Conservation Stewardship Program — CFDA 10.924

Stewardship obligations at $4.08 billion

USAspending.gov records $4,079,721,325.60 in obligations under CFDA 10.924. Fifty-six thousand three hundred forty-five awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $72,400 per award — smaller than a typical research grant and consistent with many producer-level or contract-level assistance rows rolled under a small recipient set. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical farm conservation payment.

The assistance-listing title is CONSERVATION STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM. CFDA 10.924 is the identifier. Other conservation listings tagged under other CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $4.08 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined conservation total this packet does not contain.

52 recipients holding 56,345 award rows

Fifty-two recipients share 56,345 awards, or about 1,083 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $4.08 billion evenly would assign about $78.5 million per recipient. That pattern matches a file in which a state-level or designated entity is the named recipient while many underlying contract actions land as separate award rows. The packet does not list the 52. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of farmers or acres.

Fifty-six states in the geographic count show nationwide coding, including territories as the source stored them. Conservation dollars still concentrate where enrolled land sits. The state count does not flatten those differences. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not an acreage census

Among conservation listings, 10.924 is an unusually dense file: 56,345 rows against 52 recipients. Contract modifications and annual actions can inflate award count relative to unique enrollments. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of stewardship contracts” or “acres treated.” Recipients (52) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (56,345) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report acres, soil metrics, or producer counts. Citing 56,345 as farms or acres would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus conservation outlays

The $4.08 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Conservation Stewardship Program awards — are not in the packet. A recipient can show a large obligation stock while producer payments follow a multi-year contract calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 10.924 to size the Conservation Stewardship Program listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as an acreage or outcomes dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 10.924.

What the 10.924 tables omit

The Conservation Stewardship Program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not an acreage map, not a producer roster, and not a ranking of soil-health scores. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $4,079,721,325.60. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 56,345 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 56 states is a coding field. A statewide recipient coded to one cell can dominate geography while enrolled parcels sit in many counties. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares.

Where the 10.924 table lives

The Conservation Stewardship Program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 10.924 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other conservation listings. For 10.924 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 10.924’s 56,345 awards spread $4,079,721,325.60 across 52 recipients and 56 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 1,083 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

CFDA 10.924 is indexed at $4,079,721,325.60 in obligations, 56,345 awards, 52 recipients, and 56 states on USAspending.gov. Conservation Stewardship Program should be cited on that CFDA row alone. The $4.08 billion figure sizes the listing in the assistance file. It does not convert obligations into outlays, and it does not convert award count into a service, patient, student, or project census.

Readers who need the overlay tables should start on the program page for CFDA 10.924, then rank the listing on the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings; they do not replace the $4,079,721,325.60 obligation stock. Keep the four facts together when quoting Conservation Stewardship Program: dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov, award count as a stored-row count, recipient count as the organizational headcount (including 0 when the extract stores none), and the state figure as a geographic coding count.

Questions

How much is obligated for the Conservation Stewardship Program?

USAspending.gov records $4,079,721,325.60 in obligations for CFDA 10.924. SpendingVault indexes 56,345 awards, 52 recipients, and 56 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not an acreage count. CFDA 10.924’s $4.08 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

Why does CFDA 10.924 have so many awards and so few recipients?

The listing shows 56,345 awards against 52 recipients, or about 1,083 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $72,400 per award. That file shape is consistent with many contract-level rows under a small named-recipient set. Award count is not a farm or acre count.

How many organizations receive Conservation Stewardship awards?

The extract lists 52 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 10.924. Geographic coding covers 56 states. The packet does not name the 52 or publish producer rolls. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. CFDA 10.924’s $4.08 billion on 56,345 awards, with 52 recipients and 56 states in this aggregate, is the USAspending obligation stock.

Is $4.08 billion already paid to producers?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 10.924’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or acres enrolled. The $4.08 billion on 56,345 awards is the obligation figure.