Federal Pell Grant Program in California
CFDA 84.063 — federal program obligations to California
Total obligated
$21.49B
Awards
4K
Thirty-six hundred Pell Grant awards carry a $20.8 billion California book. USAspending.gov records $20,778,288,787.66 in Federal Pell Grant Program (CFDA 84.063) obligations with California place of performance, across 3,626 awards. 3,626 awards against $20.8 billion is a thick assistance cell: many actions stacking into a very large book. Implied mean obligation per award is about $5.73 million. This page is the catalog-program-and-state join, not a student headcount, a tuition-price index, or cash already paid.
Key figures
- CFDA 84.063 in California: $20,778,288,787.66 across 3,626 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $5.73 million per award, not a typical student grant.
- Pell is not SEOG or Work-Study on this page.
- Cite obligations from USAspending.gov; keep both sides of the join.
CFDA 84.063 dollars tagged to California
CFDA 84.063 and geography CA meet in this cell. $20,778,288,787.66 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not the program’s national total, not California’s entire federal inflow, and not an outlay. CFDA 84.063 is the Federal Pell Grant Program, not other Title IV campus-based aid. The pair is the only object this page measures.
3,626 awards sit beside $20,778,288,787.66. 3,626 awards against $20.8 billion is a thick assistance cell: many actions stacking into a very large book. The count can include assistance awards, amendments, and related actions. Treating 3,626 as a roster of students, patients, veterans, or households would misread award records as people. Unique recipients are unpublished on this packet.
Open Federal Pell Grant Program in California for the live overlay, CFDA 84.063 for the program without a state filter, California federal spending for every program coded to the state, California programs for the state program index, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parent tables into $20,778,288,787.66.
Pell Grants, not campus-based Title IV siblings
CFDA 84.063 is the Federal Pell Grant Program, not other Title IV campus-based aid. Sibling catalog numbers stay on other program pages: Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (84.007) and Federal Work-Study (84.033) are different catalog pages. Mixing those dollars into $20,778,288,787.66 would invent a roll-up the packet does not publish. CFDA 84.063 is the only program key on this California tie.
Dividing $20,778,288,787.66 by 3,626 awards yields about $5.73 million per award. That mean is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical benefit check and not a median. Pell folklore can name FAFSA filers; those student counts are not packet fields. Unique institutions are unpublished. The packet has no fiscal-year split and no de-obligation history.
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Questions
- How much has CFDA 84.063 obligated in California?
- USAspending.gov records $20,778,288,787.66 in obligations for CFDA 84.063 with California place of performance, covering 3,626 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the program–state pair, not an outlay figure and not the program’s national total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
- How many Pell Grant awards sit in California?
- The extract lists 3,626 award actions totaling $20,778,288,787.66. A short or long row list can still hold a large dollar total if a few assistance vehicles dominate. Average obligation per award is about $5.73 million, a ratio, not a typical benefit. Unique recipients are not published on this packet.
- Does this include other Title IV campus aid in California?
- No. CFDA 84.063 is the Federal Pell Grant Program only. Other Title IV catalog numbers are separate joins. $20,778,288,787.66 on 3,626 awards is the California place-of-performance cell. Quote Pell and California together and keep the obligation label.
- Where are the parent California and CFDA 84.063 tables?
- Federal Pell Grant Program in California is the live overlay. California federal spending shows every program coded to the state. CFDA 84.063 shows the catalog number without a state filter. California programs is the state program index. All spending ties lists other pairs.
USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.
How this pair fits
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