USAID funding by country is tracked on the federal portal ForeignAssistance.gov, and in FY2024, the last full fiscal year before USAID was dissolved as an independent agency in July 2025, the largest recipients of total U.S. foreign assistance were Israel, Ukraine, Jordan, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The ranking shifts sharply depending on whether you count military financing or only civilian development programs, and recent-year data is incomplete because of the 2025 restructuring.
Top Recipient Countries in FY2024
Combining all foreign assistance accounts across U.S. agencies, the ten largest recipients in FY2024 were:
- Israel: $6.82 billion
- Ukraine: $6.51 billion
- Jordan: $1.74 billion
- Ethiopia: $1.31 billion
- Democratic Republic of the Congo: $1.26 billion
- Somalia: $963 million
- Nigeria: $879 million
- South Sudan: $842 million
- Kenya: $832 million
- Mozambique: $764 million
Ukraine moved to the top of the civilian and economic assistance ranking after Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Congress appropriated $174.2 billion through five supplemental appropriation acts from FY2022 through FY2024 for the overall Ukraine response, spanning military aid, economic support, and humanitarian programs across multiple agencies.1Ukraine Oversight. Funding Sub-Saharan Africa consistently received the highest cumulative USAID development spending, which is why Ethiopia, the DRC, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Kenya, and Mozambique all appear on the list.
Why the Israel Number Is Misleading for USAID Comparisons
Israel’s $6.82 billion is almost entirely Foreign Military Financing administered by the Department of Defense, not USAID development aid. Actual USAID-funded programs in Israel totaled roughly $4 million in FY2024, covering a handful of small advisory and medical projects.2ForeignAssistance.gov. Israel – U.S. Foreign Assistance by Country If you strip out military financing and look only at USAID development and humanitarian spending, Sub-Saharan African countries dominate the ranking.
This distinction matters for anyone comparing countries. Jordan and Egypt also receive large military-linked allocations tied to longstanding treaty commitments. When you pull a country’s total on the federal portal, check which account the money sits in before drawing conclusions about the U.S. development footprint there.
What the Money Pays For
Foreign assistance flows through separate budget accounts, and the account label determines what the money can legally fund. When you open a country page on the portal, the spending breaks down along these lines.
Global Health
Health programs historically consumed the single largest share of USAID spending. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, launched in 2003, has invested over $100 billion in the global HIV/AIDS response and is credited with saving 25 million lives.3United States Department of State. About Us – PEPFAR Health funding has also supported malaria prevention, maternal and child health, tuberculosis treatment, and pandemic preparedness.
Humanitarian Assistance
Emergency food aid, refugee support, and disaster relief fall under humanitarian assistance. USAID consolidated its former Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and Food for Peace programs into a single Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance in 2020. These funds respond to earthquakes, droughts, and armed conflict, often on timelines that bypass the normal budget cycle.
Economic Support and Development
The Economic Support Fund is a flexible account for countries where special economic, political, or security conditions serve U.S. national interests. By statute, ESF money can only be used for economic programs and may not finance military or paramilitary activities.4Office of the Law Revision Counsel. 22 USC Chapter 32 Subchapter II Part IV – Economic Support Fund Separate Development Assistance accounts fund longer-term work like agricultural productivity, clean water, and education in lower-income countries.
Peace and Security
A smaller share supports rule-of-law programs, border security, counter-narcotics work, and professionalization of local law enforcement, often in conflict zones or countries transitioning out of authoritarian rule.
Why 2025 and 2026 Numbers Look Different
On January 20, 2025, the White House issued an executive order titled “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid,” imposing a 90-day pause on all new obligations and disbursements of development assistance funds. Every agency with foreign development responsibilities was told to halt spending pending a review for “programmatic efficiency and consistency with United States foreign policy,” with the Office of Management and Budget enforcing the pause through its control of fund apportionment.5The White House. Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid
By March 2025, approximately 83% of USAID contracts had been canceled. Hundreds of employees were placed on administrative leave, and overseas staff received evacuation notices. A federal judge temporarily blocked some workforce actions in February 2025 and ordered reinstatements, but that relief was brief.
On July 1, 2025, USAID formally ceased to exist as an independent agency. Its remaining humanitarian functions were absorbed into the State Department under a new Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response, staffed by a fraction of the previous USAID workforce. PEPFAR continued in a limited form, with the administration’s review restricting it to what it defined as “life-saving HIV services”: treatment, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, and HIV testing, while scaling back broader prevention, education, and health-system work.3United States Department of State. About Us – PEPFAR
The FY2026 budget request from the Trump administration asked for $31.52 billion in new budget authority for State Department and foreign operations accounts, a 41% decrease from FY2025 enacted levels, and proposed rescinding $22.3 billion in prior-year funding that had been appropriated but not yet spent. Together the request represented a 79.3% effective decrease from FY2025. The House Appropriations Committee approved a bill providing roughly $50 billion, a 58.5% increase over the request but still 6.5% below the prior year.6Congressional Research Service. Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs – FY2026 Budget and Appropriations Even at the higher congressional figure, the trend is well below the FY2022 through FY2024 peak, when Ukraine supplemental funding pushed total foreign assistance above $99 billion.7Congressional Research Service. U.S. Foreign Assistance
How to Look Up a Specific Country
ForeignAssistance.gov is the primary government portal for tracking U.S. foreign aid spending by country, and as of early 2026 it was still operational and accepting data updates.8ForeignAssistance.gov. ForeignAssistance.gov – Dashboard You can filter by fiscal year, recipient country, funding agency, and type of assistance. The portal distinguishes between obligations, which are binding commitments to spend, and disbursements, which represent money that has actually moved.
Treat recent fiscal years as incomplete. FY2024 and FY2025 figures are only partially reported, and the 2025 disruption of USAID has made reporting even less complete. The site’s move to International Aid Transparency Initiative publication standards has also led to the loss of associated project documents that previously covered program design, implementation details, and evaluation results.
Because the portal captures spending across the State Department, Department of Defense, and other agencies involved in foreign aid, you can see the full picture for countries where the largest flows are military rather than developmental, as with Israel.2ForeignAssistance.gov. Israel – U.S. Foreign Assistance by Country For context on the overall scale, total U.S. foreign assistance across all agencies represented roughly 1.5% of the federal budget in FY2023.7Congressional Research Service. U.S. Foreign Assistance