How much Coronavirus Relief Fund spending is in Iowa?

USAspending.gov shows $1,246,874,359.06 in CFDA 21.019 obligations coded to Iowa across 1 award. The join uses the program number and Iowa place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Why is there only 1 award for $1.25 billion?

CRF state allocations typically posted as a single large Treasury payment to the state. The extract counts 1 record tagged to CFDA 21.019 and Iowa. With one award, the implied mean equals the total: $1,246,874,359.06. Downstream locality transfers are not extra prime awards here.

Is $1.25 billion Iowa’s full federal pandemic spending?

No. $1,246,874,359.06 is only the Coronavirus Relief Fund cell. Other CFDA programs with Iowa place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 21.019 is not limited to Iowa.

Do these obligations equal audited CRF expenditures?

No. $1,246,874,359.06 is an obligation sum. Outlays and Treasury expenditure reports are different series. Locality spending of transferred funds is not listed in this packet.

Coronavirus Relief Fund in Iowa

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CFDA 21.019 — federal program obligations to Iowa

Total obligated

$1.25B

Awards

The Coronavirus Relief Fund (CFDA 21.019) shows $1,246,874,359.06 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to Iowa across 1 award. The pair is a Treasury CARES Act catalog line joined to place of performance, not a ranking of counties by case counts and not a count of small-business grants. Obligations are commitments, not audited expenditure reports. The Iowa × 21.019 overlay holds the row.

Key figures

CFDA 21.019 shows $1,246,874,359.06 in USAspending obligations in Iowa.
Award count is 1; the mean equals the total.
The join is program × place of performance, not a case-count ranking.
Figures are obligations, not outlays.

One prime award carries the Iowa CRF cell

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 21.019 meets Iowa place of performance. The dollar book is $1,246,874,359.06. The award count is 1. CRF allocations to states typically posted as a single large Treasury payment to the state, which then transferred funds to agencies and localities. One prime record does not mean one county spent the money, and it does not mean the pandemic’s peak occurred in a particular hospital catchment.

The join does not prove that Iowa’s population, unemployment spike, or meatpacking-plant geography caused $1,246,874,359.06. Those are other series. This packet has no expenditure-category split. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as Iowa’s full pandemic-assistance book has left the CFDA-by-state definition. Crop Insurance (CFDA 10.450) is a different cell on the same statewide stack. The 1 figure is a record count, not a count of projects.

The implied mean equals the cell

One award under $1,246,874,359.06 implies a mean of $1,246,874,359.06. With a single row, mean and total are the same number. Downstream transfers to cities and counties are not additional prime awards in this extract.

Iowa’s crop-insurance cell posts 29 awards on a different catalog number; do not add CRF and 10.450 from memory. Cite CRF’s own columns. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the total as a typical locality grant.

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Questions

How much Coronavirus Relief Fund spending is in Iowa?: USAspending.gov shows $1,246,874,359.06 in CFDA 21.019 obligations coded to Iowa across 1 award. The join uses the program number and Iowa place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.
Why is there only 1 award for $1.25 billion?: CRF state allocations typically posted as a single large Treasury payment to the state. The extract counts 1 record tagged to CFDA 21.019 and Iowa. With one award, the implied mean equals the total: $1,246,874,359.06. Downstream locality transfers are not extra prime awards here.
Is $1.25 billion Iowa’s full federal pandemic spending?: No. $1,246,874,359.06 is only the Coronavirus Relief Fund cell. Other CFDA programs with Iowa place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 21.019 is not limited to Iowa.
Do these obligations equal audited CRF expenditures?: No. $1,246,874,359.06 is an obligation sum. Outlays and Treasury expenditure reports are different series. Locality spending of transferred funds is not listed in this packet.

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

How this pair fits

Coronavirus Relief Fund federal obligations in Iowa

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