Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs — CFDA 84.334

GEAR UP obligations at $2.36 billion

USAspending.gov records $2,359,528,895.67 in obligations under CFDA 84.334. Two hundred twenty-five awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $10.5 million per award — larger than a typical campus TRIO grant and consistent with multi-year state and partnership awards. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical student scholarship or a per-pupil amount.

The assistance-listing title is GAINING EARLY AWARENESS AND READINESS FOR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS. CFDA 84.334 is the identifier. Other college-access listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $2.36 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined college-readiness total this packet does not contain.

145 recipients across 46 states

One hundred forty-five recipients share 225 awards, or about 1.6 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $2.36 billion evenly would assign about $16.3 million per recipient. That pattern is close to one or two awards per partnership — typical of multi-year GEAR UP cohorts rather than a dense investigator file. The packet does not list the 145. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of students or school districts in a partnership.

Forty-six states in the geographic count leave a few jurisdictions uncoded. College-access dollars still concentrate where awarded partnerships operate. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a student or scholarship count

Among education listings, 84.334 is a moderate-row file: 225 awards against 145 recipients. Multi-year awards and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique partnerships. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of GEAR UP programs.” Recipients (145) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (225) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report students served, FAFSA completions, or college-going rates. Citing 225 as students or scholarships would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus college-access outlays

The $2.36 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against GEAR UP awards — are not in the packet. A partnership can show a large obligation stock while services follow a six- or seven-year cohort calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 84.334 to size this Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as an enrollment dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 84.334.

What the 84.334 tables omit

The GEAR UP hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a student roster, not a scholarship ledger, and not an outcomes report. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $2,359,528,895.67. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 225 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 46 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 tutoring or scholarships.

Where the 84.334 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 84.334 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other education listings. For 84.334 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 84.334’s 225 awards spread $2,359,528,895.67 across 145 recipients and 46 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 1.6 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. Read 84.334 as a GEAR UP partnership book: 145 organizations, 225 awards, 46 states, and $10.5 million averages that describe multi-year cohorts rather than student scholarships. The $2.36 billion remains an obligation stock on USAspending.gov.

Questions

How much is obligated for GEAR UP?

USAspending.gov records $2,359,528,895.67 in obligations for CFDA 84.334. SpendingVault indexes 225 awards, 145 recipients, and 46 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a student count. CFDA 84.334’s $2.36 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 84.334 carry?

The listing shows 225 awards against 145 recipients, or about 1.6 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $10.5 million per award. Award count is not a student or scholarship count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 84.334 awards?

The extract lists 145 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 84.334. Geographic coding covers 46 states. The packet does not name the 145 or publish enrollment data. Recipient count is the organizational headcount.

Is $2.36 billion already spent on college-readiness services?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 84.334’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or students served. The $2.36 billion on 225 awards is the obligation figure.