Analysis of the geographic distribution of federal funds has. heretofore been limited to the relative share of the federal pie obtained by each state (Pack, 1982; Holcombe and Zardkoohi, 1981; Crain and Tollison, 1977; Stigler, 1976; Ritt, 1976). Data aggregation problems have effectively precluded any such analysis at the congressional district level. Detailed information on federal expenditures by county and city has been collected and aggregated on a congressional district basis by the House Information Services office (HIS) for Fiscal Years 1981 and 1982.1 In this paper I undertake a Lorenztype examination of the geographic distribution of federal funds, by congressional district, for Fiscal Year 1981. A substantial inequality in the distribution is revealed: the lowest thirty percent of the districts receive a total of only about ten percent of all federal expenditures while the top ten percent of the districts garner nearly twenty-three percent. Analysis of the determinants of federal funds appropriation reveals that the richest congressional districts are getting progressively richer, and vice-versa. Political influence of the individual congressional representative is shown to be a strongly significant determining factor in the distribution of expenditures. In Section 2, the categories of information collected by HIS are discussed, and I present the plotted Lorenz curve distribution of the flow of federal funds to congressional districts. Factors that influence success in obtaining a larger share of distributed federal funds are analyzed in Section 3, on theoretical, then empirical grounds. Concluding comments with respect to public policy issues are offered in Section 4.