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NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships — CFDA 47.084

$2.10 billion in federal obligations is indexed on USAspending.gov for NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084). The listing carries 2,587 awards, 1,543 recipients, and a 55-jurisdiction geographic count. Those dollars are assistance obligations, not outlays and not a count of startups, patents, or regional innovation hubs. One thousand five hundred forty-three recipients against 2,587 awards is a broad NSF partnership file: many organizations, modest average awards, nationwide coding.

Key figures

  • CFDA 47.084 shows $2.10 billion in USAspending obligations for NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships.
  • The listing covers 2,587 awards and 1,543 recipients.
  • Awards are coded to 55 jurisdictions in the USAspending geographic count.
  • Totals are obligations, not outlays or patent counts.

NSF TIP obligations at $2.10 billion

USAspending.gov records $2,100,199,524 in obligations under CFDA 47.084. Two thousand five hundred eighty-seven awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $812,000 per award — in the range of NSF project and partnership awards rather than billion-dollar procurement. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical startup valuation or a per-patent cost.

The assistance-listing title is NSF TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION, AND PARTNERSHIPS. CFDA 47.084 is the identifier. Other NSF directorate listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $2.10 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined NSF total this packet does not contain.

1,543 recipients across 55 jurisdictions

One thousand five hundred forty-three recipients share 2,587 awards, or about 1.7 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $2.10 billion evenly would assign about $1.36 million per recipient. That pattern is a large roster of universities, firms, and partners with one or two rows each. The packet does not list the 1,543. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of startups, patents, or researchers.

Fifty-five jurisdictions in the geographic count cover states, territories, and additional coded entities in the USAspending state field. Partnership dollars still concentrate where awarded organizations sit. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a startup or patent count

Among NSF listings, 47.084 is a high-row file: 2,587 awards against 1,543 recipients. Multi-year awards and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique partnerships. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of innovation projects.” Recipients (1,543) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (2,587) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report patents, company formations, or jobs. Citing 2,587 as startups would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions.

Obligations versus NSF outlays

The $2.10 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against TIP awards — are not in the packet. A performer can show a large obligation stock while work follows a multi-year calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 47.084 to size this NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a startup dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 47.084.

What the 47.084 tables omit

The NSF TIP hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a patent index, not a company registry, and not a regional-hub scorecard. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $2,100,199,524. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 2,587 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 55 jurisdictions 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 equipment or staff.

Where the 47.084 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 47.084 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other NSF listings. For 47.084 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 47.084’s 2,587 awards spread $2,100,199,524 across 1,543 recipients and 55 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 1.7 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. Read 47.084 as an NSF partnership book: 1,543 organizations, 2,587 awards, 55 jurisdictions, and about $812,000 averages that describe project awards rather than procurement. The $2.10 billion remains an obligation stock on USAspending.gov.

Questions

How much is obligated for NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships?
USAspending.gov records $2,100,199,524 in obligations for CFDA 47.084. SpendingVault indexes 2,587 awards, 1,543 recipients, and 55 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a patent count. CFDA 47.084’s $2.10 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.
How many awards does CFDA 47.084 carry?
The listing shows 2,587 awards against 1,543 recipients, or about 1.7 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $812,000 per award. Award count is not a startup or patent count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.
How many organizations receive 47.084 awards?
The extract lists 1,543 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 47.084. Geographic coding covers 55 jurisdictions. The packet does not name the 1,543 or publish patent data. Recipient count is the organizational headcount.
Is $2.10 billion already spent on NSF TIP awards?
Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 47.084’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or patents filed. The $2.10 billion on 2,587 awards is the obligation figure.

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