Adoption Assistance in Indiana

Indiana paired with CFDA 93.659

CFDA 93.659 is titled ADOPTION ASSISTANCE. Crossed with Indiana place of performance, obligations sum to $489,203,225.56 on 6 awards. The national 93.659 hub includes other states. Indiana’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $489,203,225.56 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of adoptive families in Marion County.

Six awards is a Title IV-E pass-through: adoption assistance often posts as a handful of large state instruments. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $489,203,225.56, 6 awards, IN, and 93.659. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep Adoption Assistance and Indiana together when reading $489,203,225.56.

93.659 is not Foster Care IV-E in Indiana

Foster Care Title IV-E (CFDA 93.658) is a different catalog. Mixing those series into $489,203,225.56 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Indiana, CFDA 93.659, $489,203,225.56, 6 awards. Child counts, subsidy rates, and county names are unpublished.

The catalog title names Adoption Assistance, not a ranking of counties. Dividing $489,203,225.56 by 6 yields about $81.53 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 6 is not a child or family census.

Questions

How much adoption assistance is obligated in Indiana?

USAspending records $489,203,225.56 in CFDA 93.659 obligations with Indiana place of performance on 6 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Adoption Assistance and Indiana together when citing $489,203,225.56.

Does 6 awards mean 6 Indiana adoptions?

6 is a USAspending award-record count, not a child or family census. The implied mean is about $81.53 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 6 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this Indiana’s total federal child-welfare spending?

No. This join is CFDA 93.659 only. Foster care IV-E and other ACF catalogs appear on separate Indiana program pages. Nationwide 93.659 is not limited to Indiana. Obligations of $489,203,225.56 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Adoption Assistance–Indiana table.

Do these obligations equal subsidies paid to families?

No. $489,203,225.56 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 93.659 × IN pair.