Adoption Assistance in Maine

How CFDA 93.659 meets Maine

The cell sums award obligations with CFDA 93.659 and a ME place-of-performance tag. $168,394,462.48 is that sum. It is not a ranking of Maine against other states. Campaign-finance tables are a different dataset; FEC donations do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Six awards is a small Title IV-E style file: adoption assistance often posts as a handful of statewide records rather than a child-level extract. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $168,394,462.48, 6 awards, ME, and 93.659. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep Adoption Assistance and Maine together when reading $168,394,462.48.

Adoption assistance as a listing, not a family file

CFDA 93.659 is ADOPTION ASSISTANCE. Packet facts on the program side stop at the name Adoption Assistance, the number 93.659, $168,394,462.48, and 6 awards. This packet lists no award recipients and no contractor names. Mixing this listing with other child-welfare catalog lines that use different CFDA numbers would invent a combined total the packet never computed. ADOPTION ASSISTANCE is the catalog title. Six awards is a small Title IV-E style file: adoption assistance often posts as a handful of statewide records rather than a child-level extract. The join does not convert dollars into adoptions, families, or agencies. Neighbor-state Adoption Assistance joins are other pairs.

Adoption Assistance is not a foster-care twin even though both sit in child-welfare catalogs. This page is only CFDA 93.659 crossed with Maine. Six award records can still sum to $168,394,462.48. The packet does not name children, families, or courts. A 93.659 award tagged to New Hampshire stays outside this Maine cell.

Questions

How much Adoption Assistance funding is obligated in Maine?

USAspending.gov records $168,394,462.48 in CFDA 93.659 obligations with Maine place of performance on 6 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not an adoption census, a family roster, or a named-agency list. Keep Adoption Assistance and Maine together when citing $168,394,462.48.

Do 6 awards mean 6 Maine adoption agencies?

No. 6 is a USAspending award-record count, not 6 adoptions, families, or agencies. The implied mean is about $28,065,743.75 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $168,394,462.48 are not outlays. USAspending.gov remains the source for this 93.659 × ME pair.

Is this Maine’s full federal child-welfare spend?

No. $168,394,462.48 is only the CFDA 93.659 × Maine cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Maine program pages. Nationwide 93.659 is not limited to Maine. Mixing this listing with other child-welfare catalog lines that use different CFDA numbers would invent a larger total.

Where is the live 93.659 × Maine table?

Adoption Assistance in Maine is the overlay at /states/me/programs/93.659/. CFDA 93.659 is /programs/93.659/. Maine federal spending is /states/me/. Maine programs is /states/me/programs/. All spending ties is /ties/. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 93.659 × ME pair. Cite USAspending.gov as the source of this pair.