Federal Pell Grant Program in Michigan

Michigan’s Pell cell on USAspending

CFDA 84.063 is titled FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM. Crossed with Michigan place of performance, obligations sum to $3,122,352,914.76 on 881 awards. The national Federal Pell Grant Program hub includes other states. Michigan’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $3,122,352,914.76 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a campus list or a FAFSA applicant count.

881 awards is a denser institution-scale file than Utah’s Pell cell in this slice, with a lower implied mean of about $3.54 million per award. That mean is still an institution-year scale, not a typical student Pell amount. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $3,122,352,914.76, 881 awards, MI, and 84.063. Correlation is not causation. Michigan’s 881 Pell rows against $3,122,352,914.76 are denser than Utah’s Pell cell in this slice and still not a student-level file.

Pell versus other Education Department catalogs

The catalog title names Federal Pell Grant Program. It is not Direct Loans, work-study, or SEOG (those are different catalogs). Mixing other catalogs into $3,122,352,914.76 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Michigan, CFDA 84.063, $3,122,352,914.76, 881 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $3,122,352,914.76 by 881 yields about $3.54 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 881 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Questions

How much Federal Pell Grant Program funding is obligated in Michigan?

USAspending records $3,122,352,914.76 in CFDA 84.063 obligations with Michigan place of performance on 881 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Federal Pell Grant Program and Michigan together when citing $3,122,352,914.76. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 881 awards mean 881 people or contractors?

No. 881 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $3.54 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $3,122,352,914.76 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $3.12 billion Michigan’s full federal higher-education spend?

No. $3,122,352,914.76 is only the 84.063 × Michigan cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Michigan program pages. Nationwide 84.063 is not limited to Michigan. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 84.063 × MI pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Michigan as better or worse.

Have these Federal Pell Grant Program dollars already been paid?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. This join does not name recipients or contractors. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live Federal Pell Grant Program–Michigan table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.