Health Center Program — CFDA 93.224 obligations

What $43.36 billion on 4,264 awards records

Assistance listing 93.224 is titled HEALTH CENTER PROGRAM (COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS, MIGRANT HEALTH CENTERS, HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS, AND PUBLIC HOUSING PRIMARY CARE) in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $43,363,669,977.31. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $43,363,669,977.31 as cash already drawn by clinics mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

4,264 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $43,363,669,977.31 by 4,264 produces a mean near $10.2 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical site budget and not a per-visit cost. Health-center dollars often sit on many grantee actions, which is why 4,264 records can carry $43,363,669,977.31 without describing a typical clinic.

1,378 recipients across 59 states

CFDA 93.224 lists 1,378 recipients and 59 states against 4,264 awards. Recipient count is not unique patients. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing—health-center grantees, not a census of visits. 1,378 is not a headcount of clinicians. The 59-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, not a map of every delivery site.

Because both award volume and recipient volume are substantial, extra continuation actions can lift the 4,264 tally without moving $43,363,669,977.31 much. The health-center hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another. Repeat grant years increment the award count.

Obligations versus health-center outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $43,363,669,977.31 figure for CFDA 93.224 can include commitments that will disburse later. HRSA Uniform Data System tables and a single fiscal year’s health-center 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 93.224 program page. Do not stretch 4,264 awards or 1,378 recipients to cover every primary-care dollar that touches a community.

What the 93.224 tables omit

The Health Center Program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a patient roster, not a visit-count file, and not a sliding-fee schedule. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $43,363,669,977.31. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 4,264 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 59 states is a coding field. A grantee coded to one cell can dominate geography while sites sit in many counties. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 93.224

A complete citation is $43,363,669,977.31 in obligations for CFDA 93.224, covering 4,264 awards, 1,378 recipients, and 59 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 1,378 recipients and 4,264 awards, then the dollar total.

Start with the Health Center Program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is a clinic-application instruction.

A worked reading of the 93.224 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $43,363,669,977.31, 4,264 awards, 1,378 recipients, and 59 states under CFDA 93.224. The mean near $10.2 million is a quotient at the award-record level, not a per-visit cost. If a later USAspending.gov file adds continuation actions faster than dollars, 4,264 can rise while $43,363,669,977.31 barely moves. If a few large grantee awards post, dollars can jump without a matching jump in 1,378 recipients.

Nothing in the extract splits community health centers from migrant, homeless, or public-housing primary-care streams inside the listing title. Those operational cuts live in HRSA publications. Treat CFDA 93.224 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the Health Center Program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 1,378 organizational recipients so the figure is not read as a patient census.

Readers comparing CFDA 93.224 across extracts should keep the 4,264-award count and the 1,378-recipient count in the same sentence as $43,363,669,977.31. 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 Health Center Program?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $43,363,669,977.31 in obligations for CFDA 93.224. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of patient visits. The same extract lists 4,264 awards, 1,378 recipients, and 59 states.

Are the 1,378 recipients patients?

No. The 1,378 figure is organizational recipients stored on USAspending.gov assistance rows for CFDA 93.224, typically health-center grantees, not a patient headcount. Award volume is 4,264 records. The $43,363,669,977.31 total is still an obligation sum, not a per-visit cost published here.

Does the health-center total include money already drawn by clinics?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $43,363,669,977.31 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 4,264-award count is a record tally, not a count of drawdowns posted by sites. Cite CFDA 93.224 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 93.224?

The extract codes 59 states for the Health Center Program. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every delivery site. Those rows still sit under the $43,363,669,977.31 obligation total and the 1,378-recipient count. Cite CFDA 93.224 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.