Federal Pell Grant Program in Tennessee

Tennessee’s Pell cell

CFDA 84.063 is titled FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM. Crossed with Tennessee place of performance, obligations sum to $2,723,974,754.46 on 842 awards. The national Federal Pell Grant Program hub includes other states. Tennessee’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,723,974,754.46 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a campus ranking or a student census.

842 awards is close to Michigan’s 881-row Pell cell, with an implied mean of about $3.24 million per award. That mean is 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 $2,723,974,754.46, 842 awards, TN, and 84.063. Correlation is not causation. Tennessee’s 842 Pell rows against $2,723,974,754.46 sit near Michigan’s Pell cell in this slice, still an institution-year scale rather than a student award.

Pell is not a state-grant catalog

The catalog title names Federal Pell Grant Program. It is not Direct Loans or campus-based aid. Mixing other catalogs into $2,723,974,754.46 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Tennessee, CFDA 84.063, $2,723,974,754.46, 842 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,723,974,754.46 by 842 yields about $3.24 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 842 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.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 Tennessee?

USAspending records $2,723,974,754.46 in CFDA 84.063 obligations with Tennessee place of performance on 842 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Federal Pell Grant Program and Tennessee together when citing $2,723,974,754.46. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 842 awards mean 842 people or contractors?

No. 842 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $3.24 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,723,974,754.46 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $2.72 billion Tennessee’s full federal student-aid spend?

No. $2,723,974,754.46 is only the 84.063 × Tennessee cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Tennessee program pages. Nationwide 84.063 is not limited to Tennessee. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 84.063 × TN pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Tennessee 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–Tennessee table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.