Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs — Citizen Exchanges — CFDA 19.415

Citizen-exchange obligations at $722,816,978.17

USAspending.gov records $722,816,978.17 in obligations under CFDA 19.415. Two hundred seventy-one awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $2,667,221 per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical visitor-program budget and not a cost per participant. Other Department of State professional-exchange listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $722,816,978.17.

The assistance-listing title is PROFESSIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS - CITIZEN EXCHANGES. CFDA 19.415 is the identifier. Combining 19.415 with graduate academic-exchange or IVLP-adjacent codes would invent a combined exchange total this packet does not contain. Read the $722,816,978.17 as the obligation book tagged 19.415 only.

68 recipients and a 0-state map

Sixty-eight recipients share 271 awards, or about 4.0 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $722,816,978.17 evenly would assign about $10.6 million per recipient. That density is a cooperating-NGO pattern: a modest named-organization headcount carrying several assistance rows. The packet does not list the 68.

Zero jurisdictions in the geographic count means the USAspending state field is empty on this extract. Citizen exchanges are often coded without a domestic state place of performance. Do not treat 0 as “no spending.” The $722,816,978.17 still sits on 271 awards. Recipient count is organizational, not a census of visitors.

Award rows are not a visitor census

Among State listings, 19.415 is a mid-row exchange file: 271 awards against 68 recipients. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of exchange programs” and a worse proxy for people hosted. Recipients (68) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (271) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report delegations, cultural events, or alumni counts. Citing 271 as visitors would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions. The $722,816,978.17 stock is the obligation figure from USAspending.gov.

Obligations versus citizen-exchange outlays

The $722,816,978.17 is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges awards — are not in the packet. An exchange file can show a large obligation stock while implementing partners draw against cohort years. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Use CFDA 19.415 to size this citizen-exchange listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a visa dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 19.415.

What the 19.415 tables omit

The program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a visitor roster, not a cultural-calendar, and not a country-by-country placement table. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $722,816,978.17. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 271 award rows.

A 0-jurisdiction geographic count is a coding result, not a missing-data error on the dollar total. Read the program page before treating empty state cells as empty spending. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid to implementing partners.

Where the 19.415 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 19.415 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other State listings. For 19.415 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 19.415’s 271 awards spread $722,816,978.17 across 68 recipients and 0 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 4.0 award records per recipient is the density story. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

A researcher comparing 19.415 with graduate academic-exchange codes should keep CFDA numbers separate. The 68-recipient headcount on 271 awards sits on a 0-jurisdiction map: empty U.S. state cells, not empty spending. Quote $722,816,978.17 as the USAspending obligation stock for Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges only. About 4.0 award records per recipient is the density story. Visitor counts and delegation sizes remain outside the packet. Outlays are a separate column.

Questions

How much is obligated for citizen exchange programs?

USAspending.gov records $722,816,978.17 in obligations for CFDA 19.415. SpendingVault indexes 271 awards, 68 recipients, and 0 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a visitor count. CFDA 19.415’s $722,816,978.17 is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 19.415 carry?

The listing shows 271 awards against 68 recipients, or about 4.0 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $2,667,221 per award. Award count is not a count of visitors or cultural events. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

Why does 19.415 show 0 states?

The extract lists 0 jurisdictions in the USAspending geographic count. Citizen exchanges are often coded without a U.S. state place of performance. The packet still records 68 recipients and $722,816,978.17 in obligations. Empty state cells are not a zero-dollar result.

Is $722,816,978.17 already paid for citizen exchanges?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 19.415’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or visitors hosted. The $722,816,978.17 on 271 awards is the obligation figure. The packet reports obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.