Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds — CFDA 21.027

What $93.97 billion on 185 awards means

Assistance listing 21.027 is titled CORONAVIRUS STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $93,970,930,331.70. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $93,970,930,331.70 as cash already spent by cities and states mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

185 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $93,970,930,331.70 by 185 produces a mean near $508 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical local project and not a per-resident allocation. Fiscal Recovery dollars often sit on large recipient-government actions, which is why 185 records can carry $93,970,930,331.70.

The 149 recipients in the extract are organizational recipients stored on those award rows, not a count of households. 49 states appear in the place-of-performance coding. None of those volume stats converts the dollar total into a recovery scorecard.

149 recipients and 49 states

CFDA 21.027 lists 149 recipients and 49 states against 185 awards. Recipient count is not unique residents. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing. A state or metro government can appear on more than one award; 149 is not a headcount of mayors. The 49-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, not a claim that two states never received Fiscal Recovery Funds in other files.

Because 185 awards are close to 149 recipients, many rows look like one-to-one government awards rather than a high-volume project file. Extra modifications can still lift award volume while $93,970,930,331.70 barely moves. The Fiscal Recovery hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another.

Obligations versus Treasury outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $93,970,930,331.70 figure for CFDA 21.027 can include commitments that will disburse later. Treasury SLFRF expenditure reports and a single fiscal year’s pandemic appropriation are different publications. This page does not translate the obligation total into those series.

If a number you expected is missing, the usual cause is a different reporting concept. Start from the obligation definition, then open the 21.027 program page. Do not stretch 185 awards or 149 recipients to cover every pandemic dollar that touches a local budget.

What the 21.027 tables omit

The Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a project-by-project local ledger, not a revenue-replacement model, and not an employment series. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $93,970,930,331.70. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 185 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 49 states is a coding field. A statewide recipient coded to one cell can dominate geography while sub-awards sit in many localities. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 21.027

A complete citation is $93,970,930,331.70 in obligations for CFDA 21.027, covering 185 awards, 149 recipients, and 49 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is recipient concentration rather than dollars, lead with 149 recipients and 185 awards, then the dollar total.

Start with the Fiscal Recovery Funds program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is spending-plan advice.

A worked reading of the 21.027 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $93,970,930,331.70, 185 awards, 149 recipients, and 49 states under CFDA 21.027. The mean near $508 million is a quotient from a small award count, not a typical local project. If a later USAspending.gov file adds a few large government actions, dollars can jump while 149 recipients barely move. If modifications proliferate, 185 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $93,970,930,331.70.

Nothing in the extract splits revenue replacement from water-and-sewer projects from premium pay. Those cuts live in Treasury SLFRF publications. Treat CFDA 21.027 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the Fiscal Recovery Funds program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 185 awards and 149 recipients next to the dollars so the near one-to-one structure is visible.

Questions

How much is obligated under Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $93,970,930,331.70 in obligations for CFDA 21.027. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a local project census. The same extract lists 185 awards, 149 recipients, and 49 states.

Why does CFDA 21.027 have only 185 awards?

The indexed award count is 185. Fiscal Recovery dollars often sit on a relatively small number of large government-recipient actions, which is why $93,970,930,331.70 can coexist with 185 records and 149 organizational recipients. The 185 figure is a file statistic, not a count of local projects.

Does the Fiscal Recovery total include money already spent by cities?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $93,970,930,331.70 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 185-award count is a record tally, not a count of local expenditures posted in Treasury reports. Cite CFDA 21.027 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 21.027?

The extract codes 49 states for Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every locality. Those rows still sit under the $93,970,930,331.70 obligation total and the 149-recipient count.