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Federal dollars obligated in North Carolina

North Carolina’s USAspending.gov award files show $381.66B in federal obligations for fiscal years 2024 through 2026. SpendingVault indexes 583,283 awards with a North Carolina tag. Dollars sit below Michigan’s $388.89B; the action file sits between Ohio’s 524,221 and Michigan’s 861,129. The $381.66B figure is an obligation sum, not Treasury outlays and not a payment to Raleigh.

Key figures

  • North Carolina obligations total $381.66B for FY 2024–2026.
  • The extract counts 583,283 awards.
  • Action volume sits between Ohio and Michigan; dollars sit below Michigan.
  • Cite USAspending obligations, not Treasury outlays.
  • The North Carolina spending hub holds the live tables.

Three hundred eighty-two billion as a tagged-action total

North Carolina’s $381.66B is the sum of USAspending.gov actions tagged to the state in FY 2024–2026. It is not the state budget and not a single department’s footprint. Place-of-performance rules can pull work performed in North Carolina into the total even when the prime recipient is elsewhere. The reverse also happens.

The North Carolina spending hub is the live table. This overlay does not assign $381.66B to health, defense, or disaster programs, because those splits are not in the packet. Agency pages are the department cut. State comparisons keep the FY clock fixed.

583,283 awards between Ohio and Michigan on count

North Carolina’s 583,283 awards imply an average near $654,000 per action—below Ohio’s dollar class mean wait, Ohio is $398.51B on 524,221, a higher mean around $760,000. North Carolina has more actions against fewer dollars than Ohio, so the implied mean is lower. That comparison uses only packet facts.

Award count is not unique recipients. This packet has no recipient total. Modifications can add rows. Do not convert 583,283 into a vendor headcount.

Keep North Carolina quotes in obligation units

USAspending.gov award files record obligations. Treasury outlays record cash. North Carolina’s $381.66B can include commitments that have not yet paid out or that later deobligate. Treating the figure as cash already delivered in North Carolina uses the wrong definition.

SpendingVault’s source note is the short rule: obligations from award files, not Treasury outlays. If USAspending revises rows, the hub updates. This page is a reading overlay for the published totals.

North Carolina on compare and rankings

State comparisons place $381.66B below Michigan and above Missouri’s $347.86B in this harvest. Per-capita rankings use population, which is not in this packet, so no per-resident North Carolina figure is computed here.

Quote $381.66B with 583,283 awards. The dollar figure alone hides a mid-to-thick action file. The hub holds the live tables behind both numbers.

FY 2024 through FY 2026

Min FY 2024 and max FY 2026 bound the extract. North Carolina’s $381.66B is a three-year stack. FY 2026 can still be incomplete. Keep the year range visible when you reuse the number.

Questions

How much federal spending is obligated in North Carolina?
USAspending.gov award files indexed on SpendingVault show $381.66B in obligations for North Carolina in FY 2024–2026 across 583,283 awards. The total is obligations, not Treasury outlays.
How many federal awards are tagged to North Carolina?
This extract counts 583,283 awards. That is action volume, not unique recipients. A recipient total is not in the packet.
Is $381.66B cash received in North Carolina?
No. Obligations are award commitments. Outlays are cash and can trail or change. This page cites award-file obligations only.
Which fiscal years does the North Carolina total cover?
FY 2024 through FY 2026. The $381.66B figure is a window sum from USAspending.gov award files.

Obligations from USAspending.gov award files indexed on SpendingVault. Not Treasury outlays.