Cancer Centers Support Grants — CFDA 93.397

What $8.31 billion on 290 awards means

Assistance listing 93.397 is titled CANCER CENTERS SUPPORT GRANTS in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $8,305,216,099.12. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not a center operating invoice already paid.

290 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $8,305,216,099.12 by 290 produces a mean near $28.6 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical core-grant budget a reader might recall from a funding notice and not a per-patient research cost. Support-grant dollars often sit on a modest number of large center actions, which is why 290 records can carry $8,305,216,099.12.

117 organizational recipients appear on those rows. 40 states are coded for place of performance. Neither count converts the obligation total into a headcount of investigators.

117 recipients in 40 states

CFDA 93.397 lists 117 recipients and 40 states against 290 awards. Recipient count is not unique scientists. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores. One cancer center can hold several awards; 117 is not a headcount of clinics.

Forty states is a coded-jurisdiction span, narrower than a 50-state formula program. Because 290 awards are few relative to the dollar total, a handful of large center actions can move $8,305,216,099.12 without a matching jump in the 117-recipient count.

Obligations versus center outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $8,305,216,099.12 figure for CFDA 93.397 can include multi-year commitments that will disburse later. A separate center-designation list or a Treasury outlay table is a different publication. 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 93.397 program page. Do not stretch 290 awards or 117 recipients to cover every cancer-research dollar tagged under another listing.

What the 93.397 tables omit

The Cancer Centers Support Grants hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a grant abstract file, not a patient roster, and not a ranking of centers. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $8,305,216,099.12.

Place-of-performance on 40 states is a coding field. A multi-site center coded to one cell can dominate geography while work occurs in several locations. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 93.397

A complete citation is $8,305,216,099.12 in obligations for CFDA 93.397, covering 290 awards, 117 recipients, and 40 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is geographic reach rather than dollars, lead with 40 states, then the dollar total.

Start with the Cancer Centers Support Grants program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total.

A worked reading of the 93.397 extract

Start from the four packet facts on CFDA 93.397: $8,305,216,099.12 in obligations, 290 awards, 117 recipients, and 40 states. The mean near $28.64 million per award is a quotient from those two packet totals, not a typical unit cost and not a household or client rate. If a later USAspending.gov file adds a few large actions, dollars can jump while 117 recipients barely move. If modifications proliferate, 290 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $8,305,216,099.12.

Nothing in the extract splits CANCER CENTERS SUPPORT GRANTS into subaccounts, fiscal years, or outlay versus obligation series beyond the stored totals. Those cuts live in other publications. Treat CFDA 93.397 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 290 awards and 117 recipients next to the dollars so the record count is visible beside $8,305,216,099.12. Name the series as obligations, not outlays, every time the figure is reused. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total.

A complete working citation for this listing is $8,305,216,099.12 in USAspending.gov obligations for CFDA 93.397, covering 290 awards, 117 recipients, and 40 states, indexed on SpendingVault. Do not convert 290 awards into designated centers, or 117 recipients into a scientist roster. The 40-state field is place-of-performance coding in the assistance extract. Read the CANCER CENTERS SUPPORT GRANTS hub before inferring a geographic story from the dollar total alone. If a number you expected is missing from $8,305,216,099.12, the usual cause is a different reporting concept rather than a gap in the 290 award rows.

Questions

How much is obligated under cancer centers support grants?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $8,305,216,099.12 in obligations for CFDA 93.397. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of centers. The same extract lists 290 awards, 117 recipients, and 40 states.

How many awards does CFDA 93.397 have?

The indexed award count is 290. Those records carry $8,305,216,099.12 in obligations. The 290 figure is a file statistic, not a count of investigators. 117 organizational recipients are stored on those rows. The program hub on SpendingVault holds the award rows behind those totals. Keep the series labeled as obligations from USAspending.gov assistance awards; do not swap in an outlay figure from another report.

Is the $8.31 billion already spent on center operations?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $8,305,216,099.12 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. Cite CFDA 93.397 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series. The program hub on SpendingVault holds the award rows behind those totals. Keep the series labeled as obligations from USAspending.gov assistance awards; do not swap in an outlay figure from another report.

How many states appear on CFDA 93.397?

The extract codes 40 states for Cancer Centers Support Grants. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every center. Those rows still sit under the $8,305,216,099.12 obligation total and the 117-recipient count. The program hub on SpendingVault holds the award rows behind those totals. Keep the series labeled as obligations from USAspending.gov assistance awards; do not swap in an outlay figure from another report.