Payments to Agricultural Experiment Stations Under the Hatch Act — CFDA 10.203

Hatch Act obligations at $1.16 billion

USAspending.gov records $1,162,894,317.24 in obligations under CFDA 10.203. Five hundred ninety-five awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $1,954,444 per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical research project and not a cost per experiment. The $1,162,894,317.24 figure is an obligation sum from the assistance extract.

The assistance-listing title is PAYMENTS TO AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS UNDER THE HATCH ACT. CFDA 10.203 is the identifier. Other USDA research or land-grant listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $1.16 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined total this packet does not contain. Keep 10.203 separate on the programs index.

58 recipients and 10.3 awards each

Fifty-eight recipients share 595 awards, or about 10.3 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $1,162,894,317.24 evenly would assign about $20.05 million per recipient. That density is a land-grant formula pattern: one named station or university per jurisdiction carrying many assistance rows over time. The packet does not list the 58. Recipient count is not a census of scientists, plots, or publications.

Fifty-seven jurisdictions in the geographic count sit next to 58 recipients — nearly one named organization per coded place. Hatch Act dollars still follow statutory allocations, not equal shares. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award rows are not an experiment census

Among agriculture research listings, 10.203 is a land-grant formula file with many rows per station: 595 rows against 58 recipients. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of experiments” and a worse proxy for publications or acres. Recipients (58) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (595) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report faculty, graduate students, or research plots. Citing 595 as experiments or 58 as all colleges of agriculture would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions. The $1,162,894,317.24 stock is the obligation book only.

Obligations versus Hatch Act outlays

The $1,162,894,317.24 is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Hatch Act experiment-station payments awards — are not in the packet. A formula research file can show a large obligation stock while fiscal-year draws follow a later calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 10.203 to size this listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a publications dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 10.203.

What the 10.203 tables omit

The program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not an experiment log, not a faculty directory, and not an acreage ledger. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,162,894,317.24. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 595 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 57 jurisdictions is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those 57 cells as equal shares. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid. A researcher comparing 10.203 with other USDA research or land-grant codes should keep CFDA numbers separate. Hatch Act 10.203 is a 595-row, 58-organization book. About 10.3 rows per recipient is the fingerprint, not an experiment count. Read the $1,162,894,317.24 as the USAspending obligation stock for CFDA 10.203 only.

Where the 10.203 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 10.203 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings. For 10.203 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 10.203’s 595 awards spread $1,162,894,317.24 across 58 recipients and 57 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 10.3 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. CFDA 10.203 is a 58-station formula book across 57 jurisdictions, not a project-by-project research portfolio.

Questions

How much is obligated for Hatch Act experiment-station payments?

USAspending.gov records $1,162,894,317.24 in obligations for CFDA 10.203. SpendingVault indexes 595 awards, 58 recipients, and 57 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not an experiment or publication count. CFDA 10.203’s $1.16 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 10.203 carry?

The listing shows 595 awards against 58 recipients. A simple average is about $1,954,444 per award. About 10.3 award records per recipient Award count is not a count of research projects. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 10.203 awards?

The extract lists 58 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 10.203, not a census of agricultural scientists. Geographic coding covers 57 jurisdictions. The packet does not name the 58 or publish publication counts.

Is $1.16 billion already paid to experiment stations?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 10.203’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or experiments completed. The $1,162,894,317.24 on 595 awards is the obligation figure.