Biological Sciences — CFDA 47.074

Biological-sciences obligations at $3.66 billion

USAspending.gov records $3,660,743,871 in obligations under CFDA 47.074. Three thousand three hundred fifty-nine awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $1.09 million per award — typical of multi-year research grants rather than state block grants. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical laboratory budget.

The assistance-listing title is BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. CFDA 47.074 is the identifier. Engineering, geosciences, and other science listings are separate CFDA numbers and are not mixed into the $3.66 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined science total this packet does not contain.

560 recipients, thousands of award rows

Five hundred sixty recipients share 3,359 awards, or about 6.0 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $3.66 billion evenly would assign about $6.5 million per recipient. That pattern matches a research portfolio in which institutions hold multiple awards. The packet does not list the 560. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of principal investigators.

Fifty-three states in the geographic count show nationwide coding in the USAspending state field. Research dollars still concentrate at large biology campuses and field stations. The state count does not flatten those differences. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a specimen count

Among science listings, 47.074 is a dense file: 3,359 rows against 560 recipients. Competing renewals and supplements can inflate award count relative to unique projects. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of biology studies.” Recipients (560) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (3,359) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report publication counts, specimen inventories, or student enrollments. Citing 3,359 as experiments or papers would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus research outlays

The $3.66 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against biological-sciences awards — are not in the packet. A laboratory can show a large obligation stock while draws follow a multi-year grant calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 47.074 to size the Biological Sciences listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a scientific-progress scorecard. Publications and datasets live in other series. This page reports the obligation book tagged 47.074.

What the 47.074 tables omit

The Biological Sciences hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a publication index, not a specimen archive, and not a field-site catalog. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $3,660,743,871. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 3,359 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 53 states is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already spent on instruments or fieldwork.

Where the 47.074 table lives

The Biological Sciences program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 47.074 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other science listings. For 47.074 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 47.074’s 3,359 awards spread $3,660,743,871 across 560 recipients and 53 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 6.0 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

CFDA 47.074 is indexed at $3,660,743,871 in obligations, 3,359 awards, 560 recipients, and 53 states on USAspending.gov. Biological Sciences should be cited on that CFDA row alone. The $3.66 billion figure sizes the listing in the assistance file. It does not convert obligations into outlays, and it does not convert award count into a service, patient, student, or project census.

Readers who need the overlay tables should start on the program page for CFDA 47.074, then rank the listing on the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings; they do not replace the $3,660,743,871 obligation stock. Keep the four facts together when quoting Biological Sciences: dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov, award count as a stored-row count, recipient count as the organizational headcount (including 0 when the extract stores none), and the state figure as a geographic coding count.

Questions

How much is obligated for Biological Sciences?

USAspending.gov records $3,660,743,871 in obligations for CFDA 47.074. SpendingVault indexes 3,359 awards, 560 recipients, and 53 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a study count. CFDA 47.074’s $3.66 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 47.074 carry?

The listing shows 3,359 awards against 560 recipients, or about 6.0 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $1.09 million per award. Award count is not a publication or specimen count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive Biological Sciences awards?

The extract lists 560 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 47.074. Geographic coding covers 53 states. The packet does not name the 560 or publish scientific output. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. CFDA 47.074’s $3.66 billion on 3,359 awards, with 560 recipients and 53 states in this aggregate, is the USAspending obligation stock.

Is $3.66 billion already spent on biological sciences?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 47.074’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or research results. The $3.66 billion on 3,359 awards is the obligation figure.