Federal Pell Grant Program in Indiana

Indiana’s Pell intersection

CFDA 84.063 is titled FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM. Crossed with Indiana place of performance, obligations sum to $2,953,716,522.08 on 582 awards. The national Federal Pell Grant Program hub includes other states. Indiana’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,953,716,522.08 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not an institution directory or a student census.

582 awards sits between Colorado’s 508-row Pell cell and Michigan’s 881-row cell in this slice. The implied mean of about $5.07 million per award is an institution-year scale, not a typical student Pell amount. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $2,953,716,522.08, 582 awards, IN, and 84.063. Correlation is not causation. Indiana’s 582 Pell rows against $2,953,716,522.08 sit near Colorado’s Pell cell in this slice, still at an institution-year scale rather than a student award.

Pell remains a grant catalog, not a loan

The catalog title names Federal Pell Grant Program. It is not Direct Loans or campus-based aid catalogs. Mixing other catalogs into $2,953,716,522.08 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Indiana, CFDA 84.063, $2,953,716,522.08, 582 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,953,716,522.08 by 582 yields about $5.08 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 582 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Questions

How much Federal Pell Grant Program funding is obligated in Indiana?

USAspending records $2,953,716,522.08 in CFDA 84.063 obligations with Indiana place of performance on 582 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Federal Pell Grant Program and Indiana together when citing $2,953,716,522.08. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 582 awards mean 582 people or contractors?

No. 582 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $5.08 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,953,716,522.08 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $2.95 billion Indiana’s full federal student-aid spend?

No. $2,953,716,522.08 is only the 84.063 × Indiana cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Indiana program pages. Nationwide 84.063 is not limited to Indiana. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 84.063 × IN pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Indiana as better or worse.

Have these Federal Pell Grant Program dollars already been paid?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. This join does not name recipients or contractors. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live Federal Pell Grant Program–Indiana table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.