Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loans and Grants — CFDA 10.855

DLT dollars on 261 loan-and-grant records

Assistance listing 10.855 is titled DISTANCE LEARNING AND TELEMEDICINE LOANS AND GRANTS in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $936,350,706. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $936.4M as equipment already installed mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

261 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $936,350,706 by 261 produces a mean near $3.59 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical school-or-clinic equipment invoice. Distance-learning and telemedicine dollars often sit on project-level assistance actions, which is why 261 records can carry $936.4M.

249 recipients nearly match 261 awards

CFDA 10.855 lists 249 recipients and 46 states against 261 awards. Recipient count is not unique students or patients. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing. Awards (261) and recipients (249) sit close together: most rows look like one-to-one actions. The 46-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, not a map of every rural classroom or clinic.

Because award and recipient counts are close, extra modifications can still lift the 261 tally without moving $936,350,706 much. The DLT hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another. The title includes loans and grants; this extract does not split those instruments.

Obligations versus DLT outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $936,350,706 figure for CFDA 10.855 can include commitments that will disburse later. A connectivity report, a loan amortization schedule, and a Treasury outlay series are different publications. This page does not translate the obligation total into those series.

If a number you expected is missing, the usual cause is a different reporting concept. Start from the obligation definition, then open the 10.855 program page. Do not stretch 261 awards or 249 recipients to cover every federal dollar that touches rural distance learning or telemedicine.

What the 10.855 tables omit

The Distance Learning and Telemedicine hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a bandwidth-speed file, not a telehealth-visit log, and not a loan-versus-grant split. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $936,350,706. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 261 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 46 states is a coding field. A consortium coded to one cell can dominate geography while endpoints sit in many counties. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 10.855

A complete citation is $936,350,706 in obligations for CFDA 10.855, covering 261 awards, 249 recipients, and 46 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is one-to-one project volume, lead with 261 awards and 249 recipients, then the $936.4M total.

Start with the Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loans and Grants program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is a connectivity application instruction.

A worked reading of the 10.855 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $936,350,706, 261 awards, 249 recipients, and 46 states under CFDA 10.855. The mean near $3.59 million is a quotient from the award count, not a typical equipment package. If a later USAspending.gov file adds many small actions, 261 can rise while dollars barely move. If a few giant commitments post, $936.4M can jump without a matching jump in 249 recipients.

Nothing in the extract splits distance learning from telemedicine, or loans from grants. Those cuts live outside this packet. Treat CFDA 10.855 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 261 awards and 249 recipients next to the dollars so the near one-to-one pattern is visible.

Questions

How much is obligated under Distance Learning and Telemedicine?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $936,350,706 in obligations for CFDA 10.855, Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loans and Grants. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of connections. The same extract lists 261 awards, 249 recipients, and 46 states.

Does CFDA 10.855 split loans from grants?

Not in this packet. The listing title includes loans and grants, but the extract reports one obligation total of $936,350,706 on 261 awards. The 249-recipient count is organizational recipients, not a loan-versus-grant split. Cite the combined obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Does the $936.4M total include equipment already paid?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $936,350,706 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 261-award count is a record tally, not a count of endpoints installed. Cite CFDA 10.855 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 10.855?

The extract codes 46 states for Distance Learning and Telemedicine. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every rural school or clinic. Those rows still sit under the $936,350,706 obligation total and the 249-recipient count.