Assistance to Firefighters Grant — CFDA 97.044 obligation totals

A $515.7M grant file with 2,873 rows

USAspending.gov attaches $515.7M in obligations to assistance awards tagged 97.044. SpendingVault reprints that catalog total. High row counts on firefighter grants often include many department-level awards rather than a handful of cooperative agreements, but the packet has no size distribution. Do not divide $515.7M by 2,873 and publish the quotient as a typical AFG award. Amount-sort on the hub is the check for a tail of large apparatus grants.

No fiscal year is supplied. The listing title is Assistance to Firefighters Grant; the extract does not split vehicles, PPE, or training inside the $515.7M. This guide will not invent that split. If a department press note cites a different federal total, match the CFDA number before adding that note to $515.7M. Other fire- and EMS-related listings are other catalog rows.

Because 2,873 is a large assistance file, scanning every line is impractical. Filters on the program page — location, recipient name, amount — do the work this rollup cannot. The four-field summary exists to state the catalog total, not to replace the table. Call-volume and ISO ratings are not in the packet.

2,873 awards on 2,543 fire-service recipients

Two thousand five hundred forty-three recipients hold 2,873 awards. The two counts are close, which is compatible with many departments receiving a single recorded award. The packet does not publish that as an official ratio and does not classify the 2,543 as career, volunteer, or combination departments. Award count is a row count; recipient count is distinct identifiers, not a count of firefighters or stations.

A 2,543-recipient list is large enough that search on the program hub is the practical path. Repeat identifiers among the extra award rows mean the same organization received more than one recorded award. Repeat appearance is not a finding about department performance. Apparatus inventories and staffing tables are not in this extract.

51 states on the firefighter-grant extract

The file counts 51 states. USAspending state counts can include the District of Columbia or another jurisdiction treated as a state; the packet does not name which 51 appear. Coverage is wide. Wide coverage is not even coverage. The $515.7M has no per-state split here.

Place of performance for a fire department is often the department’s community. This packet does not say which location field fed the count of 51. Use award-level geography on the hub if a particular city is the question. Do not read 51 as a guarantee that every department in those jurisdictions received an award.

Firefighter-grant obligations are not apparatus outlays

Municipal capital budgets, insurance-service ratings, and mutual-aid run logs are different ledgers. CFDA 97.044’s $515.7M is USAspending assistance-award obligations. Mixing those sources into $515.7M would build a homemade “all fire funding” figure the packet does not support.

Outlays are payments. Obligations are commitments. Vehicle orders can lag the obligation date. This extract does not report outlays or engines delivered. Cite $515.7M as recorded commitments on 2,873 awards. Do not describe the sum as money already in a department’s apparatus fund. This page does not recommend equipment.

Not a combined fire-and-EMS catalog

Other firefighter, SAFER, or EMS listings can sit near 97.044 on the all-programs index because their obligation totals occupy a similar band. Similar scale is not similar purpose. Do not add this $515.7M to a neighboring CFDA. Keep Assistance to Firefighters Grant on its own catalog row.

Opening the 97.044 table

The Assistance to Firefighters Grant program page lists the 2,873 awards and 2,543 recipients behind $515.7M. Filter by location if a state is the question; the 51-state count will not name them. Agency pages are a different USAspending cut; this packet does not name the awarding agency, so the $515.7M stays on the CFDA card. Apparatus inventories remain a different file than this obligation rollup. Cite $515.7M only as the CFDA 97.044 obligation total on SpendingVault.

Questions

How much is obligated under Assistance to Firefighters Grant?

CFDA 97.044 shows $515.7M in USAspending.gov obligations in SpendingVault’s extract. The figure is a commitment total, not outlays and not a count of engines, PPE sets, or firefighters hired. This page does not offer fire-service advice.

How many firefighter-grant awards are in the extract?

The file lists 2,873 awards and 2,543 recipients. The two counts are close. Award count is a row count; recipient count is distinct identifiers. The packet does not classify departments as career or volunteer. USAspending.gov obligations on CFDA 97.044 are recorded commitments, not Treasury outlays.

Does CFDA 97.044 reach every state?

The extract counts 51 states, a figure that can include the District of Columbia. The packet does not name them or split the $515.7M by state, and it does not prove that every department received an award. USAspending.gov obligations on CFDA 97.044 are recorded commitments, not Treasury outlays.

Is $515.7M the amount already spent on fire apparatus?

No. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. The $515.7M on CFDA 97.044 is the obligation total. Vehicle deliveries and local capital budgets are not in this packet. USAspending.gov obligations on CFDA 97.044 are recorded commitments, not Treasury outlays.