Federal Transit Formula Grants in Illinois

How 20.507 and Illinois overlap

The $3,084,529,006.75 total is the obligation sum on awards that carry both CFDA 20.507 (FEDERAL TRANSIT FORMULA GRANTS) and Illinois as place of performance. The national formula-grants hub has no Illinois filter. The Illinois spending hub has no CFDA filter. This tie is the overlap.

Sixty-one awards is a thicker instrument list than many statewide blocks in this slice. Urbanized-area formula funds can post multiple awards to designated recipients across a state. The join still does not name those recipients, split Chicago from downstate, or report unlinked trips. Packet facts stop at dollars, award count, state, and CFDA.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $3,084,529,006.75 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 20.507 and IL. The overlay table at the program-in-state path is the same cell rendered as a page; this narrative is the join explained in prose. Nothing here ranks Illinois against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Sixty-one awards totaling $3,084,529,006.75 is a thicker formula list than a 20-award transit cell. The about $50.57 million mean reflects that count. Chicago-area operators and downstate systems can share the IL tag without being named. Capital investment grants are a different CFDA.

Formula grants, not capital investment grants

CFDA 20.507 is the urban formula catalog. New Starts / capital investment grants and rural formula programs use other numbers. Mixing them into $3,084,529,006.75 would overstate this cell. Highway catalogs are separate as well.

Facts on this page: Illinois, CFDA 20.507, $3,084,529,006.75, 61 awards. Fleet size, farebox recovery, and project earmarks are not in the facts. The title names the formula program, not a construction schedule.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $3,084,529,006.75, 61 awards, CFDA 20.507, program title Federal Transit Formula Grants, and geography IL/Illinois. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 61 awards into $3,084,529,006.75 is about $50.57 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Illinois also has voucher and special-education ties. Those dollars are not in $3,084,529,006.75. CFDA 20.507 × IL is formula transit only. Capital investment grants remain a different number.

Questions

How much Federal Transit Formula Grant funding is obligated in Illinois?

USAspending records $3,084,529,006.75 in CFDA 20.507 obligations with Illinois place of performance across 61 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not an outlay and not FTA’s national total.

Is this the same as capital investment grants?

No. This join is CFDA 20.507 only. Capital investment catalogs use a different CFDA number. The $3,084,529,006.75 total does not include those cells.

Why is the average about $50.6 million?

Dividing $3,084,529,006.75 by 61 awards produces about $50.6 million. More instruments pull the mean below programs that post a few statewide awards. The mean is not a median.

Is this Illinois’s total federal spending?

No. The join filters CFDA 20.507 only. Other programs appear on the Illinois programs list and the statewide hub.