Office of Science Financial Assistance Program — CFDA 81.049

4,936 awards under a $12.47 billion book

Assistance listing 81.049 is titled OFFICE OF SCIENCE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $12,472,159,646.33. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not a laboratory invoice already paid.

4,936 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $12,472,159,646.33 by 4,936 produces a mean near $2.53 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical user-facility fee and not a per-paper research cost. Many research actions can add to $12,472,159,646.33 without any single row matching a national-lab construction line.

1,051 organizational recipients appear on those rows. 53 states are coded for place of performance. Neither count converts the obligation total into a headcount of scientists.

1,051 recipients and 53 states

CFDA 81.049 lists 1,051 recipients against 4,936 awards. Recipient count is not unique investigators. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores. One university or laboratory can hold many awards, which is why 4,936 records can sit on 1,051 recipients.

Fifty-three states is a coded-jurisdiction span. Extra modifications can lift the 4,936-award count while dollars stay near $12,472,159,646.33. The science-assistance hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another.

Obligations versus science outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $12,472,159,646.33 figure for CFDA 81.049 can include multi-year commitments that will disburse later. A separate office budget justification or a facility construction report is a different publication. 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 81.049 program page. Do not stretch 4,936 awards to cover every science dollar tagged under another listing.

What the 81.049 tables omit

The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a publication list, not a user-facility schedule, and not a ranking of scientific impact. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $12,472,159,646.33.

Place-of-performance on 53 states is a coding field. A multi-institution award coded to one cell can dominate geography while work occurs in several locations. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 81.049

A complete citation is $12,472,159,646.33 in obligations for CFDA 81.049, covering 4,936 awards, 1,051 recipients, and 53 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is award volume rather than dollars, lead with 4,936 awards, then the dollar total.

Start with the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total.

A worked reading of the 81.049 extract

Start from the four packet facts on CFDA 81.049: $12,472,159,646.33 in obligations, 4,936 awards, 1,051 recipients, and 53 states. The mean near $2.53 million per award is a quotient from those two packet totals, not a typical unit cost and not a household or client rate. If a later USAspending.gov file adds a few large actions, dollars can jump while 1,051 recipients barely move. If modifications proliferate, 4,936 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $12,472,159,646.33.

Nothing in the extract splits OFFICE OF SCIENCE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM into subaccounts, fiscal years, or outlay versus obligation series beyond the stored totals. Those cuts live in other publications. Treat CFDA 81.049 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 4,936 awards and 1,051 recipients next to the dollars so the record count is visible beside $12,472,159,646.33. Name the series as obligations, not outlays, every time the figure is reused. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total.

A complete working citation for this listing is $12,472,159,646.33 in USAspending.gov obligations for CFDA 81.049, covering 4,936 awards, 1,051 recipients, and 53 states, indexed on SpendingVault. Do not convert 4,936 awards into a publication count, or 1,051 recipients into a scientist roster. The 53-state field is place-of-performance coding in the assistance extract. Read the OFFICE OF SCIENCE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM hub before inferring a geographic story from the dollar total alone. If a number you expected is missing from $12,472,159,646.33, the usual cause is a different reporting concept rather than a gap in the 4,936 award rows.

Questions

How much is obligated under Office of Science financial assistance?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $12,472,159,646.33 in obligations for CFDA 81.049. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of papers. The same extract lists 4,936 awards, 1,051 recipients, and 53 states.

How many awards does CFDA 81.049 have?

The indexed award count is 4,936. Those records carry $12,472,159,646.33 in obligations. The 4,936 figure is a file statistic, not a count of investigators. 1,051 organizational recipients are stored on those rows. The program hub on SpendingVault holds the award rows behind those totals. Keep the series labeled as obligations from USAspending.gov assistance awards; do not swap in an outlay figure from another report.

Is the $12.47 billion already spent in labs?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $12,472,159,646.33 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. Cite CFDA 81.049 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series. The program hub on SpendingVault holds the award rows behind those totals. Keep the series labeled as obligations from USAspending.gov assistance awards; do not swap in an outlay figure from another report.

How many states appear on CFDA 81.049?

The extract codes 53 states for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every laboratory. Those rows still sit under the $12,472,159,646.33 obligation total and the 1,051-recipient count.