National Science Foundation in Colorado

NSF awards tagged to Colorado

This page is a join of two USAspending.gov fields: awarding agency National Science Foundation (code 049) and place-of-performance Colorado. The extract sums to $2,205,867,029.17 on 1,089 awards. Those facts describe a coding intersection. They do not show that National Science Foundation spending caused Colorado outcomes, or that Colorado caused the federal award book.

The pair is not a league table of Boulder or Fort Collins campuses. Correlation of an agency label with a state code is not causation. Place-of-performance can follow a lead campus, a lab, or a research contractor along the Front Range. Work tagged to Colorado can involve parties elsewhere, and Colorado work can be coded to another state.

Higher Education R&D survey dollars, citation metrics, and patent counts are other products. Mixing any of those series with $2,205,867,029.17 leaves the USAspending award file. The 1,089 figure counts award records, including modifications present in the extract, not unique people, firms, or facilities.

Eleven hundred research rows under $2.21 billion

One thousand eighty-nine awards under a $2.21 billion book is a midsize research tape. Dividing $2,205,867,029.17 by 1,089 awards yields an implied mean near $2,025,590. That quotient is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical award size and not a median. A few large vehicles can pull the average while many smaller rows sit below it.

Volume and dollars are different columns. Cite both 1,089 and $2,205,867,029.17. USAspending.gov is the source. SpendingVault does not recast $2,025,590 as a product schedule or a beneficiary payment.

Later ingests can revise $2,205,867,029.17 and 1,089. This prose is a packet snapshot. The overlay is the live table. If those two disagree, use the overlay. Keep the obligation label so the cell is not read as cash already paid in Colorado.

Questions

How much NSF funding is obligated in Colorado?

USAspending.gov shows $2,205,867,029.17 in National Science Foundation obligations coded to Colorado across 1,089 awards. Awarding-agency 049 and Colorado place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Which universities received the NSF Colorado total?

This packet does not name recipients. $2,205,867,029.17 and 1,089 awards are statewide coding totals. Recipient lists, if needed, belong on the overlay tables, still under the same obligation definition.

What is the average NSF award in Colorado?

The implied mean is about $2,025,590 from $2,205,867,029.17 divided by 1,089 awards. That quotient is blended across grant sizes. The packet has no median and no directorate split.

Are NSF obligations in Colorado the same as research outlays?

No. $2,205,867,029.17 is an obligation sum on 1,089 awards. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and can lag. SpendingVault does not convert this Colorado × NSF cell into cash.