Guardianship Assistance — CFDA 93.090

Guardianship-assistance obligations at $1.72 billion

USAspending.gov records $1,716,436,338.72 in obligations under CFDA 93.090. Two hundred fifty-seven awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $6.68 million per award — consistent with state title IV-E claiming rows rather than a per-child stipend. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical guardianship payment or a per-case cost.

The assistance-listing title is GUARDIANSHIP ASSISTANCE. CFDA 93.090 is the identifier. Other HHS foster-care or adoption listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $1.72 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined child-welfare total this packet does not contain.

54 recipients across 46 states

Fifty-four recipients share 257 awards, or about 4.8 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $1.72 billion evenly would assign about $31.79 million per recipient. That pattern is a state-agency roster with several claiming rows per named organization. The packet does not list the 54. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of guardians or children.

Forty-six states in the geographic count leave a visibly incomplete map. Guardianship-assistance dollars follow which jurisdictions claim under this listing, not population. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Fifty-four recipients against 46 states is a state child-welfare claiming file with a few extra rows, not a national roster of individual guardians. Four-point-eight award records per recipient fits quarterly IV-E claiming more than one grant per child. The $1,716,436,338.72 obligation stock is not a caseload census, not a kinship directory, and not a foster-care (93.658) rollup. Adoption assistance is a different CFDA. Quote 257 as assistance rows and 54 as named organizations. Forty-six states is the coded map, not a finding that the other jurisdictions never run guardianship programs.

Award count is not a child count

Among HHS assistance listings, 93.090 is a mid-volume file: 257 rows against 54 recipients. Quarterly claiming rows and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique agencies. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of guardianships.” Recipients (54) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (257) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report caseloads, kinship placements, or court filings. Citing 257 as children would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus payment outlays

The $1.72 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against guardianship-assistance awards — are not in the packet. A state child-welfare agency can show a large obligation stock while a FMAP claim follows a later quarter. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 93.090 to size this Guardianship Assistance listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a foster-care, adoption-assistance, or TANF dashboard. Those series live on other codes. This page reports the obligation book tagged 93.090.

What the 93.090 tables omit

The Guardianship Assistance hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a caseload file, not a kinship directory, and not a court-order log. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,716,436,338.72. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 257 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 paid to guardians.

Where the 93.090 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 93.090 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other HHS listings. For 93.090 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 93.090’s 257 awards spread $1,716,436,338.72 across 54 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 4.8 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. Fifty-four recipients remain the organizational headcount on this extract.

Questions

How much is obligated for Guardianship Assistance?

USAspending.gov records $1,716,436,338.72 in obligations for CFDA 93.090. SpendingVault indexes 257 awards, 54 recipients, and 46 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a child count. CFDA 93.090’s $1.72 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 93.090 carry?

The listing shows 257 awards against 54 recipients, or about 4.8 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $6.68 million per award. Award count is not a guardianship or child count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 93.090 awards?

The extract lists 54 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 93.090. Geographic coding covers 46 states. The packet does not name the 54 or publish caseloads. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. USAspending.gov indexes those rows as assistance obligations, not outlays.

Is $1.72 billion already paid to states for guardianship?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 93.090’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or children served. The $1.72 billion on 257 awards is the obligation figure.