How much has National Science Foundation obligated in Alabama?

USAspending.gov records $363,240,463.22 across 502 awards with awarding agency 049 and a Alabama tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Alabama’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.

Why does this NSF file have 502 awards?

502 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $363,240,463.22 by 502 yields about $723,586.58 as a mean, not a typical project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Where is the live table for National Science Foundation in Alabama?

National Science Foundation in Alabama is the overlay for both keys. Alabama federal spending is the all-agency Alabama hub. National Science Foundation is the agency parent. All spending ties indexes other spending ties. Prefer the overlay when both filters must stay on.

National Science Foundation in Alabama

Federal obligations from National Science Foundation to Alabama

Total obligated

$383.7M

Awards

549

National Science Foundation shows $363,240,463.22 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to Alabama, across 502 awards. Awarding-agency 049 and Alabama (AL) are the pair. 502 awards against $363,240,463.22 is a 502-award research-agency file, close to Minnesota’s 533-row NSF join. The implied mean is about $723,586.58 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical invoice. USAspending.gov is the source. Amounts are obligations, not outlays.

Key figures

National Science Foundation obligated $363,240,463.22 in Alabama across 502 awards (USAspending.gov).
The pair is awarding-agency 049 × place-of-performance AL.
Amounts are obligations, not outlays; no fiscal year is in this packet.
The implied mean near $723,586.58 is $363,240,463.22 divided by 502, not a typical award.
The join does not name contractors and does not measure named campuses, principal investigators, or STEM-seat counts.

Foundation 049 meeting Alabama

National Science Foundation as awarding agency, Alabama as place-of-performance: 502 records summing to $363,240,463.22. A National Science Foundation award coded outside AL is out. An award in Alabama from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alabama (AL) excludes Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. A Huntsville-coded award with a Tennessee place-of-performance tag is a different cell.

502 awards against $363,240,463.22 is a 502-award research-agency file, close to Minnesota’s 533-row NSF join. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 502 as 502 unique named campuses, principal investigators, or STEM-seat counts. National Science Foundation in Alabama is the both-keys table. Alabama federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Science Foundation is the agency book without an AL filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Directorates are not split on this aggregate. Do not invent campuses or principal investigators. Correlation is not causation: Alabama did not cause $363,240,463.22 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 049 × AL only.

Campus folklore is unpublished

$363,240,463.22 does not measure named campuses, principal investigators, or STEM-seat counts. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 049 and an AL place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 502 awards as a census of named campuses, principal investigators, or STEM-seat counts. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Alabama federal spending or National Science Foundation matched $363,240,463.22 and 502, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state NSF joins are other pairs, not addends.

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Questions

How much has National Science Foundation obligated in Alabama?: USAspending.gov records $363,240,463.22 across 502 awards with awarding agency 049 and a Alabama tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Alabama’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.
Do 502 NSF awards mean 502 Alabama universities?: No. $363,240,463.22 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 049 × AL. It does not measure named campuses, principal investigators, or STEM-seat counts. Those series are not fields on this aggregate. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
Why does this NSF file have 502 awards?: 502 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $363,240,463.22 by 502 yields about $723,586.58 as a mean, not a typical project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
Where is the live table for National Science Foundation in Alabama?: National Science Foundation in Alabama is the overlay for both keys. Alabama federal spending is the all-agency Alabama hub. National Science Foundation is the agency parent. All spending ties indexes other spending ties. Prefer the overlay when both filters must stay on.

USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.

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National Science Foundation federal obligations in Alabama

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