Block Grants for Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse — CFDA 93.959

What $10.68 billion on 445 awards means

Assistance listing 93.959 is titled BLOCK GRANTS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $10,683,315,492.99. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not a treatment session already delivered.

445 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $10,683,315,492.99 by 445 produces a mean near $24.0 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical clinic budget and not a per-client cost. Block-grant dollars often sit on a modest number of large state actions, which is why 445 records can carry $10,683,315,492.99.

71 organizational recipients appear on those rows. 59 states are coded for place of performance—among the widest geographic fields in this packet set. Neither count converts the obligation total into a caseload.

71 recipients across 59 states

CFDA 93.959 lists 71 recipients and 59 states against 445 awards. Recipient count is not unique patients. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores. A state substance-abuse agency can appear on multiple awards; 71 is not a headcount of providers.

Fifty-nine states is a coded-jurisdiction span, including territories if they appear in the file’s state field. Because 445 awards are few relative to the dollar total, a handful of large state actions can move $10,683,315,492.99 without a matching jump in the 71-recipient count.

Obligations versus treatment outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $10,683,315,492.99 figure for CFDA 93.959 can include commitments that will disburse as block-grant years continue. A separate treatment-episode report or a Treasury outlay table is a different publication. 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 93.959 program page. Do not stretch 445 awards or 71 recipients to cover every substance-abuse dollar tagged under another listing.

What the 93.959 tables omit

The substance-abuse block-grant hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a clinic roster, not a wait-list file, and not a ranking of outcomes. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $10,683,315,492.99.

Place-of-performance on 59 states is a coding field. A statewide grantee coded to one cell can dominate geography while services occur in many localities. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 93.959

A complete citation is $10,683,315,492.99 in obligations for CFDA 93.959, covering 445 awards, 71 recipients, and 59 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is geographic reach rather than dollars, lead with 59 states, then the dollar total.

Start with the Block Grants for Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total.

A worked reading of the 93.959 extract

Start from the four packet facts on CFDA 93.959: $10,683,315,492.99 in obligations, 445 awards, 71 recipients, and 59 states. The mean near $24.01 million per award is a quotient from those two packet totals, not a typical unit cost and not a household or client rate. If a later USAspending.gov file adds a few large actions, dollars can jump while 71 recipients barely move. If modifications proliferate, 445 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $10,683,315,492.99.

Nothing in the extract splits BLOCK GRANTS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE into subaccounts, fiscal years, or outlay versus obligation series beyond the stored totals. Those cuts live in other publications. Treat CFDA 93.959 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 445 awards and 71 recipients next to the dollars so the record count is visible beside $10,683,315,492.99. Name the series as obligations, not outlays, every time the figure is reused. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total.

A complete working citation for this listing is $10,683,315,492.99 in USAspending.gov obligations for CFDA 93.959, covering 445 awards, 71 recipients, and 59 states, indexed on SpendingVault. Do not convert 445 awards into a treatment caseload, or 71 recipients into a clinic census. The 59-state field is place-of-performance coding in the assistance extract. Read the BLOCK GRANTS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE hub before inferring a geographic story from the dollar total alone. If a number you expected is missing from $10,683,315,492.99, the usual cause is a different reporting concept rather than a gap in the 445 award rows.

Questions

How much is obligated under substance abuse block grants?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $10,683,315,492.99 in obligations for CFDA 93.959. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a treatment caseload. The same extract lists 445 awards, 71 recipients, and 59 states.

Why does CFDA 93.959 have only 71 recipients?

The indexed recipient count is 71 organizational recipients on 445 awards. Block-grant dollars often sit on a relatively small number of large state actions, which is why $10,683,315,492.99 can coexist with a short recipient list. The 71 figure is a file statistic, not a count of people in care. 59 states are coded for place of performance.

Is the $10.68 billion already spent on treatment?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $10,683,315,492.99 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. Cite CFDA 93.959 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series. The program hub on SpendingVault holds the award rows behind those totals. Keep the series labeled as obligations from USAspending.gov assistance awards; do not swap in an outlay figure from another report.

How many states appear on CFDA 93.959?

The extract codes 59 states for Block Grants for Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every clinic. Those rows still sit under the $10,683,315,492.99 obligation total and the 71-recipient count.