National Science Foundation in Massachusetts

NSF and Massachusetts as a coding pair

This tie retains USAspending rows where NSF is the awarding agency and Massachusetts is the place of performance. The dollar total is $2,589,576,327. The award count is 2,279. Those facts describe an intersection in the award file. They do not show that NSF funding caused Massachusetts research output, or that the state’s lab cluster caused NSF’s nationwide budget.

Place-of-performance on research awards often follows a campus, a lab, or a lead institution. Subawards to other states can sit outside this cell even when the science is collaborative. The 2,279 figure counts award records in the extract, not unique principal investigators.

NSF directorate tables, Higher Education R&D survey dollars, and patent counts are other products. They are not this join. A reader who treats $2,589,576,327 as a league table of campuses has left the packet. Recipient names are not facts here; open the overlay if a structured recipient list is required.

Two thousand awards under $2.59 billion

Dividing $2,589,576,327 by 2,279 awards yields an implied mean near $1,136,277. That blended average mixes standard research grants with larger center or facility vehicles. This packet has no directorate split, no median, and no university-level table.

A 2,279-row tape is busier than a cabinet department’s short formula file and thinner than a high-volume loan book. Cite volume and dollars together. USAspending.gov is the source.

Massachusetts research campuses often serve as lead institutions on multi-state collaborations. Lead-institution coding can pull dollars into the 2,279-row Massachusetts cell even when co-investigators sit elsewhere. The reverse is also true. This packet does not net those flows. $2,589,576,327 remains an awarding-agency 049 × Massachusetts place-of-performance sum, not a map of every lab that touched an NSF award.

Questions

How much NSF funding is obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov shows $2,589,576,327 in National Science Foundation obligations coded to Massachusetts across 2,279 awards. Awarding-agency 049 and Massachusetts place of performance define the join. The figure is obligations, not outlays.

Which universities received the NSF Massachusetts total?

This packet does not name recipients. $2,589,576,327 and 2,279 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 Massachusetts?

The implied mean is about $1,136,277 from $2,589,576,327 divided by 2,279 awards. That quotient is blended across grant sizes. The packet has no median and no directorate split.

Are NSF obligations in Massachusetts the same as research outlays?

No. $2,589,576,327 is an obligation sum. Outlays are cash draws and can lag on multi-year awards. SpendingVault does not convert this cell into cash.