TRIO Talent Search — CFDA 84.044

Talent Search dollars on 625 award records

Assistance listing 84.044 is titled TRIO TALENT SEARCH in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $1,064,796,984.84. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $1.06B as cash already spent on college-prep services mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

625 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $1,064,796,984.84 by 625 produces a mean near $1.70 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical project budget and not a cost per student. Talent Search dollars often sit on multi-year grantee actions, which is why 625 records can carry $1.06B without implying 625 separate student cohorts.

410 recipients across 54 states

CFDA 84.044 lists 410 recipients and 54 states against 625 awards. Recipient count is not unique students. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing. A college or nonprofit can appear on more than one award; 410 is not a headcount of Talent Search sites. The 54-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, not a map of every high school served.

625 awards against 410 recipients averages about 1.5 award records per recipient. Extra modifications can lift the 625 tally without moving $1,064,796,984.84 much, while a few large commitments can do the reverse. The Talent Search hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another.

Obligations versus TRIO outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $1,064,796,984.84 figure for CFDA 84.044 can include multi-year grant commitments that will disburse later. An annual performance report, a student-served total, and a Treasury outlay series 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 84.044 program page. Do not stretch 625 awards or 410 recipients to cover every TRIO dollar that touches college access.

What the 84.044 tables omit

The TRIO Talent Search hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a student roster, not a FAFSA-completion file, and not a high-school-to-college match table. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,064,796,984.84. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 625 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 54 states is a coding field. A grantee coded to one cell can dominate geography while participants live in many counties. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 84.044

A complete citation is $1,064,796,984.84 in obligations for CFDA 84.044, covering 625 awards, 410 recipients, and 54 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is grantee volume rather than dollars, lead with 410 recipients and 625 awards, then the $1.06B total.

Start with the TRIO Talent Search program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is admissions or counseling advice.

A worked reading of the 84.044 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $1,064,796,984.84, 625 awards, 410 recipients, and 54 states under CFDA 84.044. The mean near $1.70 million is a quotient from the award count, not a typical Talent Search grant. If a later USAspending.gov file adds large continuation actions, dollars can jump while 410 recipients barely move. If modifications proliferate, 625 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $1.06B.

Nothing in the extract splits Talent Search from other TRIO listings, or pre-college advising from other services. Those cuts live outside this packet. Treat CFDA 84.044 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 625 awards and 410 recipients next to the dollars so grantee volume is visible.

Questions

How much is obligated under TRIO Talent Search?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $1,064,796,984.84 in obligations for CFDA 84.044, TRIO Talent Search. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of students served. The same extract lists 625 awards, 410 recipients, and 54 states.

How many Talent Search grantees are in the USAspending extract?

The indexed recipient count is 410 against 625 awards. That is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores, not a census of students or high schools. The $1,064,796,984.84 obligation total still sits on those 625 award rows. Recipient count is not unique participants.

Does the $1.06B total include money already spent on student services?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $1,064,796,984.84 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 625-award count is a record tally, not a count of advising sessions. Cite CFDA 84.044 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 84.044?

The extract codes 54 states for TRIO Talent Search. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every school served. Those rows still sit under the $1,064,796,984.84 obligation total and the 410-recipient count.