Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency federal obligations

A District supervision agency in a federal award file

CSOSA is a federal agency whose work is geographically concentrated in Washington, D.C. $155,638,459.61 through FY2026 is the USAspending awarding-agency total for CGAC 9553, not the number of people under supervision and not the D.C. Superior Court’s docket. Drug testing, electronic monitoring, facilities, and information-technology contracts can all sit among the 312 awards if they entered the warehouse as federal awards.

Three hundred twelve awards against $155.6 million implies about $498,841 per award. That mid-to-high mean fits a supervision agency that buys operational support rather than issuing thousands of tiny grants. The packet has no median and no split between treatment contracts and office support.

What 312 awards omit

Community supervision is labor-intensive. Community supervision officers’ salaries generally never appear as USAspending awards. The $155,638,459.61 therefore understates CSOSA’s full operating cost if a reader expected the award file to equal the agency budget. It is complete as an award ledger; it is incomplete as a budget encyclopedia.

Recidivism rates, drug-test positivity, and housing outcomes are performance statistics CSOSA publishes elsewhere. They are not columns in this extract. Mixing them with obligation dollars would treat a vendor invoice as if it were a public-safety outcome.

FY2026 cutoff and obligation versus outlay

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year on the packet. The $155,638,459.61 is cumulative through that horizon. Multi-year monitoring or facilities contracts remain in a running total until closed. This is not CSOSA’s FY2026 appropriation by itself.

Outlays are unpublished. Treatment and monitoring contracts can be obligated before services are delivered month by month. Treat the $155.6 million as commitments, not as cash already paid to every vendor.

CGAC 9553

CSOSA rows use awarding-agency code 9553, a four-digit CGAC in this extract. SpendingVault’s /agencies/9553/ path is keyed to it. The District of Columbia Courts use a different code and a different award book. Federal judiciary awards outside D.C. supervision are not inside these 312 rows. Code 9553 is an identifier, not a court docket number.

State tables when the mission is one city

Even a D.C.-focused agency can show obligations attributed to other states if vendors or place-of-performance fields point there. The state table for agency 9553 reports those USAspending geography fields for the 312 awards. A non-D.C. share is not evidence that CSOSA supervises that state’s caseload.

Open the CSOSA agency page for the live $155,638,459.61 total. Use the all-agencies directory to find CGAC 9553. Dollar comparisons to nationwide grant-makers measure different jobs.

Supervision caseloads versus contracted support in the 312 rows

CSOSA publishes supervision statistics for the District of Columbia. Those caseload tables are not the 312 USAspending awards. Electronic monitoring, drug testing, and treatment contracts can sit inside the $155,638,459.61 without telling you how many people were on the caseload that month. A year with a stable caseload can still show a rising obligation stock if a multi-year monitoring vehicle is recorded in FY2026.

Because the mission is geographically concentrated, the state table for agency 9553 can look almost one-sided. Non-D.C. shares still appear when vendors are tagged elsewhere. That is a location-field result, not evidence that CSOSA supervises another state’s docket. Open award-level records for recipient names. The packet does not list them.

Community supervision officers’ pay generally never appears among the 312 rows, so the $155.6 million understates full operating cost. FY2026 is the cutoff, not a sentencing-reform effective date. Use the CSOSA agency page for live tables. Keep CGAC 9553 unmerged with D.C. Courts or the federal judiciary. Outlays on treatment and monitoring contracts can lag the obligation figure as services are delivered month by month.

Housing, employment, and drug-test positivity among people under supervision are performance measures CSOSA publishes elsewhere. They are not the 312 USAspending rows. Mixing a positivity rate with $155,638,459.61 would treat a vendor invoice as if it were a public-safety outcome. This file stays on awarding-agency obligations for CGAC 9553. FY2026 is the cutoff. Use the CSOSA agency page for live tables and the state subdirectory only for award geography.

Pretrial services and post-release supervision can share contracted vendors. The 312 awards do not flag which mission a row supports. The $155,638,459.61 is unsplit through FY2026 for CGAC 9553. A reader who needs that split must use award descriptions on individual records. This roll-up stays a door, not a case-management extract. Refresh the CSOSA agency page after warehouse updates rather than treating the $155.6 million as frozen.

Questions

How much has CSOSA obligated on USAspending?

The Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency shows $155,638,459.61 in obligations through FY2026 across 312 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 9553 is the filter. The total is not a count of people under supervision in the District of Columbia. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 9553 is the source for the current 312-award book.

What is the average CSOSA award?

Dividing $155,638,459.61 by 312 awards yields about $498,841. The packet has no median. Operational support contracts can sit beside smaller purchase orders in the same mean. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What is agency code 9553?

9553 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for CSOSA. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/9553/. District of Columbia Courts and other justice agencies use different codes. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Does $155.6 million include officer salaries?

Generally no. Federal employee pay usually never appears as USAspending awards. The 312-award total is the award ledger through FY2026, not CSOSA’s full operating budget. Outlays are unpublished in this packet. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.