How much has HHS obligated in California?

USAspending.gov records $926,524,907,440 in obligations for awarding agency 075 (Department of Health and Human Services) with place of performance in California. That sum covers 29,109 awards. It is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and it is limited to this agency code and geography pair.

Does $926.5 billion mean HHS spent that much in California?

No. The figure is obligations — legal commitments — on awards tagged to agency 075 and California place of performance. Outlays can differ. Place of performance is a USAspending geography field, not proof that every dollar was disbursed to California vendors or residents.

Why does this page use agency code 075?

The underlying aggregate keys awards by awarding agency code. This join uses 075, labeled Department of Health and Human Services, and 29,109 awards. The code is the filter that produced $926,524,907,440 in California, not an alias for every HHS account.

Is this HHS’s entire budget?

No. The $926,524,907,440 total is only the intersection of agency 075 and California place of performance. Awards the same agency codes to other states, and awards other agencies code to California, sit on their own pages. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Department of Health and Human Services in California

Federal obligations from Department of Health and Human Services to California

Total obligated

$961.70B

Awards

30K

USAspending.gov records $926,524,907,440 in Department of Health and Human Services obligations coded to agency 075 with place of performance in California, spread across 29,109 awards. That pair is an awarding-agency filter crossed with a geography filter, not a national HHS budget and not an outlay figure. Average obligation per award is about $31,829,500, a ratio of those two facts, not a typical grant size.

Key figures

Agency 075 (HHS) shows $926,524,907,440 in California place-of-performance obligations across 29,109 awards.
Average obligation per award is about $31,829,500 ($926,524,907,440 ÷ 29,109).
The number is a USAspending obligation aggregate, not outlays and not the department’s nationwide total.
CA is place of performance, not a claim about who received services.

What the HHS–California join is

This page exists because two USAspending dimensions meet: awarding agency 075, labeled Department of Health and Human Services, and place-of-performance state CA. The headline $926,524,907,440 is the sum of obligations on awards that carry both tags. It is not HHS’s worldwide total, not California’s entire federal inflow, and not a claim that every dollar was spent inside a California ZIP code on the day it was obligated. It is a filter on a public awards table.

The 29,109 award count is equally specific. A small number of large awards can dominate a dollar total even when the row count looks modest. Dividing $926,524,907,440 by 29,109 produces about $31,829,500 per award on average. That average hides the mix of contracts, grants, and other instruments in the underlying file. The join does not rank California against other states, and it does not explain why a particular vendor or grantee sits in the extract.

Open Department of Health and Human Services in California for the filtered table. Open California federal spending for all agencies in the state. Open Department of Health and Human Services for agency 075 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other agency–state pairs.

Agency 075 as the awarding side

USAspending identifies this awarding agency as Department of Health and Human Services under code 075. That code is part of the pair. Readers comparing this page with the agency-wide HHS profile should treat 075 as the filter that produced $926,524,907,440 in California, not as a synonym for every HHS account. Medicare, Medicaid, and research folklore are reasons someone opens this join; they are not packet program codes.

The agency page for 075 aggregates that department’s awards without requiring California geography. The California page aggregates all awarding agencies with CA place of performance. Only the overlay at /states/ca/agencies/075/ applies both filters at once, which is why the tie page cites 29,109 awards rather than either parent table’s full inventory.

Full analysis: HHS federal obligations in California (agency 075) →

Questions

How much has HHS obligated in California?: USAspending.gov records $926,524,907,440 in obligations for awarding agency 075 (Department of Health and Human Services) with place of performance in California. That sum covers 29,109 awards. It is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and it is limited to this agency code and geography pair.
Does $926.5 billion mean HHS spent that much in California?: No. The figure is obligations — legal commitments — on awards tagged to agency 075 and California place of performance. Outlays can differ. Place of performance is a USAspending geography field, not proof that every dollar was disbursed to California vendors or residents.
Why does this page use agency code 075?: The underlying aggregate keys awards by awarding agency code. This join uses 075, labeled Department of Health and Human Services, and 29,109 awards. The code is the filter that produced $926,524,907,440 in California, not an alias for every HHS account.
Is this HHS’s entire budget?: No. The $926,524,907,440 total is only the intersection of agency 075 and California place of performance. Awards the same agency codes to other states, and awards other agencies code to California, sit on their own pages. Original filings remain on the source sites.

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

How this pair fits

HHS federal obligations in California (agency 075)

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