General Services Administration in Iowa

Eighty-four Treasury awards tagged to Iowa

Department of the Treasury as awarding agency, Iowa as place-of-performance: 84 records summing to $3,815,594,590.28. A Department of the Treasury award coded outside IA is out. An award in Iowa from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Iowa (IA) excludes Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and South Dakota. A Rock Island-coded award is Illinois.

Eighty-four awards against $3,815,594,590.28 is a thin, high-mean Treasury file. Fiscal vehicles can mint few rows with large dollars. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 84 as 84 unique individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. The overlay Department of the Treasury in Iowa is the both-keys table. Iowa federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of the Treasury is the agency book without an IA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Des Moines is not a published metro share. Do not treat 84 rows as 84 unique fiscal programs. Correlation is not causation: Iowa did not “cause” $3,815,594,590.28 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 020 × IA only.

Refunds are a different series

$3,815,594,590.28 does not measure individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 020 and an IA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 84 awards as a census of individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Iowa federal spending or Department of the Treasury matched $3,815,594,590.28 and 84, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Illinois, Minnesota, and Nebraska Treasury joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of the Treasury obligated in Iowa?

USAspending.gov records $3,815,594,590.28 across 84 awards with awarding agency 020 and an Iowa tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. Department of the Treasury in Iowa is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,815,594,590.28.

Is $3,815,594,590.28 a measure of individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses?

No. The packet publishes $3,815,594,590.28 and 84 awards for agency 020 inside IA coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this Treasury file have 84 awards?

That is the award-record count for 020 × IA. Combined with $3,815,594,590.28, the average is about $45.42 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 84 is not unique individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of the Treasury in Iowa is the overlay. Iowa federal spending and Department of the Treasury are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $3,815,594,590.28. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.