Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund in Alabama

Alabama x 93.596 is a CCDF matching join, not a slot census

This page pairs CFDA 93.596, CHILD CARE MANDATORY AND MATCHING FUNDS OF THE CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT FUND, with Alabama place of performance. The listing covers mandatory and matching CCDF funds that help states subsidize child care for eligible families, not Head Start and not a discretionary CCDF stream if it uses a different CFDA number. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $535,597,027.21 on 20 awards. The extract does not list providers, children, or counties. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which state subsidizes more care, and not a claim that 20 awards equal 20 agencies.

Other HHS listings — discretionary CCDF, TANF, or Head Start — sit outside $535,597,027.21 unless they also carry 93.596. Mixing matching funds with those codes would invent a combined child-care figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and licensed-slot counts is not causation. Slot counts are not in the packet. Place of performance as Alabama locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $535,597,027.21 in provider bank accounts.

20 awards behind $535.6 million

Mean obligation is about $26,779,851 if $535,597,027.21 were divided evenly across 20 lines. That ratio is not a published grant size. Formula-style CCDF awards often post as a handful of rows to a state lead agency. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations. It is not a count of counties, providers, or children.

Twenty lines are scannable on the overlay. This page will not invent the lead agency name. Open Child Care Mandatory And Matching Funds Of The Child Care And Development Fund in Alabama for the stored table. Do not convert 20 into a map of Alabama child-care centers. The $535,597,027.21 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards, not subsidies issued to families. Inspect named lines rather than inferring a caseload.

Questions

How much CCDF matching funding is obligated in Alabama?

USAspending.gov shows $535,597,027.21 in obligations for CFDA 93.596 with Alabama as place of performance, across 20 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not Alabama's full child-care budget. Other HHS listings are outside this join unless they also carry 93.596.

Do 20 awards mean 20 Alabama child-care agencies?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include annual runs and continuations. It is not an agency, provider, or child census. The packet does not name agencies. See the Alabama 93.596 overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Is this Alabama's entire federal child-care funding?

No. The join is CFDA 93.596, Child Care Mandatory And Matching Funds Of The Child Care And Development Fund, crossed with Alabama place of performance. Discretionary CCDF, Head Start, and TANF use different listings. Those dollars are not inside $535,597,027.21 unless the award also carries 93.596.

Is $536 million already paid to Alabama child-care providers?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $535,597,027.21 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet.