Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds — CFDA 93.596

Sizing CFDA 93.596 at $29.8 billion

USAspending.gov records $29,764,137,224.34 in obligations under CFDA 93.596. Two thousand three awards make up that stock. A simple average is about $14.9 million per award. That ratio sits between small-row benefit files and the very large state IV-E grants: enough records to show repeated award actions, few enough that each row is still a sizable assistance action.

The full assistance-listing title is CHILD CARE MANDATORY AND MATCHING FUNDS OF THE CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT FUND. CFDA 93.596 is the identifier. Discretionary child-care funds, if tagged under a different CFDA, are outside this total. Mixing them would invent a combined CCDF number this packet does not contain.

Three hundred fifty recipients across 56 states

Three hundred fifty recipients appear against 2,003 awards — about six award records per recipient on average. Splitting $29.8 billion evenly would assign about $85 million per recipient. Lead agencies, territories, and some sub-state administering entities can all appear as organizational recipients; the packet does not list the 350 names or their ranks.

Fifty-six states in the geographic count is a wide coding, typically encompassing the District of Columbia and territories in USAspending’s state field. It is not an equal-share formula table. Some jurisdictions will show many modifications of the same underlying grant, which raises award count without adding new states.

Mandatory and matching funds, as tagged

The title specifies mandatory and matching funds of the Child Care and Development Fund. USAspending still stores the activity as assistance awards with obligation amounts. Nothing in the four facts is a market-rate survey, a copay schedule, or a count of providers. Award count (2,003) is a count of assistance records.

Readers comparing 93.596 to a state child-care budget should keep the federal assistance CFDA as one input, not as that state’s entire early-care ledger. Local and state funds are not in this extract.

Obligations are not slot payments

The $29.8 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid to states or, downstream, to providers — are not in the packet. A mandatory or matching award can be obligated while monthly provider payments continue on a different calendar. Deobligations and upward modifications both move the stock.

Use 93.596 to answer how large this CCDF mandatory-and-matching listing is in the assistance file, how many awards and recipients it carries, and how widely it is coded geographically. Do not use it to score quality of care.

Where to read the 93.596 table

The child-care mandatory and matching program page overlays these aggregates. The all-programs index ranks 93.596 among other assistance listings. Agency pages roll up awarding-agency spending that may include this CFDA among others. For this listing only, the program page is the matching overlay.

The $29,764,137,224.34 obligation stock on CFDA 93.596 should be quoted with the 2,003-award and 350-recipient structure attached. A reader who cites only the headline dollars hides whether the listing is a handful of block grants or hundreds of administering entities. Here it is the latter, with a 56-state geographic count. Mandatory and matching funds share one CFDA number in this extract; this page does not invent a split between those two words in the title.

Child-care slot counts, provider rosters, and copay schedules are outside the packet. Outlays are outside the packet. Use the program page to open the 93.596 overlay, the programs index to rank the listing, and agency pages for awarding-agency totals. Source: USAspending.gov.

Mandatory and matching funds, one CFDA number

Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund is stored as one assistance listing: CFDA 93.596, $29,764,137,224.34 in obligations, 2,003 awards, 350 recipients, 56 states. The title names two funding streams; the four facts do not split the $29.8 billion between “mandatory” and “matching.” Anyone who needs that split has to look at award-level descriptions on the program page or at another source. This copy does not invent a ratio.

Three hundred fifty recipients is a denser organizational set than a 70-recipient state-entitlement file and a thinner set than a 900-recipient research file. About six award records per recipient on average, and about $85 million per recipient if dollars were even, are scale ratios only. Lead agencies and additional administering entities can both appear. Fifty-six in the geographic count is a wide USAspending state field, not an equal-share child-care formula.

Do not convert 2,003 awards into child-care slots or 350 recipients into providers. Those are different units. Do not treat the $29.8 billion as outlays. The program page overlays 93.596; the programs index ranks it; agency pages roll up awarding agencies. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for child care matching funds on USAspending?

USAspending.gov records $29,764,137,224.34 in obligations for CFDA 93.596, Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund. SpendingVault indexes 2,003 awards, 350 recipients, and 56 states. The total is an obligation sum, not an outlay and not a count of child-care slots.

How many recipients are on CFDA 93.596?

The extract lists 350 recipients against 2,003 awards. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards, not individual providers or families. A simple even split of $29.8 billion would be about $85 million per recipient; actual amounts are uneven. Names are on the program page.

Does 56 states mean every jurisdiction got the same grant?

No. Fifty-six states appear in the USAspending geographic count, which can include the District of Columbia and territories. That count does not equalize the $29.8 billion. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table, not in the packet headline. CFDA 93.596’s $29.8 billion on 2,003 awards and 350 recipients is the USAspending obligation stock.

Is $29.8 billion already paid to child-care providers?

Not necessarily. Obligations are federal commitments on assistance awards tagged 93.596. Outlays are payments. This page reports the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. Provider payments, copays, and state funds are outside the packet. CFDA 93.596’s $29.8 billion on 2,003 awards and 350 recipients is the USAspending obligation stock.