Federal Transit Formula Grants — CFDA 20.507

The $33.8 billion assistance total

USAspending.gov records $33,770,273,181.03 in obligations under CFDA 20.507. Two thousand six hundred awards produce that stock. On a simple average, each award is associated with about $13.0 million. Transit formula assistance often posts large, multi-year grant records, so a high dollars-per-award ratio is expected relative to a benefits CFDA with hundreds of thousands of small rows.

Federal Transit Formula Grants is the assistance-listing title. CFDA 20.507 is the identifier. Searchers using a statutory section nickname will only see those awards here if USAspending tagged them 20.507. This page does not merge other transit CFDA numbers into the $33.8 billion.

Six hundred thirty-two recipients, not one national grantee

The 632 recipients are the organizational dimension in this extract. Relative to 2,600 awards, that is about four awards per recipient on average, and about $53.4 million in obligations per recipient on a simple split of the $33.8 billion. Both ratios are arithmetic, not a claim that every transit agency received the same package.

Formula grant programs can still be uneven in the award file: large urban reporters may hold many modifications of the same underlying grant, which inflates award count without adding new recipients. The packet does not break out urbanized versus rural awards. The program page’s recipient table is the place to see which names actually appear.

Fifty-three states in the geographic field

Awards under 20.507 are coded to 53 states in the USAspending geographic count. That is a broad national spread for a transit listing, but it is not a per-capita ranking and not proof that every small city received formula funds. State labels in assistance data can include the District of Columbia and territories; the packet does not enumerate them.

Place-of-performance for transit grants often follows the transit agency’s headquarters or service area as coded by the awarding agency. Two neighboring states can show very different dollar amounts because of how agencies file, not because the CFDA title changed.

Obligations versus buses bought

An obligation on CFDA 20.507 is the recorded federal commitment on an assistance award. It is not a count of vehicles delivered, miles operated, or local match posted. Outlays would show cash drawn against those awards; they are not in this packet. A grant can be fully obligated while construction or vehicle delivery is still underway.

Readers comparing this listing to a transit agency’s capital plan should treat $33.8 billion as the USAspending assistance total for 20.507, not as that agency’s local budget. Modifications can raise or lower the stock after the original award date.

How to open CFDA 20.507 on SpendingVault

The Federal Transit Formula Grants program page lists the same four aggregates used here: $33.8 billion, 2,600 awards, 632 recipients, 53 states. The all-programs index puts 20.507 beside other assistance listings. Agency pages roll up awarding-agency spending that may include this CFDA among others. Use the program page when the question is specifically formula-transit assistance tagged 20.507.

Formula in the title, awards in the table

Federal Transit Formula Grants is the assistance-listing name. The USAspending table is still 2,600 award records, 632 recipients, 53 states, and $33,770,273,181.03 in obligations. Formula language in a CFDA title does not automatically mean SpendingVault computed the statutory shares. This page reports the assistance-award stock tagged 20.507. A transit planner who needs apportionment factors has to use the formula documentation, not these four facts alone.

Six hundred thirty-two recipients against 2,600 awards is a mid-density roster: more organizations than a state-entitlement CFDA with seventy recipients, fewer than a research CFDA with nine hundred. Transit agencies, state departments, and other eligible grantees can all appear. The packet does not classify them. Average dollars per recipient, about $53.4 million if the $33.8 billion were split evenly, is a ratio for scale, not a typical grant.

When a local transit budget disagrees with USAspending, check three filters: CFDA 20.507 only, obligations rather than outlays, and whether modifications were included in the 2,600-award count. Those filters remove most false conflicts. The program page is the overlay; the programs index ranks 20.507 by size; agency pages roll up awarding agencies. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for Federal Transit Formula Grants?

USAspending.gov records $33,770,273,181.03 in obligations for CFDA 20.507. SpendingVault indexes 2,600 awards, 632 recipients, and 53 states against that total. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a vehicle-delivery count. CFDA 20.507’s $33.8 billion, 2,600 awards, and 632 recipients are the USAspending obligation stock.

How many transit agencies appear as recipients on CFDA 20.507?

The extract lists 632 recipients. That is the organizational count in this USAspending assistance aggregate, not a directory of every transit operator in the country. Award count is 2,600, so many recipients hold more than one award record. Names and dollars by recipient are on the program page.

Does 53 states mean equal formula shares?

No. Fifty-three states appear in the geographic count. That only reports how many state labels are attached to 20.507 awards. It does not apportion the $33.8 billion equally and does not publish the statutory formula. Check the program table for place-of-performance amounts.

Is the $33.8 billion already spent on transit projects?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 20.507’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. Cash drawn, local match, and project completion are outside this packet. Treat the headline as an assistance-award sum, not as a construction closeout.