Usaid Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas in District of Columbia

An overseas Catalog number on a DC tag

Keep USAspending rows labeled USAID FOREIGN ASSISTANCE FOR PROGRAMS OVERSEAS whose geography is District of Columbia (DC). One hundred ninety-seven awards remain. They sum to $5,981,913,561. CFDA 98.001 is USAID’s foreign-assistance Catalog number. The extract counts award actions coded to DC, not countries assisted and not District neighborhoods served.

The implied mean is about $30,365,000 per award. That is implementer-vehicle size in a headquarters city, not a typical mission budget in a partner country. Unique countries, unique implementing partners, and unique missions are unpublished.

District of Columbia federal spending is every CFDA on DC. CFDA 98.001 is the national overseas-assistance file. Usaid Foreign Assistance For Programs Overseas in District of Columbia is the overlap. District of Columbia programs and All spending ties are the indexes.

Implementers clustered in Washington often receive 98.001 primes. Country of activity is unpublished. 197 is an action count, not 197 countries.

The District NCIF cell in this slice is one $5,000,000,000 award on 66.957. USAID is 98.001. Both can be Beltway tags. They are not the same program.

Headquarters geography is not destination geography

A DC place-of-performance tag on an overseas-assistance award usually means the prime recipient or managing office is coded to Washington. Activity in another country can still sit in this 197-row cell. Conversely, overseas work awarded to a non-DC implementer would not appear here even if USAID headquarters is in the District.

This is the opposite of a SNAP cell, where the state tag often follows the administering state. Here the tag can follow the Beltway address. Treating $5,981,913,561 as ‘federal aid to D.C. residents’ is a category error.

Other foreign-assistance Catalog numbers (State, Defense humanitarian lines, multilateral contributions) are not 98.001 unless so coded. Do not add them into this cell.

ForeignAssistance.gov and USAID’s own country pages are different systems. Mixing them with this USAspending join without a crosswalk invents a destination table.

Questions

How much USAID overseas assistance is tagged to D.C.?

USAspending.gov shows $5,981,913,561 across 197 awards for CFDA 98.001 with a District of Columbia place-of-performance tag. That is an obligation join, not aid delivered to District residents.

Does this money stay in Washington?

Not necessarily. CFDA 98.001 is foreign assistance for programs overseas. A DC tag often follows the prime implementer’s address. Destination countries are not in this packet.

Is this the District’s domestic aid budget?

No. This join is only 98.001, USAID Foreign Assistance For Programs Overseas, coded to DC. Domestic District programs use other Catalog numbers.

Where is the live D.C. 98.001 table?

Usaid Foreign Assistance For Programs Overseas in District of Columbia. See also District of Columbia federal spending, District of Columbia programs, CFDA 98.001, and All spending ties.