Federal Transit Formula Grants in Massachusetts

Formula transit meeting Massachusetts

CFDA 20.507 (FEDERAL TRANSIT FORMULA GRANTS) plus Massachusetts place of performance sums to $2,607,078,397 on 51 awards. The national 20.507 hub has no Massachusetts filter. The Massachusetts spending hub has no CFDA filter. This tie is the overlap.

Fifty-one awards is a multi-recipient formula pattern: urbanized-area funds can post several awards to designated recipients rather than one statewide block. The join does not name the MBTA, regional transit authorities, or ridership. Packet facts are $2,607,078,397, 51 awards, MA, and 20.507.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $2,607,078,397 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 20.507 and MA. 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 Massachusetts against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Fifty-one awards totaling $2,607,078,397 (about $51.12 million mean) is FTA formula assistance tagged MA. Capital investment grants are a different catalog. MBTA and regional authorities are not named. Commuter trips into New Hampshire or Rhode Island do not move those states’ awards into this cell.

20.507 is not every transit or research dollar

Capital investment grants use a different CFDA. HHS research catalogs in Massachusetts are unrelated. Mixing either into $2,607,078,397 would overstate this cell. Highway programs sit on other pages as well.

Facts here: Massachusetts, CFDA 20.507, $2,607,078,397, 51 awards. Unlinked trips, farebox recovery, and vehicle-age statistics are not in the facts. The title names the formula program, not a capital plan.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $2,607,078,397, 51 awards, CFDA 20.507, program title Federal Transit Formula Grants, and geography MA/Massachusetts. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 51 awards into $2,607,078,397 is about $51.12 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Massachusetts research and housing cells are large in federal tables. They are not transit. $2,607,078,397 is 20.507 × MA. Capital investment grants use a different catalog, not this page.

Questions

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

USAspending records $2,607,078,397 in CFDA 20.507 obligations with Massachusetts place of performance across 51 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not an outlay and not FTA’s national total.

Does this include capital investment grants?

No. This join is CFDA 20.507 only. Capital investment catalogs use a different CFDA number. The $2,607,078,397 total does not include those cells.

What is the average award?

About $51.1 million ($2,607,078,397 ÷ 51). The mean is not a typical vehicle purchase and not a median.

Is this Massachusetts’s total federal spending?

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