Adoption Assistance in Kansas

Five Kansas rows on CFDA 93.659

CFDA 93.659 is titled ADOPTION ASSISTANCE. Crossed with Kansas place of performance, obligations sum to $139,038,557 on 5 awards. The national 93.659 hub includes other states. Kansas’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $139,038,557 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of adoptive families in Kansas.

five awards is a thin Title IV-E assistance file with five large instruments. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $139,038,557, 5 awards, KS, and 93.659. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep Adoption Assistance and Kansas together when reading $139,038,557.

Adoption assistance, not Foster Care IV-E

Foster Care Title IV-E (CFDA 93.658) is the sibling Kansas child-welfare catalog. Mixing 93.659 and 93.658 would invent a combined adoption-and-foster book. Mississippi 93.659 is a different state key. Mixing those series into $139,038,557 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Kansas, CFDA 93.659, $139,038,557, 5 awards. Agency names, family counts, and county splits are unpublished.

The catalog title names Adoption Assistance, not a ranking of Kansas counties by adoptions. Dividing $139,038,557 by 5 yields about $27.81 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 5 is not an adoptive-family, county, or named-agency census.

Questions

How much Adoption Assistance is obligated in Kansas?

USAspending records $139,038,557 in CFDA 93.659 obligations with Kansas place of performance on 5 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Adoption Assistance and Kansas together when citing $139,038,557. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.

Do 5 awards mean 5 Kansas adoptive families?

5 is a USAspending award-record count, not an adoptive-family, county, or named-agency census. The implied mean is about $27.81 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 5 is a record count, not a person or facility census. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is this the same as Kansas Foster Care Title IV-E?

No. This join is CFDA 93.659 only. Foster Care Title IV-E uses CFDA 93.658 and sits on a separate Kansas program page. Nationwide 93.659 is not limited to Kansas. Obligations of $139,038,557 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Adoption Assistance–Kansas table.

Have these adoption-assistance dollars already been paid to families?

No. $139,038,557 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 × KS pair. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.