USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas — CFDA 98.001

What $113.99 billion on 4,192 awards records

Assistance listing 98.001 is titled USAID FOREIGN ASSISTANCE FOR PROGRAMS OVERSEAS in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $113,989,352,896.23. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $113,989,352,896.23 as cash already delivered overseas mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

4,192 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $113,989,352,896.23 by 4,192 produces a mean near $27.2 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical country program and not a per-capita aid figure. Overseas assistance can mix large implementer awards with smaller actions, which is why the mean is not a typical grant size.

1,290 recipients and only 30 states

CFDA 98.001 lists 1,290 recipients and 30 states against 4,192 awards. Recipient count is organizational recipients stored on assistance rows—implementers, not a census of foreign beneficiaries. 1,290 is not a headcount of partner-country households. The 30-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count in the USAspending state field. For an overseas listing, that field often reflects U.S. place-of-performance or headquarters coding, not every host country.

Thirty states is a narrower domestic geography than many domestic assistance listings show. That is a file fact for 98.001, not a claim that aid reached 30 countries. The $113,989,352,896.23 total still sits on 4,192 awards. Cite the 30-state count as coded geography, not as a country tally.

Obligations versus foreign-aid outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $113,989,352,896.23 figure for CFDA 98.001 can include multi-year implementer commitments that will disburse later. ForeignAssistance.gov pipelines, USAID operational accounts, and a single fiscal year’s foreign-operations appropriation are different publications. This page does not translate the obligation total into those series.

If a number you expected is missing—especially a host-country table—the usual cause is a different reporting concept. Start from the obligation definition, then open the 98.001 program page. Do not stretch 4,192 awards or 1,290 recipients into a country results score.

What the 98.001 tables omit

The USAID overseas-assistance hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a host-country results file, not a beneficiary roster, and not a diplomatic scorecard. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $113,989,352,896.23. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 4,192 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 30 states is a coding field. A U.S.-coded implementer can dominate a cell while work occurs abroad. Read the program page before any state split, and do not treat 30 states as 30 partner countries.

How to cite CFDA 98.001

A complete citation is $113,989,352,896.23 in obligations for CFDA 98.001, covering 4,192 awards, 1,290 recipients, and 30 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is implementer volume rather than dollars, lead with 1,290 recipients and 4,192 awards, then the dollar total.

Start with the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is a programming recommendation.

A worked reading of the 98.001 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $113,989,352,896.23, 4,192 awards, 1,290 recipients, and 30 states under CFDA 98.001. The mean near $27.2 million is a quotient, not a typical country program. If a later USAspending.gov file adds implementer actions faster than dollars, 4,192 can rise while the dollar book barely moves. If a few giant awards post, $113,989,352,896.23 can jump without a matching jump in 1,290 recipients.

Nothing in the extract splits humanitarian accounts from development accounts, or host countries from U.S.-coded implementer headquarters. The 30-state count is USAspending geography coding, not a partner-country tally. Treat CFDA 98.001 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the USAID overseas-assistance page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 1,290 recipients and 30 states next to the dollars.

Readers comparing CFDA 98.001 across extracts should keep the 4,192-award count, the 1,290-recipient count, and the 30-state geography in the same sentence as $113,989,352,896.23. Dropping the 30-state fact invites a false country tally. SpendingVault’s program hub is the place to verify that the current file still carries those four packet facts.

Questions

How much is obligated under USAID overseas assistance CFDA 98.001?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $113,989,352,896.23 in obligations for CFDA 98.001. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a country-by-country aid score. The same extract lists 4,192 awards, 1,290 recipients, and 30 states.

Do the 30 states mean aid went to 30 countries?

No. The 30-state count is place-of-performance geography in the USAspending.gov state field for CFDA 98.001, often U.S. coding on implementer awards. It is not a host-country tally. The $113,989,352,896.23 total still sits on 4,192 awards and 1,290 organizational recipients. Cite CFDA 98.001 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

Are the 1,290 recipients foreign beneficiaries?

The 1,290 figure is organizational recipients stored on assistance rows, not a census of people overseas. Award volume is 4,192 records. The $113,989,352,896.23 total is an obligation sum. This page does not convert those recipients into a beneficiary headcount. Cite CFDA 98.001 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

Does the USAID total include money already spent abroad?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $113,989,352,896.23 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 4,192-award count is a record tally, not a count of overseas disbursements. Cite CFDA 98.001 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.