Colorado’s federal award-obligation total

What $262.83B measures in Colorado

Colorado’s $262.83B is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov awards dated to FY2024–2026. An obligation is a commitment on an award record. It is not an outlay and not a Denver-area or state budget line. SpendingVault does not translate $262.83B into cash already paid.

Keep the two-decimal form. A rounded talking point would leave the indexed file. The matching volume statistic is 240,277 awards. Both figures come from USAspending.gov as published on the Colorado spending hub.

240,277 awards in the Colorado extract

240,277 awards is a record count. Modifications and assistance actions in the source add rows. It is not a unique-recipient roster, and this packet does not publish one. Dollars and rows can move independently.

The Colorado hub shows $262.83B beside 240,277 awards so readers do not infer one from the other. This page does not invent a typical award size from those two totals.

Colorado’s indexed fiscal years

Colorado’s posted numbers combine federal fiscal years 2024, 2025, and 2026. The $262.83B is a window total. It is not a FY2026-only figure and not a calendar-year stack. Federal fiscal years begin on October 1.

USAspending.gov still takes corrections. A later ingest can move $262.83B and 240,277 awards. Cite the current index with the FY2024–2026 label. This packet has no ingest clock.

Colorado’s $262.83B stacks FY2024–2026 obligation amounts from USAspending.gov. That is not a Denver-area or state budget and not a Treasury outlay clock. Federal fiscal years begin on October 1. The 240,277-award count uses the same window. Refreshing the Colorado hub can change both statistics.

Colorado’s 240,277 awards and $262.83B are FY2024–2026 USAspending.gov totals. They are not a Denver-area budget. The Colorado spending hub keeps dollars and rows separate. This packet does not invent a typical award size.

Colorado’s $262.83B and 240,277 awards are FY2024–2026 USAspending.gov totals. Cite both with the obligation label. The Colorado spending hub and related pages do not convert those figures into Denver-area appropriations or Treasury outlays.

Colorado’s $262.83B and 240,277 awards are the FY2024–2026 close. The Colorado spending hub will not relabel them as Denver-area cash or as Treasury outlays.

Keep Colorado’s $262.83B labeled as USAspending.gov obligations on 240,277 awards for FY2024–2026 in every reuse.

Series the Colorado hub does not replace

The Colorado hub is not a catalog of every federal dollar in the state. It is an award-obligation index. Flows that never become USAspending.gov awards sit outside $262.83B. State budget documents remain a separate book.

If a Colorado federal-spending headline disagrees with $262.83B, check the series and the year. Do not force an outlay table onto these 240,277 award rows. Stay with obligations for FY2024–2026.

240,277 awards describe how many records were written, including modifications. $262.83B describes commitments. They are independent columns. Inferring a typical Colorado award from those two facts would invent a number this packet does not include.

If a Colorado headline quotes cash already paid, it is not quoting $262.83B. Keep the obligation label. Agency and comparison pages on this site do the same.

Colorado links on this site

Agency pages, state comparisons, and per-capita rankings branch from the Colorado spending hub. They keep the obligation unit. None recode $262.83B as Treasury outlays or as Colorado’s state budget.

Use those pages when statewide Colorado is too coarse. This packet has no agency mix. The facts to carry forward are $262.83B, 240,277 awards, and FY2024–2026 from USAspending.gov.

The Colorado spending hub does not list every federal dollar that touches the state. It lists award obligations. Agency, comparison, and per-capita pages keep that definition. This packet has no agency mix to quote against 240,277 awards.

Reusing Colorado’s file totals

A usable Colorado citation names $262.83B in federal obligations, FY2024–2026, USAspending.gov award files indexed on SpendingVault, and 240,277 awards. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $262.83B cash outlays.

Side-by-side charts should hold every state to obligations and to FY2024–2026. The Colorado spending hub, agency index, comparison tool, and per-capita rankings all follow that rule.

Cite Colorado as $262.83B in federal obligations for FY2024–2026 from USAspending.gov files indexed on SpendingVault, covering 240,277 awards. Keep two decimals and the obligation word. Do not describe $262.83B as cash outlays.

Questions

How much federal money is obligated in Colorado?

USAspending.gov award files indexed on SpendingVault show $262.83B in obligations for Colorado in FY2024–2026. That is not a Treasury outlay total. The files count 240,277 awards for Colorado in the same window.

Are Colorado’s USAspending dollars outlays?

No. $262.83B is an obligation sum from award files. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury. SpendingVault’s Colorado page does not convert obligations into outlays.

How many federal awards are tagged to Colorado?

240,277 awards appear in the FY2024–2026 index for Colorado. The figure is a record count, not a unique-recipient census.

Does Colorado’s $262.83B cover only FY2026?

No. It combines fiscal years 2024, 2025, and 2026. The packet does not publish a single-year Colorado obligation total.