Federal Pell Grant Program in Colorado

The 84.063–Colorado join

CFDA 84.063 is titled FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM. Crossed with Colorado place of performance, obligations sum to $2,682,037,290.97 on 508 awards. The national Federal Pell Grant Program hub includes other states. Colorado’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,682,037,290.97 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not an institution directory or an enrollment file.

508 awards is close to Indiana’s 582-row Pell cell, with an implied mean of about $5.28 million per award. That mean is an institution-year scale, not a typical student Pell amount. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $2,682,037,290.97, 508 awards, CO, and 84.063. Correlation is not causation. Colorado’s 508 Pell rows against $2,682,037,290.97 sit near Indiana’s Pell cell in this slice, still an institution-year scale rather than a student award.

Pell versus other student-aid catalogs

The catalog title names Federal Pell Grant Program. It is not Direct Loans or campus-based aid catalogs. Mixing other catalogs into $2,682,037,290.97 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Colorado, CFDA 84.063, $2,682,037,290.97, 508 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,682,037,290.97 by 508 yields about $5.28 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 508 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Questions

How much Federal Pell Grant Program funding is obligated in Colorado?

USAspending records $2,682,037,290.97 in CFDA 84.063 obligations with Colorado place of performance on 508 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Federal Pell Grant Program and Colorado together when citing $2,682,037,290.97. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 508 awards mean 508 people or contractors?

No. 508 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $5.28 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,682,037,290.97 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $2.68 billion Colorado’s full federal student-aid spend?

No. $2,682,037,290.97 is only the 84.063 × Colorado cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Colorado program pages. Nationwide 84.063 is not limited to Colorado. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 84.063 × CO pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Colorado as better or worse.

Have these Federal Pell Grant Program dollars already been paid?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. This join does not name recipients or contractors. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live Federal Pell Grant Program–Colorado table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.