Higher Education Institutional Aid — CFDA 84.031

Institutional-aid obligations at $6.05 billion

USAspending.gov records $6,049,679,850.91 in obligations under CFDA 84.031. One thousand six hundred thirty-three awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $3.70 million per award — consistent with institutional development grants rather than student-level aid rows. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical campus project budget.

The assistance-listing title is HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONAL AID. CFDA 84.031 is the identifier. Other higher-education listings, if tagged under other CFDA numbers, are not included in the $6.05 billion. Pell or other student-aid rows live on their own codes if they appear in the file.

USAspending.gov records the $6,049,679,850.91 obligation stock for CFDA 84.031 together with 1,633 awards, 917 recipients, and 55 states. Keep institutional aid on 84.031 when quoting these four facts. Outlays remain a separate column.

Nine hundred seventeen recipients

Nine hundred seventeen recipients share 1,633 awards, or about 1.8 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $6.05 billion evenly would assign about $6.6 million per recipient. Colleges and related institutions are the unit this kind of listing usually names; the packet does not list the 917. Recipient count is the better organizational headcount than award count.

Fifty-five states in the geographic count show nationwide coding in the USAspending state field, including territories in the coded-jurisdiction set. Institutional-aid dollars still concentrate where eligible campuses and award sizes are large. The state count does not flatten those differences. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a campus count

Among education listings, 84.031 is a mid-density file: 1,633 rows against 917 recipients. Multi-year awards and modifications can move award count without changing the set of campuses. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of institutions helped.” Recipients (917) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (1,633) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report enrollment, graduation rates, or building inventories. Citing 1,633 as campuses or students would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus campus cash

The $6.05 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against institutional-aid awards — are not in the packet. A campus 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 84.031 to size the Higher Education Institutional Aid listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a student-aid dashboard. Student-level series live on other codes. This page reports the obligation book tagged 84.031.

What the 84.031 tables omit

The Higher Education Institutional Aid hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a student roster, not a campus directory, and not an endowment report. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $6,049,679,850.91. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 1,633 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 55 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 facilities or instruction.

Where the institutional-aid table lives

The Higher Education Institutional Aid program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 84.031 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other education listings. For 84.031 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 84.031’s 1,633 awards spread $6,049,679,850.91 across 917 recipients and 55 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About $3.70 million per award is the concentration story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. The four-fact citation for CFDA 84.031 is the obligation stock on this extract, together with the award, recipient, and state counts already named above. Do not convert those figures into outlays, and do not treat award count as a service census.

Questions

How much is obligated for Higher Education Institutional Aid?

USAspending.gov records $6,049,679,850.91 in obligations for CFDA 84.031. SpendingVault indexes 1,633 awards, 917 recipients, and 55 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a student count. CFDA 84.031’s $6.05 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 84.031 carry?

The listing shows 1,633 awards against 917 recipients. A simple average is about $3.70 million per award. Award count is not a campus or student count. Recipient dollars are on the program page. USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault are the source for this obligation stock.

How many institutions appear as recipients?

The extract lists 917 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 84.031. Geographic coding covers 55 states. The packet does not name the 917 or publish enrollment. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault are the source for this obligation stock.

Is $6.05 billion already spent on institutional aid?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 84.031’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or campus projects completed. The $6.05 billion on 1,633 awards is the obligation figure.