How much is obligated under tribally controlled college assistance?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $886,383,624 in obligations for CFDA 15.027, Assistance to Tribally Controlled Community Colleges and Universities. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of students. The same extract lists 125 awards, 37 recipients, and 13 states.

How many tribal colleges appear on CFDA 15.027?

The indexed recipient count is 37 against 125 awards and 13 states. That is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores, not a census of students or campuses worldwide. The $886,383,624 obligation total still sits on those 125 award rows.

Does the $886.4M total include operating funds already spent?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $886,383,624 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 125-award count is a record tally, not a count of enrollments. Cite CFDA 15.027 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 15.027?

The extract codes 13 states for this tribal-college listing. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every tribal nation. Those rows still sit under the $886,383,624 obligation total and the 37-recipient count.

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Assistance to Tribally Controlled Community Colleges and Universities — CFDA 15.027

$886.4M in federal obligations ($886,383,624) is recorded for Assistance to Tribally Controlled Community Colleges and Universities (CFDA 15.027) in USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault. That headline is an obligation sum, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of students enrolled. The same extract lists 125 awards, 37 recipients, and 13 states. The program hub holds those rows; this page stays inside those four facts.

Key figures

CFDA 15.027 shows $886,383,624 in USAspending obligations.
125 awards and 37 recipients sit under that $886.4M total across 13 states.
Geographic coverage is concentrated: 13 coded states and 37 organizational recipients.
Figures are obligations from USAspending.gov, not Treasury outlays or enrollment counts.

Tribal-college dollars on 125 award records

Assistance listing 15.027 is titled ASSISTANCE TO TRIBALLY CONTROLLED COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $886,383,624. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $886.4M as tuition already posted mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

125 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $886,383,624 by 125 produces a mean near $7.09 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical institutional operating grant and not a cost per student. Tribal-college assistance dollars often sit on a modest number of institutional actions, which is why 125 records can carry $886.4M.

37 recipients in 13 states

CFDA 15.027 lists 37 recipients and 13 states against 125 awards. Recipient count is not unique students. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing. A tribal college can appear on more than one award; 37 is not a census of campuses worldwide. The 13-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, concentrated rather than national, and is not a map of every tribal nation.

125 awards against 37 recipients averages about 3.4 award records per recipient. Extra modifications can lift the 125 tally without moving $886,383,624 much. The 15.027 hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another.

Obligations versus institutional outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $886,383,624 figure for CFDA 15.027 can include multi-year institutional commitments that will disburse later. An enrollment table, an IPEDS extract, 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 15.027 program page. Do not stretch 125 awards or 37 recipients to cover every federal dollar that touches tribally controlled colleges.

What the 15.027 tables omit

The tribally controlled colleges hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a student roster, not a degree-completion file, and not a facilities-condition index. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $886,383,624. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 125 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 13 states is a coding field. An institution coded to one cell can dominate geography while instruction reaches students in many counties. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 15.027

A complete citation is $886,383,624 in obligations for CFDA 15.027, covering 125 awards, 37 recipients, and 13 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is how many institutions appear, lead with 37 recipients and 13 states, then the $886.4M total.

Start with the Assistance to Tribally Controlled Community Colleges and Universities program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is admissions advice.

A worked reading of the 15.027 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $886,383,624, 125 awards, 37 recipients, and 13 states under CFDA 15.027. The mean near $7.09 million is a quotient from a modest award count, not a typical operating grant. If a later USAspending.gov file adds large institutional actions, dollars can jump while 37 recipients barely move. If modifications proliferate, 125 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $886.4M.

Nothing in the extract splits operating from construction, or community colleges from universities. Those cuts live outside this packet. Treat CFDA 15.027 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 37 recipients and 13 states next to the dollars so the concentrated institution set is visible.

Questions

How much is obligated under tribally controlled college assistance?: USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $886,383,624 in obligations for CFDA 15.027, Assistance to Tribally Controlled Community Colleges and Universities. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of students. The same extract lists 125 awards, 37 recipients, and 13 states.
How many tribal colleges appear on CFDA 15.027?: The indexed recipient count is 37 against 125 awards and 13 states. That is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores, not a census of students or campuses worldwide. The $886,383,624 obligation total still sits on those 125 award rows.
Does the $886.4M total include operating funds already spent?: Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $886,383,624 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 125-award count is a record tally, not a count of enrollments. Cite CFDA 15.027 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.
How many states appear on CFDA 15.027?: The extract codes 13 states for this tribal-college listing. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every tribal nation. Those rows still sit under the $886,383,624 obligation total and the 37-recipient count.

CFDA/Assistance Listing numbers from USAspending assistance awards on SpendingVault.