Coronavirus Relief Fund — CFDA 21.019

Forty-two awards carrying $20.3 billion

USAspending.gov records $20,302,031,343.44 in obligations under CFDA 21.019. Forty-two awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $483 million per award — the highest dollars-per-award ratio in this set of thirty packets. A relief fund that posts large transfers to a short list of governments will look like this in USAspending: few rows, large amounts.

The assistance-listing title is CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND. CFDA 21.019 is the identifier. Other pandemic-era listings, including emergency rental assistance, are separate CFDA numbers and are not included in the $20.3 billion.

Thirty-three recipients and a 23-state field

Thirty-three recipients share 42 awards, or about 1.3 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $20.3 billion evenly would assign about $615 million per recipient. The packet does not name the 33. The near one-to-one award-to-recipient ratio is the opposite of a research CFDA with a dozen awards per university.

Twenty-three states in the geographic count is a tight coding relative to most assistance listings in this batch. That does not, by itself, reconstruct the statutory allocation formula. It reports how many state labels appear on 21.019 awards in this extract. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

A relief-fund CFDA is still a stock

The title names a coronavirus relief fund. The four facts remain a stock: $20.3 billion, 42 awards, 33 recipients, 23 states. They do not date individual public-health waves, name eligible uses, or split dollars by expenditure category. Award modifications can continue after the period that prompted the original transfer.

The packet does not include a fiscal year. Readers looking for a year-by-year relief series will not find it in these four numbers. The program table is the place to inspect award dates if the extract stored them.

Obligations versus amounts drawn by governments

The $20.3 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash drawn by the 33 recipients — are not in the packet. A large relief transfer can be fully obligated while sub-state spending continues. Deobligations of unused amounts would reduce the stock; this page does not estimate unused balances.

Use CFDA 21.019 to size the Coronavirus Relief Fund in the assistance file. Do not add other pandemic CFDAs into the $20.3 billion. That sum is 21.019 only.

Where to open 21.019

The Coronavirus Relief Fund program page overlays these aggregates. The all-programs index ranks 21.019 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency totals that may include this CFDA among other listings. For 21.019 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 21.019’s $20,302,031,343.44 on 42 awards and 33 recipients is a concentrated transfer file: about $483 million per award, 23 states in the geographic count, sourced from USAspending.gov. That is the opposite of a small-grant marketplace. The 23-state count is how many labels appear on awards in this extract, not a reconstructed statutory roster of every government that ever received related relief. Other pandemic listings are separate CFDA rows.

Eligible-use categories, sub-state spending, and outlays drawn by the 33 recipients are outside the packet. The Coronavirus Relief Fund program page overlays 21.019. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Concentration: few awards, large dollars

The Coronavirus Relief Fund, CFDA 21.019, is the most concentrated high-dollar listing in this batch on a dollars-per-award basis: $20,302,031,343.44 in obligations, 42 awards, 33 recipients, 23 states, per USAspending.gov. About $483 million per award and about $615 million per recipient on simple averages are the arithmetic of large transfers to a short list of governments. Forty-two rows is not a small-grant marketplace.

Thirty-three recipients against 42 awards is about 1.3 records per organization — nearly one award per named recipient. Twenty-three in the geographic count is a tight coding relative to most assistance listings here. That count is how many state labels appear on 21.019 awards in this extract, not a complete statutory roster reconstructed from memory. The program table is the place to see which labels are stored.

Other pandemic-era listings are separate CFDA numbers and are not included in the $20.3 billion. Outlays drawn by the 33 recipients are not in the packet. The program page overlays 21.019; the programs index ranks it; agency pages roll up awarding agencies. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for the Coronavirus Relief Fund?

USAspending.gov records $20,302,031,343.44 in obligations for CFDA 21.019. SpendingVault indexes 42 awards, 33 recipients, and 23 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay. A simple average is about $483 million per award. CFDA 21.019’s $20.3 billion on 42 awards, 33 recipients, and 23 states is the USAspending obligation stock.

Why are there only 42 awards on such a large listing?

CFDA 21.019 posts 42 awards against $20.3 billion. Relief-fund transfers to a short list of governments appear as a few large assistance records rather than thousands of small grants. Recipient count is 33, so most recipients hold a single award record in this extract.

Does 23 states mean the fund skipped the rest of the country?

The USAspending geographic count for CFDA 21.019 is 23. That is how many state labels appear on awards in this extract, not a complete statutory roster of every government that ever received related relief. Dollar-by-state amounts are on the program table. The packet does not list the 23 labels.

Is $20.3 billion already spent by recipients?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 21.019’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, eligible-use categories, or remaining balances. CFDA 21.019’s $20.3 billion on 42 awards, 33 recipients, and 23 states is the USAspending obligation stock.