Federal Pell Grant Program — CFDA 84.063 obligations

What $150.84 billion on 33,615 awards records

Assistance listing 84.063 is titled FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $150,839,312,206.65. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $150,839,312,206.65 as tuition cash already paid mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

33,615 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $150,839,312,206.65 by 33,615 produces a mean near $4.49 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical student Pell amount and not a maximum award. Campus-level assistance actions can bundle many students onto one record, which is why 33,615 files can carry $150,839,312,206.65 without describing a per-student grant.

5,067 recipients across 59 states

CFDA 84.063 lists 5,067 recipients and 59 states against 33,615 awards. Recipient count is not unique students. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing—often institutions. 5,067 is not a headcount of Pell recipients in the colloquial sense. The 59-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, not a campus map of every branch.

Because both award volume and recipient volume are high relative to many assistance listings, extra campus actions can lift the 33,615 tally without moving $150,839,312,206.65 much. The Pell hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another. Repeat award years increment the award count.

Obligations versus student aid outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $150,839,312,206.65 figure for CFDA 84.063 can include commitments that will disburse later. Department of Education Pell volume reports and a single fiscal year’s student-aid appropriation 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 84.063 program page. Do not stretch 33,615 awards or 5,067 recipients to cover every student-aid dollar that touches a campus.

What the 84.063 tables omit

The Federal Pell Grant Program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a student roster, not a FAFSA file, and not a default-rate table. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $150,839,312,206.65. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 33,615 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 59 states is a coding field. An institution coded to one cell can dominate geography while students attend elsewhere. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 84.063

A complete citation is $150,839,312,206.65 in obligations for CFDA 84.063, covering 33,615 awards, 5,067 recipients, and 59 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is institutional volume rather than dollars, lead with 5,067 recipients and 33,615 awards, then the dollar total.

Start with the Federal Pell Grant Program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is application advice.

A worked reading of the 84.063 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $150,839,312,206.65, 33,615 awards, 5,067 recipients, and 59 states under CFDA 84.063. The mean near $4.49 million is a quotient at the award-record level, not a student Pell amount. If a later USAspending.gov file adds campus actions faster than dollars, 33,615 can rise while $150,839,312,206.65 barely moves. If a few large institutional actions post, dollars can jump without a matching jump in 5,067 recipients.

Nothing in the extract splits Pell by undergraduate level, enrollment intensity, or maximum versus reduced awards. Those cuts live in Department of Education publications. Treat CFDA 84.063 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the Federal Pell Grant Program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 5,067 organizational recipients so the figure is not read as a student census.

Readers comparing CFDA 84.063 across extracts should keep the 33,615-award count and the 5,067-recipient count in the same sentence as $150,839,312,206.65. Dropping either volume fact turns the obligation total into a floating headline. SpendingVault’s program hub is the place to verify that the current file still carries those four packet facts across 59 states.

Questions

How much is obligated under the Federal Pell Grant Program?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $150,839,312,206.65 in obligations for CFDA 84.063. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of student grants. The same extract lists 33,615 awards, 5,067 recipients, and 59 states.

Are the 5,067 recipients Pell students?

No. The 5,067 figure is organizational recipients stored on USAspending.gov assistance rows for CFDA 84.063, typically institutions, not a student headcount. Award volume is 33,615 records. The $150,839,312,206.65 total is still an obligation sum, not a per-student average published on this page.

Does the Pell total include money already paid to campuses?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $150,839,312,206.65 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 33,615-award count is a record tally, not a count of disbursements posted to student accounts. Cite CFDA 84.063 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 84.063?

The extract codes 59 states for the Federal Pell Grant Program. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every campus. Those rows still sit under the $150,839,312,206.65 obligation total and the 5,067-recipient count. Cite CFDA 84.063 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.