National Science Foundation in Illinois

NSF and Illinois as a coding pair

This page is a join of two USAspending.gov fields: awarding agency National Science Foundation (code 049) and place-of-performance Illinois. The extract sums to $1,657,901,513.02 on 1,480 awards. Those facts describe a coding intersection. They do not show that National Science Foundation spending caused Illinois outcomes, or that Illinois caused the federal award book.

The pair is not a league table of Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, or Evanston campuses. Correlation of an agency label with a state code is not causation. Place-of-performance can follow a lead campus, a national lab collaborator, or a research contractor. Work tagged to Illinois can involve parties elsewhere, and Illinois work can be coded to another state.

Higher Education R&D survey dollars, citation metrics, and patent counts are other products. Mixing any of those series with $1,657,901,513.02 leaves the USAspending award file. The 1,480 figure counts award records, including modifications present in the extract, not unique people, firms, or facilities.

Fifteen hundred research rows under $1.66 billion

One thousand four hundred eighty awards under a $1.66 billion book is a midsize research tape. Dividing $1,657,901,513.02 by 1,480 awards yields an implied mean near $1,120,204. That quotient is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical award size and not a median. A few large vehicles can pull the average while many smaller rows sit below it.

Volume and dollars are different columns. Cite both 1,480 and $1,657,901,513.02. USAspending.gov is the source. SpendingVault does not recast $1,120,204 as a product schedule or a beneficiary payment.

Later ingests can revise $1,657,901,513.02 and 1,480. This prose is a packet snapshot. The overlay is the live table. If those two disagree, use the overlay. Keep the obligation label so the cell is not read as cash already paid in Illinois.

Questions

How much NSF funding is obligated in Illinois?

USAspending.gov shows $1,657,901,513.02 in National Science Foundation obligations coded to Illinois across 1,480 awards. Awarding-agency 049 and Illinois place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Which universities received the NSF Illinois total?

This packet does not name recipients. $1,657,901,513.02 and 1,480 awards are statewide coding totals. Recipient lists, if needed, belong on the overlay tables, still under the same obligation definition.

What is the average NSF award in Illinois?

The implied mean is about $1,120,204 from $1,657,901,513.02 divided by 1,480 awards. That quotient is blended across grant sizes. The packet has no median and no directorate split.

Are NSF obligations in Illinois the same as research outlays?

No. $1,657,901,513.02 is an obligation sum on 1,480 awards. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and can lag. SpendingVault does not convert this Illinois × NSF cell into cash.