Foster Care Title IV-E — CFDA 93.658

Few awards, a $30.2 billion obligation stock

USAspending.gov records $30,186,483,529 in obligations under CFDA 93.658. Three hundred seventy-eight awards produce that total. A simple average is about $79.9 million per award — among the higher dollars-per-award ratios in this batch of assistance listings. Title IV-E foster care assistance is typically recorded as large state-administered grants, so a short award roster against a large dollar stock is the expected shape of the table, not a missing-data error.

The assistance-listing title is FOSTER CARE TITLE IV-E. CFDA 93.658 is the join key. Related child-welfare listings, including adoption assistance, are separate CFDA numbers and are not folded into the $30.2 billion.

Seventy-seven recipients nationwide

Seventy-seven recipients appear against 378 awards, or about five award records per recipient on average. Splitting $30.2 billion evenly would assign about $392 million per recipient; real awards are not even. State and territorial child-welfare agencies are the usual organizational unit on this kind of listing, but the packet does not name the 77.

Fifty-two states in the geographic count means 93.658 is coded as a national assistance listing in this extract. It does not mean each of those states obligated the same amount, and it does not publish a per-child federal share. Place-of-performance dollars belong on the program table.

What the award file is not

Award count is 378 assistance records, including modifications as USAspending stored them. It is not the number of foster-care placements, group homes, or caseworkers. A single recipient can post quarterly or annual award actions that each count as a row. Inflating 378 into a caseload would be a unit error.

The packet also does not report outlays, matching rates, or maintenance-of-effort. Those concepts exist in child-welfare finance; they are not fields in this extract.

Obligations versus payments to states

The $30.2 billion is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. An obligation is the recorded federal commitment on the assistance award. An outlay is cash paid. Claims submitted by a state against Title IV-E can lag the obligation date. This page does not estimate how much of the stock has been drawn.

When comparing 93.658 to another child-welfare CFDA, match units: obligations to obligations, same extract, same CFDA number. Mixing 93.658 obligations with a different listing’s outlays creates a false gap.

Tables for CFDA 93.658

The Foster Care Title IV-E program page holds the award and recipient views behind these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 93.658 by obligation size. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings. Start on the program page when the question is specifically 93.658.

Readers comparing Title IV-E to other child-welfare assistance should stay on CFDA 93.658 for this $30,186,483,529 stock. The 378 awards and 77 recipients describe a state-administered grant file, not a placement census. Fifty-two states in the geographic count do not equalize dollars. If a second publication quotes a different Title IV-E figure, check whether it used obligations from USAspending.gov and whether it mixed in another listing. Those two checks explain most gaps before anyone assumes the extract is incomplete.

SpendingVault does not convert the $30.2 billion into an outlay series or a per-child federal share. The program page is the place to inspect award-level and recipient-level rows that sit behind the four facts. The all-programs index is for ranking 93.658 by obligation size among other assistance listings. Agency pages remain awarding-agency rollups. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault.

A short award roster carrying tens of billions

Foster Care Title IV-E is the opposite of a high-volume benefit file in this extract. USAspending.gov records $30,186,483,529 in obligations on only 378 awards and 77 recipients, with a 52-state geographic count. About $79.9 million per award on a simple average is the arithmetic of large state-administered grants. The listing is still assistance obligations, not a count of children in care and not an outlay series.

Seventy-seven recipients against 52 states is roughly one-plus administering entities per geographic label, which is the expected shape of a state-run entitlement CFDA. Some jurisdictions may appear more than once if multiple agencies are named; the packet does not itemize them. Award count (378) can include quarterly or annual claiming actions, so 378 is not “378 foster-care programs.”

Keep 93.658 on its own row. Related child-welfare assistance, including adoption assistance, is a different listing in the CFDA file. Adding listings together is a modeling choice this page does not make. The program page is the overlay for the $30.2 billion, 378 awards, 77 recipients, and 52 states. Agency pages may include 93.658 among other listings. Source: USAspending.gov.

Questions

How much is obligated for Foster Care Title IV-E?

USAspending.gov records $30,186,483,529 in obligations for CFDA 93.658. SpendingVault indexes 378 awards, 77 recipients, and 52 states. The figure is an obligation total from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a count of children in foster care. CFDA 93.658’s $30.2 billion on 378 awards and 77 recipients is the USAspending obligation stock.

Why are there only 378 awards on such a large listing?

CFDA 93.658 posts 378 awards against $30.2 billion, or about $79.9 million per award on a simple average. State-administered Title IV-E assistance often appears as a small number of large grant records rather than millions of household rows. Award count includes modifications as stored by USAspending.

How many recipients are on CFDA 93.658?

The extract lists 77 recipients. Geographic coding covers 52 states. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards, not individual foster families. Names and dollar splits are on the program page. The packet does not publish a per-child amount. CFDA 93.658’s $30.2 billion on 378 awards and 77 recipients is the USAspending obligation stock.

Is $30.2 billion already paid to states?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 93.658’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, federal matching percentages, or remaining balances. CFDA 93.658’s $30.2 billion on 378 awards and 77 recipients is the USAspending obligation stock.