Aid to Tribal Governments — CFDA 15.020

Tribal-government obligations at $469.4M

USAspending.gov records $469,415,042.24 in obligations under CFDA 15.020. Those 306 awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $1.53 million per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical award and not a unit cost for tribes served, government functions staffed, or compact dollars drawn. Other Bureau of Indian Affairs tribal listings under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $469,415,042.24.

The assistance-listing title is AID TO TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS. CFDA 15.020 is the identifier. Read the $469.4M headline — $469,415,042.24 in the award file — as the obligation book tagged 15.020 only. USAspending.gov assistance awards are the source. This page does not convert obligations into outlays or into a count of tribes served, government functions staffed, or compact dollars drawn.

306 awards on 162 tribal recipients

162 recipients share 306 awards. That is about 1.9 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $469,415,042.24 evenly would assign about $2.90 million per recipient. That density is a packet quotient, not a typical grant size and not a cost per unit of tribes served, government functions staffed, or compact dollars drawn. The packet does not list the 162 named organizations. Read $469,415,042.24 only against CFDA 15.020.

Twenty-six jurisdictions describe where tribal-government awards are coded, not a count of federally recognized tribes. Aid dollars follow funded tribal governments. Place-of-performance amounts, if shown, live on the program table. Recipient count is organizational, not a census of tribes served, government functions staffed, or compact dollars drawn. A simple average is about $1.53 million per award. Combining 15.020 with other Bureau of Indian Affairs tribal listings under different CFDA numbers would invent a combined total this packet does not contain.

Award rows are not a tribe census

Among assistance listings, 15.020 is a mid-row tribal-government file: a few hundred awards against 162 named recipients in 26 jurisdictions. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of projects” and a worse proxy for tribes served, government functions staffed, or compact dollars drawn. The recipient field (162 recipients) tells you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (306) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report tribes served, government functions staffed, or compact dollars drawn. Citing 306 as that unit would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions. The $469,415,042.24 stock is the obligation figure from USAspending.gov. One hundred sixty-two recipients in 26 jurisdictions is a tribal-government coding map.

Obligations versus tribal-aid outlays

The $469,415,042.24 is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Aid to Tribal Governments awards — are not in the packet. A file can show a large obligation stock while draws, reimbursements, or closeouts follow a different schedule. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. Treasury outlays are a separate series.

Use CFDA 15.020 to size this listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a dashboard of tribes served, government functions staffed, or compact dollars drawn. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 15.020. The $469.4M figure is the compact form of $469,415,042.24.

What the 15.020 tables omit

Geographic coding covers 26 jurisdictions. Twenty-six jurisdictions describe where tribal-government awards are coded, not a count of federally recognized tribes. Aid dollars follow funded tribal governments. It is not a recognition roster, not a compact-versus-contract split, and not a per-capita tribal census. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $469,415,042.24.

Place-of-performance on 26 jurisdictions is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares of Aid to Tribal Governments funding. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid.

Where the 15.020 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 15.020 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings. For 15.020 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 15.020’s 306 awards spread $469,415,042.24 across 162 recipients and 26 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 1.9 award records per recipient is the density story. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for Aid to Tribal Governments?

USAspending.gov records $469,415,042.24 in obligations for CFDA 15.020. SpendingVault indexes 306 awards, 162 recipients, and 26 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a count of tribes served, government functions staffed, or compact dollars drawn. CFDA 15.020’s $469.4M is the compact form of that USAspending stock.

How many awards does CFDA 15.020 carry?

The listing shows 306 awards against 162 recipients, or about 1.9 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $1.53 million per award. Award count is not a count of tribes served, government functions staffed, or compact dollars drawn. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 15.020 awards?

The extract lists 162 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 15.020, not a census of tribes served, government functions staffed, or compact dollars drawn. Geographic coding covers 26 jurisdictions. The packet does not name them. The packet reports obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.

Is $469.4M already paid to tribal governments?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 15.020’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or tribes served, government functions staffed, or compact dollars drawn. The $469.4M ($469,415,042.24) on 306 awards is the obligation figure.