Federal Pell Grant Program in North Carolina
CFDA 84.063 — federal program obligations to North Carolina
Total obligated
$4.11B
Awards
995
Federal Pell Grant Program (CFDA 84.063) obligations tagged to North Carolina total $4,054,661,470.96 on USAspending.gov across 993 awards. North Carolina’s Pell file is thicker than Virginia’s 807-row cell and thinner than Illinois’s 1,342-row cell. The join is Education’s Pell Catalog number plus an NC place-of-performance tag, not a count of North Carolina undergraduates and not the UNC System’s state appropriation. Nine hundred ninety-three Pell actions place North Carolina between Virginia’s 807-row cell and Illinois’s 1,342-row cell; $4,054,661,470.96 is the NC-tagged 84.063 sum.
Key figures
- North Carolina Pell (CFDA 84.063): $4,054,661,470.96 on 993 USAspending awards.
- The implied mean is about $4,083,200 per award; that is not a typical student Pell grant.
- State appropriations and UNC System budgets sit outside this join.
- Cite obligations, not tuition credited; no award year is in the packet.
- The join is 84.063 × NC, not a college ranking.
Nearly a thousand Pell actions on an NC tag
Keep USAspending rows labeled FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM whose geography is North Carolina (NC). Nine hundred ninety-three awards remain. They sum to $4,054,661,470.96. Pell Grants move through participating institutions. USAspending often records campus-level assistance actions rather than one row per student.
The implied mean is about $4,083,200 per award. That neighborhood sits between Illinois’s lower Pell implied mean and Virginia’s higher one. Matching or mismatching averages describe vehicle mix, not educational quality. Unique students are unpublished. The packet does not name community colleges or universities.
North Carolina federal spending is every CFDA on NC. CFDA 84.063 is Pell nationwide. Federal Pell Grant Program in North Carolina is the overlap. North Carolina programs and All spending ties are the indexes.
Community colleges, UNC campuses, and private participating schools can all mint Pell vehicles. None is named in the facts.
State appropriations to the UNC System are not CFDA 84.063. Mixing them with $4,054,661,470.96 changes datasets.
State aid, the UNC System, and place of performance
North Carolina’s state need-based aid and UNC System appropriations are not CFDA 84.063. Mixing them with $4,054,661,470.96 changes datasets.
An NC tag can follow a campus even when students attend online from other states. North Carolina residents at out-of-state campuses can appear on other 84.063 cells. This total is not a census of North Carolinians receiving Pell.
Direct Loans and campus-based aid sit outside this join. Research grants to universities use other Catalog numbers; they are not Pell.
Online enrollment blurs residency. An NC tag is campus coding, not a census of North Carolinians receiving Pell.
Research grants to universities use other Catalog numbers. They are not Pell.
Full analysis: Federal Pell Grant Program funding in North Carolina →
Questions
- How much Pell Grant funding is obligated in North Carolina?
- USAspending.gov shows $4,054,661,470.96 across 993 awards for CFDA 84.063 tagged to North Carolina. That is an obligation join, not a count of students.
- Does 993 awards mean 993 North Carolina Pell recipients?
- No. Nine hundred ninety-three is an award-action count, often at the institution level. Unique students are not published in this packet.
- Does this include UNC System state funding?
- No. State appropriations are not CFDA 84.063. This join is only the Federal Pell Grant Program with an NC geography tag.
- Where is the live North Carolina Pell table?
- Federal Pell Grant Program in North Carolina. See also North Carolina federal spending, North Carolina programs, CFDA 84.063, and All spending ties.
USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.
How this pair fits
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