Education Research, Development and Dissemination — CFDA 84.305

Research dollars on 484 award records

Assistance listing 84.305 is titled EDUCATION RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND DISSEMINATION in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $930,791,403.13. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $930.8M as reports already issued mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

484 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $930,791,403.13 by 484 produces a mean near $1.92 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical research-grant budget and not a cost per publication. Education research dollars often sit on multi-year grantee actions, which is why 484 records can carry $930.8M.

149 recipients in 38 states

CFDA 84.305 lists 149 recipients and 38 states against 484 awards. Recipient count is not unique students. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing. A university or research firm can appear on multiple awards; 149 is not a census of investigators. The 38-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, narrower than many formula listings, and is not a map of every school district studied.

484 awards against 149 recipients averages about 3.2 award records per recipient. Extra modifications can lift the 484 tally without moving $930,791,403.13 much. The 84.305 hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another.

Obligations versus research outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $930,791,403.13 figure for CFDA 84.305 can include multi-year grant commitments that will disburse later. A What Works Clearinghouse extract, a publication count, 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 84.305 program page. Do not stretch 484 awards or 149 recipients to cover every federal dollar that touches education research.

What the 84.305 tables omit

The education research hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a journal index, not a student-outcome file, and not a curriculum catalog. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $930,791,403.13. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 484 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 38 states is a coding field. A research organization coded to one cell can dominate geography while field sites sit in many counties. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 84.305

A complete citation is $930,791,403.13 in obligations for CFDA 84.305, covering 484 awards, 149 recipients, and 38 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is how concentrated the grantee set is, lead with 149 recipients and 38 states, then the $930.8M total.

Start with the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is instructional advice.

A worked reading of the 84.305 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $930,791,403.13, 484 awards, 149 recipients, and 38 states under CFDA 84.305. The mean near $1.92 million is a quotient from the award count, not a typical study budget. If a later USAspending.gov file adds many small dissemination actions, 484 can rise while dollars barely move. If a few large research commitments post, $930.8M can jump without a matching jump in 149 recipients.

Nothing in the extract splits research from development from dissemination. Those cuts live outside this packet. Treat CFDA 84.305 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 484 awards and 149 recipients next to the dollars so the concentrated grantee set is visible.

Questions

How much is obligated under education research CFDA 84.305?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $930,791,403.13 in obligations for CFDA 84.305, Education Research, Development and Dissemination. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of studies. The same extract lists 484 awards, 149 recipients, and 38 states.

How many research organizations appear on CFDA 84.305?

The indexed recipient count is 149 against 484 awards and 38 states. That is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores, not a census of investigators or students. The $930,791,403.13 obligation total still sits on those 484 award rows.

Does the $930.8M total include research already paid?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $930,791,403.13 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 484-award count is a record tally, not a count of publications. Cite CFDA 84.305 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 84.305?

The extract codes 38 states for this research listing. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every school studied. Those rows still sit under the $930,791,403.13 obligation total and the 149-recipient count.