Head Start — CFDA 93.600 obligations

What $74.37 billion on 5,258 awards records

Assistance listing 93.600 is titled HEAD START in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $74,374,162,611.85. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $74,374,162,611.85 as cash already paid to grantees for classrooms mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

5,258 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $74,374,162,611.85 by 5,258 produces a mean near $14.1 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical per-child slot cost and not a classroom budget. Head Start dollars often sit on local grantee actions, which is why 5,258 records can carry $74,374,162,611.85 without describing a typical center.

1,704 recipients across 57 states

CFDA 93.600 lists 1,704 recipients and 57 states against 5,258 awards. Recipient count is not unique children. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing—grantees, not a census of preschoolers. 1,704 is not a headcount of classrooms. The 57-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, not a map of every center.

Because both award volume and recipient volume are substantial, extra continuation actions can lift the 5,258 tally without moving $74,374,162,611.85 much. The Head Start hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another. Repeat grant years increment the award count.

Obligations versus Head Start outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $74,374,162,611.85 figure for CFDA 93.600 can include commitments that will disburse later. ACF Head Start PIR tables and a single fiscal year’s appropriation are different publications. 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 93.600 program page. Do not stretch 5,258 awards or 1,704 recipients to cover every early-childhood dollar that touches a community.

What the 93.600 tables omit

The Head Start hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not an enrollment file, not a classroom roster, and not a monitoring-score table. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $74,374,162,611.85. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 5,258 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 57 states is a coding field. A grantee coded to one cell can dominate geography while sites sit in many counties. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 93.600

A complete citation is $74,374,162,611.85 in obligations for CFDA 93.600, covering 5,258 awards, 1,704 recipients, and 57 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is grantee volume rather than dollars, lead with 1,704 recipients and 5,258 awards, then the dollar total.

Start with the Head Start program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is enrollment advice.

A worked reading of the 93.600 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $74,374,162,611.85, 5,258 awards, 1,704 recipients, and 57 states under CFDA 93.600. The mean near $14.1 million is a quotient at the award-record level, not a per-child slot cost. If a later USAspending.gov file adds continuation actions faster than dollars, 5,258 can rise while $74,374,162,611.85 barely moves. If a few large grantee awards post, dollars can jump without a matching jump in 1,704 recipients.

Nothing in the extract splits Head Start from Early Head Start, or center-based from home-based options. Those cuts live in ACF publications. Treat CFDA 93.600 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the Head Start program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 1,704 organizational recipients so the figure is not read as a child census.

Readers comparing CFDA 93.600 across extracts should keep the 5,258-award count and the 1,704-recipient count in the same sentence as $74,374,162,611.85. Dropping either volume fact turns the obligation total into a floating headline. SpendingVault’s program hub is the place to verify that the current file still carries those four packet facts across 57 states.

Questions

How much is obligated under Head Start on USAspending?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $74,374,162,611.85 in obligations for CFDA 93.600. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of enrolled children. The same extract lists 5,258 awards, 1,704 recipients, and 57 states.

Are the 1,704 recipients Head Start children?

No. The 1,704 figure is organizational recipients stored on USAspending.gov assistance rows for CFDA 93.600, typically grantees, not a child headcount. Award volume is 5,258 records. The $74,374,162,611.85 total is still an obligation sum, not a per-slot cost published on this page.

Does the Head Start total include money already paid to grantees?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $74,374,162,611.85 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 5,258-award count is a record tally, not a count of drawdowns posted by centers. Cite CFDA 93.600 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 93.600?

The extract codes 57 states for Head Start. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every classroom. Those rows still sit under the $74,374,162,611.85 obligation total and the 1,704-recipient count. Cite CFDA 93.600 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.