MaryLee Allen Promoting Safe and Stable Families — CFDA 93.556

Family-preservation obligations at $1.43 billion

USAspending.gov records $1,425,746,793.38 in obligations under CFDA 93.556. One thousand two hundred sixty-three awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $1,128,858 per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical family-support grant and not a cost per child in care.

The assistance-listing title is MARYLEE ALLEN PROMOTING SAFE AND STABLE FAMILIES PROGRAM. CFDA 93.556 is the identifier. Other child-welfare listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $1.43 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined child-welfare total this packet does not contain.

230 recipients across 56 jurisdictions

Two hundred thirty recipients share 1,263 awards, or about 5.5 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $1,425,746,793.38 evenly would assign about $6.20 million per recipient. That density is consistent with state and territorial child-welfare agencies carrying multiple assistance rows over time. The packet does not list the 230. Recipient count is the organizational headcount on the federal extract, not a census of local agencies or families.

Fifty-six jurisdictions in the geographic count cover states plus territories and other coded entities in the USAspending state field. Family-preservation dollars still follow formula allocations, not equal shares. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award rows are not a caseload census

Among HHS child-welfare listings, 93.556 is a multi-row formula file: 1,263 awards against 230 recipients. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of families served” and a worse proxy for preservation or adoption cases. Recipients (230) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (1,263) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report children in care, kinship placements, or time-limited reunification counts. Citing 1,263 as families or 230 as county offices would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions.

Obligations versus family-support outlays

The $1,425,746,793.38 is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Promoting Safe and Stable Families awards — are not in the packet. A formula file can show a large obligation stock while quarterly draws follow a later calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 93.556 to size this MaryLee Allen listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a child-welfare outcomes dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 93.556.

What the 93.556 tables omit

The program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a caseload ledger, not a family directory, and not a court-order census. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,425,746,793.38. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 1,263 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 56 jurisdictions 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 local providers.

A researcher comparing 93.556 with other Title IV-B or foster-care codes should keep CFDA numbers separate. The packet does not merge those listings into one child-welfare total.

Where the 93.556 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 93.556 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other HHS listings. For 93.556 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 93.556’s 1,263 awards spread $1,425,746,793.38 across 230 recipients and 56 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 5.5 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Promoting Safe and Stable Families is a child-welfare formula listing: 1,263 awards on 230 recipients across 56 jurisdictions. The 5.5 rows per recipient is the fingerprint, not a caseload. Read the $1,425,746,793.38 as the USAspending obligation stock for CFDA 93.556 only.

Questions

How much is obligated for Promoting Safe and Stable Families?

USAspending.gov records $1,425,746,793.38 in obligations for CFDA 93.556. SpendingVault indexes 1,263 awards, 230 recipients, and 56 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a family caseload. CFDA 93.556’s $1.43 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 93.556 carry?

The listing shows 1,263 awards against 230 recipients, or about 5.5 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $1,128,858 per award. Award count is not a count of families served. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 93.556 awards?

The extract lists 230 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 93.556, not a census of county child-welfare offices. Geographic coding covers 56 jurisdictions. The packet does not name the 230 or publish caseloads.

Is $1.43 billion already paid to family-support programs?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 93.556’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or families served. The $1,425,746,793.38 on 1,263 awards is the obligation figure.