Foster Care Title Iv-E in Missouri

Missouri paired with CFDA 93.658

CFDA 93.658 is titled FOSTER CARE TITLE IV-E. Crossed with Missouri place of performance, obligations sum to $454,573,078 on 7 awards. The national 93.658 hub includes other states. Missouri’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $454,573,078 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of foster placements in St. Louis.

Seven awards is a Title IV-E pass-through: foster care often posts as a handful of large state instruments. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $454,573,078, 7 awards, MO, and 93.658. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep Foster Care Title IV-E and Missouri together when reading $454,573,078.

93.658 is not Adoption Assistance in Missouri

Adoption Assistance (CFDA 93.659) is a different catalog. Mixing those series into $454,573,078 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Missouri, CFDA 93.658, $454,573,078, 7 awards. Child counts, placement types, and county names are unpublished.

The catalog title names Foster Care Title IV-E, not a ranking of counties. Dividing $454,573,078 by 7 yields about $64.94 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 7 is not a child or placement census.

Questions

How much Foster Care Title IV-E funding is obligated in Missouri?

USAspending records $454,573,078 in CFDA 93.658 obligations with Missouri place of performance on 7 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Foster Care Title Iv-E and Missouri together when citing $454,573,078.

Does 7 awards mean 7 Missouri placements?

7 is a USAspending award-record count, not a child or placement census. The implied mean is about $64.94 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 7 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this Missouri’s total federal child-welfare spending?

No. This join is CFDA 93.658 only. Adoption assistance and other ACF catalogs appear on separate Missouri program pages. Nationwide 93.658 is not limited to Missouri. Obligations of $454,573,078 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Foster Care Title IV-E–Missouri table.

Do these obligations equal maintenance paid to providers?

No. $454,573,078 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 93.658 × MO pair.