How much Higher Education Institutional Aid is obligated in Alabama?

USAspending.gov shows $386,077,256 in obligations for CFDA 84.031 with Alabama as place of performance, across 64 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not Alabama’s full higher-education budget. Other Education listings are outside this join unless they also carry 84.031.

Do 64 awards mean 64 Alabama colleges received grants?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. It is not a campus or student census. The packet does not name institutions. See the Alabama 84.031 overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Does this include Pell Grants in Alabama?

No. This page is CFDA 84.031, Higher Education Institutional Aid. Pell and other student-aid programs use different CFDA numbers. Those dollars are not inside $386,077,256 unless the award also carries 84.031. The extract has no enrollment table.

Is $386 million already spent on Alabama campuses?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $386,077,256 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Project draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet.

Higher Education Institutional Aid in Alabama

Name: Higher Education Institutional Aid federal funding in Alabama
Creator: SpendingVault
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CFDA 84.031 — federal program obligations to Alabama

Total obligated

$386.1M

Awards

Higher Education Institutional Aid (CFDA 84.031) shows $386,077,256 in USAspending.gov obligations with Alabama as place of performance. Sixty-four awards carry that total. The join is an Education Department Title III/V-style listing crossed with a state location field, not Alabama’s entire higher-education budget and not a census of campuses. The dollars are commitments, not Treasury outlays.

Key figures

CFDA 84.031 in Alabama shows $386,077,256 in USAspending obligations on 64 awards.
Sixty-four awards are project-style rows, not a campus or student census.
The join is institutional aid plus Alabama place of performance, not Pell or WIC dollars.
The total is commitments, not campus bills already paid.

Alabama x 84.031 is an institutional-aid join, not a campus census

This page pairs CFDA 84.031, HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONAL AID, with Alabama place of performance. The listing, in program language, strengthens eligible institutions — including historically Black colleges and universities and other developing institutions — through institutional grants. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $386,077,256 on 64 awards. The extract does not list campuses, enrollment, or grant activities. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which state has more eligible institutions, and not a claim that 64 awards equal 64 colleges.

Other Education listings — Pell Grants, Title I K-12, or different postsecondary codes — sit outside $386,077,256 unless they also carry 84.031. Alabama’s WIC and child-support joins on this slice are USDA and HHS overlays, not Education subsets. Mixing institutional aid with Pell would invent a combined higher-education figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and enrollment is not causation. Enrollment figures are not in the packet. Place of performance as Alabama locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $386,077,256 in the state treasury.

64 awards behind $386.1 million

Mean obligation is about $6,032,457.13 if $386,077,256 were divided evenly across 64 lines. That ratio is not a published grant size and not a cost per student. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of campuses, systems, or students.

Sixty-four lines are scannable on the overlay. This page will not invent campus names. Open Higher Education Institutional Aid in Alabama for the stored table. Do not convert 64 into a map of Alabama colleges. The $386,077,256 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards, not activities already completed. Inspect named lines rather than inferring enrollment.

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Questions

How much Higher Education Institutional Aid is obligated in Alabama?: USAspending.gov shows $386,077,256 in obligations for CFDA 84.031 with Alabama as place of performance, across 64 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not Alabama’s full higher-education budget. Other Education listings are outside this join unless they also carry 84.031.
Do 64 awards mean 64 Alabama colleges received grants?: No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. It is not a campus or student census. The packet does not name institutions. See the Alabama 84.031 overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.
Does this include Pell Grants in Alabama?: No. This page is CFDA 84.031, Higher Education Institutional Aid. Pell and other student-aid programs use different CFDA numbers. Those dollars are not inside $386,077,256 unless the award also carries 84.031. The extract has no enrollment table.
Is $386 million already spent on Alabama campuses?: Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $386,077,256 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Project draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet.

USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.

How this pair fits

Higher Education Institutional Aid federal funding in Alabama

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