National Science Foundation in North Carolina

What the NSF–North Carolina cell actually joins

This tie page is the intersection of awarding agency 049, labeled National Science Foundation, and North Carolina as the USAspending place-of-performance state. The $917,926,485.52 total is the sum of obligations on records that carry both attributes. Drop the state filter and the Foundation’s national profile appears; drop the agency filter and North Carolina’s all-agency spending appears. Neither parent page equals this cell.

One thousand one hundred eighty-three awards is a modest row count next to cabinet departments that post tens of thousands of records in the same state. The dollars still matter as a discrete NSF geography slice. The join does not rank North Carolina against other states, and it does not mean 1,183 separate campuses each received a check.

Readers sometimes treat an NSF geography total as a ranking of university systems. This cell does not do that. The $917,926,485.52 figure is the obligation sum on records tagged awarding agency 049 and place-of-performance NC. It is silent on proposal success rates, overhead rates, and which campuses appear in the recipient field. Those fields are not in the packet facts, so they stay off this page.

Agency 049 as the awarding side

USAspending keys the awarding-agency dimension to numeric codes. This pair is 049. The English label is National Science Foundation. Other science-adjacent agencies (Health and Human Services, Defense, Energy) have their own codes and their own North Carolina ties. Mixing those codes would fold $917,926,485.52 into unrelated cabinets.

The agency hub for 049 shows Foundation awards without a North Carolina constraint. This narrative restates only the 1,183-award, $917.9 million North Carolina cell. Packet facts do not include fiscal years, directorate names, or assistance-versus-contract splits, so those details are omitted here.

Questions

How much NSF funding is obligated in North Carolina?

USAspending records $917,926,485.52 in obligations for awarding agency 049 (National Science Foundation) with North Carolina place of performance, covering 1,183 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for this pair, not an outlay figure and not the Foundation’s national total.

Does this total include every federal science award in North Carolina?

No. The filter is awarding agency 049 only. Health, defense, energy, and other agencies that fund research in North Carolina sit on separate ties. Statewide North Carolina spending is the parent page for the all-agency view.

What does the average NSF award in North Carolina represent?

Dividing $917,926,485.52 by 1,183 awards produces about $776,000 per award. That is a mean of the aggregate, not a median grant, and it mixes whatever award types sit in the USAspending table for this pair.

Are these obligations the same as money already paid out?

No. USAspending obligations are legal commitments. Outlays are later cash movements. This page reports $917,926,485.52 in obligations across 1,183 awards, not a disbursement ledger.