Violence Against Women Formula Grants — CFDA 16.588

VAWA formula obligations at $846,545,806.38

USAspending.gov records $846,545,806.38 in obligations under CFDA 16.588. Two hundred ninety awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $2,919,124 per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical subaward to a local program and not a cost per survivor. Other Office on Violence Against Women listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $846,545,806.38.

The assistance-listing title is VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN FORMULA GRANTS. CFDA 16.588 is the identifier. Combining 16.588 with discretionary VAWA or victim-compensation codes would invent a combined violence-against-women total this packet does not contain. Read the $846,545,806.38 as the obligation book tagged 16.588 only.

56 recipients matching 56 jurisdictions

Fifty-six recipients share 290 awards, or about 5.2 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $846,545,806.38 evenly would assign about $15.1 million per recipient. That density is a multi-year formula pattern: a small named-administrator headcount carrying several assistance rows over time. The packet does not list the 56.

Fifty-six jurisdictions in the geographic count match the 56-recipient headcount. That 1:1 pairing is the tell for a listing that codes to states, the District of Columbia, and territories rather than to thousands of local victim-service providers. Place-of-performance amounts still follow formula allocations, not equal shares. Shelter inventories live elsewhere.

Award rows are not a victim-services census

Among Justice listings, 16.588 is a formula file: 290 awards against 56 recipients. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of VAWA programs” and a worse proxy for people served. Recipients (56) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (290) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report hotline calls, protection orders, or bed nights. Citing 290 as shelters would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions. The $846,545,806.38 stock is the obligation figure from USAspending.gov.

Obligations versus VAWA outlays

The $846,545,806.38 is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Violence Against Women Formula Grants awards — are not in the packet. A formula file can show a large obligation stock while state administrators draw and subaward on a later calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Use CFDA 16.588 to size this formula listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a crime-victim dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 16.588.

What the 16.588 tables omit

The program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a shelter directory, not a prosecution docket, and not a prevalence survey. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $846,545,806.38. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 290 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 56 jurisdictions is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares of victim-services funding. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid to state STOP administrators or their subrecipients.

Where the 16.588 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 16.588 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other Justice listings. For 16.588 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 16.588’s 290 awards spread $846,545,806.38 across 56 recipients and 56 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 5.2 award records per recipient is the density story. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

A researcher comparing 16.588 with other Office on Violence Against Women codes should keep CFDA numbers separate. The 56-recipient headcount matching 56 jurisdictions is the STOP-formula fingerprint on this extract, not a local-shelter directory. Quote $846,545,806.38 as the USAspending obligation stock for Violence Against Women Formula Grants only. About 5.2 award records per recipient is the density story on 290 awards. Victim counts, bed nights, and prosecutions remain outside the packet. Outlays are a separate column.

Questions

How much is obligated for Violence Against Women Formula Grants?

USAspending.gov records $846,545,806.38 in obligations for CFDA 16.588. SpendingVault indexes 290 awards, 56 recipients, and 56 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a victim count. CFDA 16.588’s $846,545,806.38 is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 16.588 carry?

The listing shows 290 awards against 56 recipients, or about 5.2 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $2,919,124 per award. Award count is not a count of shelters or prosecutions. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 16.588 awards?

The extract lists 56 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 16.588, not a census of local victim-service providers. Geographic coding covers 56 jurisdictions, matching the recipient headcount. The packet does not name the 56. The packet reports obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.

Is $846,545,806.38 already paid under VAWA formula grants?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 16.588’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or people served. The $846,545,806.38 on 290 awards is the obligation figure. The packet reports obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.