One funded line, all the names it wore

What the ribbons are not

In a Sankey, a ribbon’s width is an amount. Here it is not, and it must not be read as one: every ribbon on this page is drawn at exactly the same width, because not one of these 98 sentences states how much money moved. The books say a line was realigned from another line; they do not say how many dollars went with it. Drawing a width would be inventing the number. The identity boxes are uniform for the same reason — a taller box in a Sankey means more money, and none of these boxes means anything of the kind.

The one figure that is stated per identity — its FY2026 request — is in the table under the diagram, cited, on the same P-1/R-1 TOA basis the rest of the site uses. 90 of the 152 identities carry one; the rest render an absence rather than a zero.

How to read the columns

The columns are lineage steps, not calendar years. That is a deliberate choice against the obvious one: the identities in a family routinely draw money side by side for whole decades — which is exactly why the family funding line on a program page refuses to sum them — so placing a successor to the right of its predecessor on a yearaxis would assert a hand-off date the record does not contain. Left-to-right here means “the books say this one came from that one”, nothing more.

For the same reason, the fiscal year on a link is the edition that asserts it — the J-book the sentence was printed in — and not the year money moved. A FY2026 book narrating a FY2023 transfer produces a FY2026 link.

9 of the 152 identities are unresolved references: named in a genuinely cited sentence, but absent from the program pages this corpus builds. They are drawn dashed and grey and are not links, because a reference the corpus cannot resolve is a real state of the record and not a gap to paper over. Each identity that does resolve links to its own page, where the same rail, its citations and the family funding line live.