Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid — CFDA 15.904

Preservation obligations at $487.4M

USAspending.gov records $487,408,505.37 in obligations under CFDA 15.904. Those 1,686 awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $289,092 per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical award and not a unit cost for buildings listed, National Register nominations, or brick-and-mortar restorations finished. Other National Park Service historic-preservation listings under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $487,408,505.37.

The assistance-listing title is HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND GRANTS-IN-AID. CFDA 15.904 is the identifier. Read the $487.4M headline — $487,408,505.37 in the award file — as the obligation book tagged 15.904 only. USAspending.gov assistance awards are the source. This page does not convert obligations into outlays or into a count of buildings listed, National Register nominations, or brick-and-mortar restorations finished.

1,686 awards on 585 recipients

585 recipients share 1,686 awards. That is about 2.9 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $487,408,505.37 evenly would assign about $833,177 per recipient. That density is a packet quotient, not a typical grant size and not a cost per unit of buildings listed, National Register nominations, or brick-and-mortar restorations finished. The packet does not list the 585 named organizations. Read $487,408,505.37 only against CFDA 15.904.

Fifty-nine jurisdictions cover states, territories, and extra coded entities. Preservation dollars follow funded offices and projects, not equal shares of historic buildings. Place-of-performance amounts, if shown, live on the program table. Recipient count is organizational, not a census of buildings listed, National Register nominations, or brick-and-mortar restorations finished. A simple average is about $289,092 per award. Combining 15.904 with other National Park Service historic-preservation listings under different CFDA numbers would invent a combined total this packet does not contain.

Award rows are not a building census

Among assistance listings, 15.904 is a high-row grants-in-aid file: more than a thousand awards against hundreds of named SHPOs, tribes, and subrecipients. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of projects” and a worse proxy for buildings listed, National Register nominations, or brick-and-mortar restorations finished. The recipient field (585 recipients) tells you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (1,686) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report buildings listed, National Register nominations, or brick-and-mortar restorations finished. Citing 1,686 as that unit would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions. The $487,408,505.37 stock is the obligation figure from USAspending.gov. The 59-jurisdiction count is a coding field, not a count of historic properties.

Obligations versus preservation outlays

The $487,408,505.37 is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid 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 15.904 to size this listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a dashboard of buildings listed, National Register nominations, or brick-and-mortar restorations finished. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 15.904. The $487.4M figure is the compact form of $487,408,505.37.

What the 15.904 tables omit

Geographic coding covers 59 jurisdictions. Fifty-nine jurisdictions cover states, territories, and extra coded entities. Preservation dollars follow funded offices and projects, not equal shares of historic buildings. It is not a National Register inventory, not a tax-credit ledger, and not a building-by-building restoration log. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $487,408,505.37.

Place-of-performance on 59 jurisdictions is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares of Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid funding. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid.

Where the 15.904 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 15.904 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings. For 15.904 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 15.904’s 1,686 awards spread $487,408,505.37 across 585 recipients and 59 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 2.9 award records per recipient is the density story. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated from the Historic Preservation Fund?

USAspending.gov records $487,408,505.37 in obligations for CFDA 15.904. SpendingVault indexes 1,686 awards, 585 recipients, and 59 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a count of buildings listed, National Register nominations, or brick-and-mortar restorations finished. CFDA 15.904’s $487.4M is the compact form of that USAspending stock.

How many awards does CFDA 15.904 carry?

The listing shows 1,686 awards against 585 recipients, or about 2.9 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $289,092 per award. Award count is not a count of buildings listed, National Register nominations, or brick-and-mortar restorations finished. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 15.904 awards?

The extract lists 585 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 15.904, not a census of buildings listed, National Register nominations, or brick-and-mortar restorations finished. Geographic coding covers 59 jurisdictions. The packet does not name them. The packet reports obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.

Is $487.4M already spent on restoration?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 15.904’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or buildings listed, National Register nominations, or brick-and-mortar restorations finished. The $487.4M ($487,408,505.37) on 1,686 awards is the obligation figure.