Rural Energy for America Program — CFDA 10.868

A high-volume listing: 6,828 awards under $1.07B

Assistance listing 10.868 is titled RURAL ENERGY FOR AMERICA PROGRAM in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $1,069,703,089.95. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $1.07B as cash already paid for rural energy equipment mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

6,828 awards sit under that dollar book—a high record count next to a still-large sum. Dividing $1,069,703,089.95 by 6,828 produces a mean near $156,700 per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical project invoice and not a cost per kilowatt. REAP dollars often sit on many project-level assistance actions, which is why 6,828 records can coexist with $1.07B without implying that every action is the same size.

6,587 recipients nearly match 6,828 awards

CFDA 10.868 lists 6,587 recipients and 53 states against 6,828 awards. Recipient count is not unique farms. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing. Awards (6,828) and recipients (6,587) sit close together: most rows look like one-to-one actions rather than a few agencies carrying thousands of modifications. The 53-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, not a map of every rural energy installation.

Because award volume is high, extra modifications can lift the 6,828 tally without moving $1,069,703,089.95 much, while a few large commitments can do the reverse. The REAP hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another. Repeat actions still increment the award count even when the recipient is already on the 6,587 list.

Obligations versus rural-energy outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $1,069,703,089.95 figure for CFDA 10.868 can include commitments that will disburse later. A guaranteed-loan ledger, a kilowatt-installed report, 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 10.868 program page. Do not stretch 6,828 awards or 6,587 recipients to cover every federal dollar that touches rural energy.

What the 10.868 tables omit

The Rural Energy for America Program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not an energy-production file, not a loan-guarantee balance sheet, and not a farm-size census. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,069,703,089.95. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 6,828 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 53 states is a coding field. A recipient coded to one cell can dominate geography while projects sit in many counties. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 10.868

A complete citation is $1,069,703,089.95 in obligations for CFDA 10.868, covering 6,828 awards, 6,587 recipients, and 53 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is record volume rather than dollars, lead with 6,828 awards and 6,587 recipients, then the $1.07B total.

Start with the Rural Energy for America Program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is an application instruction or a project ranking.

A worked reading of the 10.868 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $1,069,703,089.95, 6,828 awards, 6,587 recipients, and 53 states under CFDA 10.868. The mean near $156,700 is a quotient from a high award count, not a typical REAP project. If a later USAspending.gov file adds many small actions, 6,828 can rise while dollars barely move. If a few giant commitments post, $1.07B can jump without a matching jump in 6,587 recipients.

Nothing in the extract splits renewable energy from energy-efficiency, or grants from loans. Those cuts live outside this packet. Treat CFDA 10.868 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 6,828 awards next to the dollars so volume is not inferred from the sum.

Questions

How much is obligated under the Rural Energy for America Program?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $1,069,703,089.95 in obligations for CFDA 10.868, Rural Energy for America Program. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of energy systems installed. The same extract lists 6,828 awards, 6,587 recipients, and 53 states.

Why does CFDA 10.868 have 6,828 awards?

The indexed award count is 6,828. REAP dollars often sit on many project-level assistance actions, which is why $1,069,703,089.95 coexists with a high record count. The 6,828 figure is a file statistic, not a count of farms or kilowatts. 6,587 organizational recipients are stored on those rows, nearly one recipient per award.

Does the $1.07B total include money already paid to rural energy projects?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $1,069,703,089.95 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 6,828-award count is a record tally, not a count of checks issued. Cite CFDA 10.868 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 10.868?

The extract codes 53 states for the Rural Energy for America Program. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every installation. Those rows still sit under the $1,069,703,089.95 obligation total and the 6,587-recipient count.