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Geosciences in Colorado

CFDA 47.050 — federal program obligations to Colorado

Total obligated

$1.22B

Awards

258

USAspending.gov records $1,193,742,031 in Geosciences obligations under CFDA 47.050 with place of performance in Colorado, spread across 247 awards. That dollar figure is an obligation sum for one Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number inside one state, not a payment ledger and not Colorado’s full federal footprint. Dividing $1,193,742,031 by 247 awards yields about $4.83 million per award on average. The pair is a join: program 47.050 and state CO.

Key figures

  • Geosciences CFDA 47.050 shows $1,193,742,031 in Colorado place-of-performance obligations on 247 awards.
  • Mean obligation is about $4.83 million per award.
  • The figure is a two-key USAspending join, not Colorado’s full federal total.
  • Obligations are not outlays; FEC filings do not fund this cell.

What this Geosciences–Colorado join is

CFDA 47.050 carries the catalog title Geosciences. Colorado is the place-of-performance state on the matching USAspending rows. $1,193,742,031 is the sum of obligations on records that carry both keys. The Colorado spending hub totals every CFDA in the state. The national Geosciences hub totals every state for 47.050. This page is the overlap, not a ranking of science agencies and not a claim that Colorado’s geology caused the awards.

Two hundred forty-seven awards is a moderate instrument count for a billion-dollar science cell. The mean near $4.83 million is an arithmetic average, not a typical field grant and not a median. Correlation between a research catalog code and a Rocky Mountain state tag is not causation.

CFDA 47.050, not every NSF or earth-science line

The catalog number is 47.050. Mathematical and Physical Sciences sits on a different CFDA. Other National Science Foundation assistance codes are not folded into $1,193,742,031. Mixing those lines would misstate this cell. The packet facts are the obligation total, 247 awards, state CO, and program 47.050. No laboratory roster and no fiscal-year series appear in the facts.

Geosciences as a catalog title describes the assistance type on the award file. It does not prove that every dollar funded a single mountain observatory, a single university, or a single subdiscipline. Place of performance can sit on a campus, a field site, or a statewide stamp that only says Colorado.

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Questions

How much Geosciences funding is obligated in Colorado?
USAspending records $1,193,742,031 in obligations for CFDA 47.050 with Colorado place of performance, covering 247 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for this pair, not outlays.
What is CFDA 47.050?
The catalog title is Geosciences. This page sums only that CFDA number inside Colorado. Other science assistance codes are separate ties and are not included in $1,193,742,031.
What is the average Geosciences award in Colorado?
Dividing $1,193,742,031 by 247 awards produces about $4.83 million per award. That mean is not a median and not a typical single-investigator grant.
Is this all federal spending in Colorado?
No. Only CFDA 47.050 is in this cell. Other programs appear on the Colorado programs index and on other state–program ties.

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

How this pair fits

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