Community Services Block Grant — CFDA 93.569

Block-grant obligations at $4.12 billion

USAspending.gov records $4,116,871,918.50 in obligations under CFDA 93.569. Seven hundred twelve awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $5.78 million per award — larger than a typical research grant and consistent with state and territorial block-grant awards. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical community-action agency budget.

The assistance-listing title is COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT. CFDA 93.569 is the identifier. Other human-services listings tagged under other CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $4.12 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined anti-poverty total this packet does not contain.

140 recipients, 56 coded jurisdictions

One hundred forty recipients share 712 awards, or about 5.1 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $4.12 billion evenly would assign about $29.4 million per recipient. That pattern matches a formula portfolio in which a state or designated agency holds several award years or amendments. The packet does not list the 140. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of local community-action agencies or clients.

Fifty-six states in the geographic count show nationwide coding, including territories as the source stored them. Formula dollars still vary by state allocation rules that are not in this packet. The state count does not flatten those differences. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a client count

Among block-grant listings, 93.569 is a moderate file: 712 rows against 140 recipients. Annual formula awards and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique grantees. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of community-service programs.” Recipients (140) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (712) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report households served, local agency counts, or poverty caseloads. Citing 712 as clients or centers would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus CSBG outlays

The $4.12 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Community Services Block Grant awards — are not in the packet. A state can show a large obligation stock while local agencies draw on a different calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 93.569 to size the Community Services Block Grant listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a poverty-outcomes dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 93.569.

What the 93.569 tables omit

The Community Services Block Grant hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a local-agency directory, not a household census, and not a ranking of poverty rates. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $4,116,871,918.50. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 712 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 56 states is a coding field. A statewide recipient coded to one cell can dominate geography while services sit in many counties. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares.

Where the 93.569 table lives

The Community Services Block Grant program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 93.569 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other human-services listings. For 93.569 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 93.569’s 712 awards spread $4,116,871,918.50 across 140 recipients and 56 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 5.1 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

CFDA 93.569 is indexed at $4,116,871,918.50 in obligations, 712 awards, 140 recipients, and 56 states on USAspending.gov. Community Services Block Grant should be cited on that CFDA row alone. The $4.12 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 93.569, 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 $4,116,871,918.50 obligation stock. Keep the four facts together when quoting Community Services Block Grant: 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 the Community Services Block Grant?

USAspending.gov records $4,116,871,918.50 in obligations for CFDA 93.569. SpendingVault indexes 712 awards, 140 recipients, and 56 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a household count. CFDA 93.569’s $4.12 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 93.569 carry?

The listing shows 712 awards against 140 recipients, or about 5.1 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $5.78 million per award. Award count is not a client or local-agency count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive CSBG awards?

The extract lists 140 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 93.569. Geographic coding covers 56 states. The packet does not name the 140 or publish service caseloads. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. CFDA 93.569’s $4.12 billion on 712 awards, with 140 recipients and 56 states in this aggregate, is the USAspending obligation stock.

Is $4.12 billion already spent on community services?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 93.569’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or households served. The $4.12 billion on 712 awards is the obligation figure.