Missing Children's Assistance — CFDA 16.543

Missing-children obligations at $455.8M

USAspending.gov records $455,794,714.45 in obligations under CFDA 16.543. Those 159 awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $2.87 million per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical award and not a unit cost for recoveries, hotline calls, or AMBER Alerts issued. Other Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention listings under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $455,794,714.45.

The assistance-listing title is MISSING CHILDREN'S ASSISTANCE. CFDA 16.543 is the identifier. Read the $455.8M headline — $455,794,714.45 in the award file — as the obligation book tagged 16.543 only. USAspending.gov assistance awards are the source. This page does not convert obligations into outlays or into a count of recoveries, hotline calls, or AMBER Alerts issued.

159 awards on 80 assistance partners

80 recipients share 159 awards. That is about 2.0 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $455,794,714.45 evenly would assign about $5.70 million per recipient. That density is a packet quotient, not a typical grant size and not a cost per unit of recoveries, hotline calls, or AMBER Alerts issued. The packet does not list the 80 named organizations. Read $455,794,714.45 only against CFDA 16.543.

Forty-eight jurisdictions describe a broad but not complete U.S. map. Assistance dollars follow funded missing-children partners, not equal shares of reported cases. Place-of-performance amounts, if shown, live on the program table. Recipient count is organizational, not a census of recoveries, hotline calls, or AMBER Alerts issued. A simple average is about $2.87 million per award. Combining 16.543 with other Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention listings under different CFDA numbers would invent a combined total this packet does not contain.

Award rows are not a case census

Among assistance listings, 16.543 is a mid-row nonprofit-and-state file: 159 awards against 80 named recipients in 48 jurisdictions. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of projects” and a worse proxy for recoveries, hotline calls, or AMBER Alerts issued. The recipient field (80 recipients) tells you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (159) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report recoveries, hotline calls, or AMBER Alerts issued. Citing 159 as that unit would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions. The $455,794,714.45 stock is the obligation figure from USAspending.gov. Eighty recipients in 48 jurisdictions is a national-partner assistance pattern.

Obligations versus missing-children outlays

The $455,794,714.45 is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Missing Children's Assistance 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 16.543 to size this listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a dashboard of recoveries, hotline calls, or AMBER Alerts issued. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 16.543. The $455.8M figure is the compact form of $455,794,714.45.

What the 16.543 tables omit

Geographic coding covers 48 jurisdictions. Forty-eight jurisdictions describe a broad but not complete U.S. map. Assistance dollars follow funded missing-children partners, not equal shares of reported cases. It is not a case-clearance dashboard, not a law-enforcement roster, and not a count of every missing-child report. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $455,794,714.45.

Place-of-performance on 48 jurisdictions is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares of Missing Children's Assistance funding. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid.

Where the 16.543 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 16.543 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings. For 16.543 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 16.543’s 159 awards spread $455,794,714.45 across 80 recipients and 48 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 2.0 award records per recipient is the density story. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for missing children's assistance?

USAspending.gov records $455,794,714.45 in obligations for CFDA 16.543. SpendingVault indexes 159 awards, 80 recipients, and 48 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a count of recoveries, hotline calls, or AMBER Alerts issued. CFDA 16.543’s $455.8M is the compact form of that USAspending stock.

How many awards does CFDA 16.543 carry?

The listing shows 159 awards against 80 recipients, or about 2.0 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $2.87 million per award. Award count is not a count of recoveries, hotline calls, or AMBER Alerts issued. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 16.543 awards?

The extract lists 80 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 16.543, not a census of recoveries, hotline calls, or AMBER Alerts issued. Geographic coding covers 48 jurisdictions. The packet does not name them. The packet reports obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.

Is $455.8M already spent on missing-children programs?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 16.543’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or recoveries, hotline calls, or AMBER Alerts issued. The $455.8M ($455,794,714.45) on 159 awards is the obligation figure.