Congressional Directives — CFDA 93.493

Directive obligations at $3.85 billion

USAspending.gov records $3,853,699,675.64 in obligations under CFDA 93.493. Two thousand five hundred twenty-eight awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $1.52 million per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical directed-project budget.

The assistance-listing title is CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTIVES. CFDA 93.493 is the identifier. Competitive research and formula block-grant listings are separate CFDA numbers and are not mixed into the $3.85 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined health-spending total this packet does not contain.

Nearly one award per recipient

One thousand nine hundred fifty-six recipients share 2,528 awards, or about 1.3 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $3.85 billion evenly would assign about $2.0 million per recipient. That near one-to-one pattern matches a directed-award file in which many named organizations each hold a small number of rows. The packet does not list the 1,956. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of projects finished.

Fifty-one states in the geographic count show nationwide coding in the USAspending state field. Directed dollars still sit where named recipients are coded. The state count does not flatten those differences. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a project-completion count

Among assistance listings, 93.493 is a wide-roster file: 2,528 rows against 1,956 recipients. Amendments can add rows without adding unique projects. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of directed projects completed.” Recipients (1,956) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (2,528) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report construction status, services delivered, or legislative bill numbers. Citing 2,528 as finished projects would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus directed-award outlays

The $3.85 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Congressional Directives awards — are not in the packet. A recipient can show a large obligation stock while work follows a multi-year calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 93.493 to size the Congressional Directives listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a project-status dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 93.493.

What the 93.493 tables omit

The Congressional Directives hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a legislative tracker, not a construction log, and not a ranking of directed awards by member. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $3,853,699,675.64. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 2,528 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 51 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 the directed activity.

Where the 93.493 table lives

The Congressional Directives program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 93.493 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other health listings. For 93.493 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 93.493’s 2,528 awards spread $3,853,699,675.64 across 1,956 recipients and 51 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 1.3 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

CFDA 93.493 is indexed at $3,853,699,675.64 in obligations, 2,528 awards, 1,956 recipients, and 51 states on USAspending.gov. Congressional Directives should be cited on that CFDA row alone. The $3.85 billion figure sizes the listing in the assistance file. It does not convert obligations into outlays, and it does not convert award count into a service, patient, student, or project census.

Readers who need the overlay tables should start on the program page for CFDA 93.493, then rank the listing on the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings; they do not replace the $3,853,699,675.64 obligation stock. Keep the four facts together when quoting Congressional Directives: dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov, award count as a stored-row count, recipient count as the organizational headcount (including 0 when the extract stores none), and the state figure as a geographic coding count.

Questions

How much is obligated for Congressional Directives?

USAspending.gov records $3,853,699,675.64 in obligations for CFDA 93.493. SpendingVault indexes 2,528 awards, 1,956 recipients, and 51 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a project-completion count. CFDA 93.493’s $3.85 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 93.493 carry?

The listing shows 2,528 awards against 1,956 recipients, or about 1.3 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $1.52 million per award. Award count is not a finished-project count. Recipient dollars are on the program page. CFDA 93.493’s $3.85 billion on 2,528 awards, with 1,956 recipients and 51 states in this aggregate, is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many organizations receive 93.493 awards?

The extract lists 1,956 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 93.493. Geographic coding covers 51 states. The packet does not name the 1,956 or publish project status. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. CFDA 93.493’s $3.85 billion on 2,528 awards, with 1,956 recipients and 51 states in this aggregate, is the USAspending obligation stock.

Is $3.85 billion already spent on directed projects?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 93.493’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or project completion. The $3.85 billion on 2,528 awards is the obligation figure.