National Science Foundation in South Carolina
Federal obligations from National Science Foundation to South Carolina
Total obligated
$263.0M
Awards
455
National Science Foundation obligated $249,056,940.22 in South Carolina on USAspending.gov, across 419 awards. The pair is awarding-agency 049 × place-of-performance SC. 419 awards against $249,056,940.22 is a 419-award science-foundation file, thick in records against a $249.1 million cell. About $594,407.97 is the implied mean — $249,056,940.22 divided by 419, not a typical invoice. Cite USAspending.gov. Obligations are not outlays.
Key figures
- National Science Foundation obligated $249,056,940.22 in South Carolina across 419 awards (USAspending.gov).
- The pair is awarding-agency 049 × place-of-performance SC.
- Amounts are obligations, not outlays; no fiscal year is in this packet.
- The implied mean near $594,407.97 is $249,056,940.22 divided by 419, not a typical award.
- The join does not name contractors and does not measure named grants, unique principal investigators, or publication counts.
Foundation 049 meeting South Carolina
National Science Foundation as awarding agency, South Carolina as place-of-performance: 419 records summing to $249,056,940.22. A National Science Foundation award coded outside SC is out. An award in South Carolina from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. South Carolina (SC) excludes North Carolina and Georgia. A Rock Hill-coded award with a North Carolina place-of-performance tag is a different cell.
419 awards against $249,056,940.22 is a 419-award science-foundation file, thick in records against a $249.1 million cell. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 419 as 419 unique named grants, unique principal investigators, or publication counts. National Science Foundation in South Carolina is the both-keys table. South Carolina federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Science Foundation is the agency book without an SC filter. All spending ties lists other joins.
Named grants, unique principal investigators, and publication counts stay unpublished. Rhode Island’s NSF overlay is a different pair. Correlation is not causation: South Carolina did not cause $249,056,940.22 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 049 × SC only.
NSF is not a publication census
$249,056,940.22 does not measure named grants, unique principal investigators, or publication counts. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 049 and an SC place-of-performance tag.
Do not treat 419 awards as a census of named grants, unique principal investigators, or publication counts. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If South Carolina federal spending or National Science Foundation matched $249,056,940.22 and 419, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state NSF joins are other pairs, not addends.
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Questions
- How much has National Science Foundation obligated in South Carolina?
- USAspending.gov records $249,056,940.22 across 419 awards with awarding agency 049 and a South Carolina tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not South Carolina’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.
- Does $249.1 million count South Carolina publications?
- No. $249,056,940.22 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 049 × SC. It does not measure named grants, unique principal investigators, or publication counts. Those series are not fields on this aggregate. The join is a catalog intersection, not an outcome score. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
- Why does this South Carolina NSF file have 419 awards?
- 419 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $249,056,940.22 by 419 yields about $594,407.97 as a mean, not a typical project and not a median. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not invent contractor names. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
- Where is the live table for National Science Foundation in South Carolina?
- National Science Foundation in South Carolina is the overlay for both keys. South Carolina federal spending is the all-agency South Carolina hub. National Science Foundation is the agency parent. All spending ties indexes other spending ties. Prefer the overlay when both filters must stay on.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.
How this pair fits
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