Clearinghouse, audit years 2023–2025.
Search 24,000+ cities, counties, school districts, and special districts by name.
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Reading the report card: percentiles compare the latest audit against every local government in the same annual-federal-spend band (loan balances that must be re-reported each year are excluded from banding). Letters under findings are the compliance areas cited — hover any letter for its name. “Repeat” findings are ones the auditor attested repeat a prior-year finding.
Distinct audit findings from audit years 2023–2025, grouped by the Compliance Supplement requirement they cite. Click a row to see what drives it and which programs are most often cited.
Takeaway: Reporting is the #1 compliance failure for local governments — and a large share of reporting findings are repeats from a prior audit. Procurement and program-specific special tests round out the top three.
Peer bands by annual federal expenditures. Bigger governments have more findings but file on time; small governments miss the 9-month deadline far more often.
Each row counts local-government audits that covered at least one of the agency's programs, and how many of those audits reported a finding on that agency's money. Click an agency for its riskiest programs.
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Agencies with fewer than 200 local-government audits are grouped into “Other federal agencies.”
Under 2 CFR 200 Subpart F (the Uniform Guidance), any government that spends $750,000 or more in federal awards in a fiscal year — rising to $1 million for fiscal years beginning on or after October 1, 2024 — must undergo a single audit: an organization-wide examination of its financial statements and its compliance with federal program requirements. The results are public records filed with the Federal Audit Clearinghouse, but they're hard to explore and nearly impossible to benchmark. This tool makes three years of local-government single audits searchable and comparable.
Audit history matters beyond the audit itself: pass-through agencies and federal awarding offices use it in the risk assessments that determine how heavily your government is monitored — and repeat findings or late filings can affect future awards. If your government receives federal money through your state, your funders are already looking at this data. See how federal dollars flow to local governments on our Federal Grant Map, or learn how Avila helps teams stay compliant after the award.
All data comes from the Federal Audit Clearinghouse public API, covering audit years 2023 through 2025 for entities classified as local governments — cities, towns, counties, school districts, housing authorities, and special districts. States, tribes, nonprofits, and universities are excluded. Expenditure peer bands exclude outstanding loan balances that 2 CFR 200.502(b) requires auditees to re-report as expenditures every year, so loan-heavy governments are compared on actual new federal money. Where one government filed under multiple identifiers, records are merged by normalized name. The dataset refreshes periodically; audit years roll forward as new filings are accepted.
Any government or nonprofit that spends $750,000 or more in federal awards in a fiscal year ($1 million for fiscal years beginning on or after October 1, 2024) must undergo a single audit under 2 CFR 200 Subpart F — an organization-wide audit of both its financial statements and its compliance with federal program requirements. Results are filed publicly with the Federal Audit Clearinghouse.
The Federal Audit Clearinghouse (fac.gov), the official repository for single audit reports, covering audit years 2023 through 2025 for entities classified as local governments.
The Clearinghouse data lists each finding once for every federal award it touches, so one finding cited across many programs appears many times. We count distinct findings by their reference number (e.g., 2024-001) and show the citation count separately.
Based on the government's own fiscal-year-end cadence, a newer audit's 9-month filing deadline has passed without a filing appearing in the Clearinghouse. That can mean the audit is overdue — or that a single audit was no longer required because federal spending fell below the threshold.
Pass-through agencies and federal awarding offices use single audit history in risk assessments that determine monitoring intensity and can affect future awards. Knowing where your government stands against similar-sized peers — and which compliance areas trip peers up most — tells you where to focus internal controls before the next audit. Avila's post-award management platform helps you fix the underlying tracking and reporting gaps.
The dataset is rebuilt periodically from the Federal Audit Clearinghouse public API. New audit years appear as filings are accepted; recent months are always partial because audits are due nine months after each government's fiscal year end.
Avila tracks deadlines, spending, and reporting requirements across every award — so reporting findings, the #1 audit failure, never start.
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