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Contributions to International Organizations-CIO — CFDA 19.790

$2.82 billion in federal obligations is indexed on USAspending.gov for Contributions to International Organizations-CIO (CFDA 19.790). The listing carries 80 awards, 20 recipients, and a 0-state geographic count. Those dollars are assistance obligations, not outlays and not a count of treaties, votes, or member-state assessments paid by other countries. A zero state count is the signature of this file: the awards sit outside the domestic place-of-performance map.

Key figures

  • CFDA 19.790 shows $2.82 billion in USAspending obligations for Contributions to International Organizations-CIO.
  • The listing covers 80 awards and 20 recipients.
  • The USAspending geographic count is 0 states.
  • Totals are obligations, not outlays or treaty counts.

CIO contribution obligations at $2.82 billion

USAspending.gov records $2,817,710,049.69 in obligations under CFDA 19.790. Eighty awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $35.2 million per award — large even among foreign-affairs listings and consistent with assessed or voluntary contributions booked as assistance rows. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical annual dues invoice for any one body.

The assistance-listing title is CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS- CIO. CFDA 19.790 is the identifier. Other State Department contribution listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $2.82 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined international-organization total this packet does not contain.

20 recipients and a zero-state map

Twenty recipients share 80 awards, or 4.0 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $2.82 billion evenly would assign about $140.9 million per recipient. That pattern is a short roster of international bodies and related payees, not a nationwide grant competition. The packet does not list the 20. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of member states or programs those bodies run.

Zero states in the geographic count means the USAspending state field is empty for this extract. That is expected for overseas-coded contributions. It is not evidence that the $2.82 billion was never obligated. Place-of-performance, if shown at all, will not look like a 50-state choropleth.

Award count is not a membership or treaty count

Among foreign-affairs listings, 19.790 is a low-row, high-dollar file: 80 rows against 20 recipients. Multi-year contributions and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique organizations. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of international organizations funded.” Recipients (20) tell you how many named payees sit on the extract; awards (80) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report assessed scales, arrears, or program outputs. Citing 80 as treaties or votes would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, and a zero state count.

Obligations versus contribution outlays

The $2.82 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid to international organizations — are not in the packet. A contribution can show a large obligation stock while payment follows a later calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 19.790 to size this CIO listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a United Nations budget or a full State Department contributions dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 19.790.

What the 19.790 tables omit

The Contributions to International Organizations-CIO hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a treaty register, not an assessed-dues ledger for other member states, and not a program-results report. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $2,817,710,049.69. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 80 award rows.

A zero-state coding field is not a data error by itself. Read the program page before treating missing domestic geography as missing money. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already transferred.

Where the 19.790 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 19.790 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other foreign-affairs listings. For 19.790 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 19.790’s 80 awards spread $2,817,710,049.69 across 20 recipients and 0 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. Four award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. Read 19.790 as an overseas contribution book: 20 payees, empty domestic geography, and $35.2 million averages that describe international-organization rows rather than a 50-state grant competition.

Questions

How much is obligated for contributions to international organizations under CFDA 19.790?
USAspending.gov records $2,817,710,049.69 in obligations for CFDA 19.790. SpendingVault indexes 80 awards, 20 recipients, and 0 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a treaty count. CFDA 19.790’s $2.82 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.
How many awards does CFDA 19.790 carry?
The listing shows 80 awards against 20 recipients, or 4.0 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $35.2 million per award. Award count is not a membership or treaty count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.
Why does CFDA 19.790 show zero states?
The extract lists 20 recipients and a 0-state geographic count. Overseas-coded contributions often leave the USAspending state field empty. That does not mean the $2.82 billion is missing. The packet does not name the 20 organizations.
Is $2.82 billion already paid to international organizations?
Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 19.790’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash transferred, arrears, or remaining balances. The $2.82 billion on 80 awards is the obligation figure.

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