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Head Start in Washington

CFDA 93.600 — federal program obligations to Washington

Total obligated

$1.70B

Awards

145

Head Start (CFDA 93.600) shows $1,646,190,540.99 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to Washington across 140 awards. The pair is an HHS early-childhood catalog line joined to place of performance, not a ranking of Puget Sound counties and not a count of tribal or migrant classrooms. Obligations are commitments, not slot-year drawdowns. The Washington × 93.600 overlay holds the rows.

Key figures

  • CFDA 93.600 shows $1,646,190,540.99 in USAspending obligations in Washington.
  • Award count is 140; implied mean about $11.8 million.
  • The join is program × place of performance, not an enrollment ranking.
  • Figures are obligations, not outlays.

One hundred forty grantee records, one statewide cell

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 93.600 meets Washington place of performance. The dollar book is $1,646,190,540.99. The award count is 140. Head Start commonly posts as many prime grants to community action agencies, school districts, tribal organizations, and related nonprofits. One hundred forty records do not equal 140 centers; continuations and modifications can share the tape.

The join does not prove that Washington’s child-poverty rate, Seattle-area cost of living, or tribal geography caused $1,646,190,540.99. Those are other series. This packet does not split Early Head Start from Head Start. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as Washington’s full HHS obligation book has left the CFDA-by-state definition. TANF (CFDA 93.558) is a different cell on the same stack. The 140 figure is a record count, not a child-enrollment total.

Thicker tape than Arizona’s Head Start cell, similar dollars

One hundred forty awards under $1,646,190,540.99 imply a mean near $11,758,504 per award. Large urban grantees can sit above that average; smaller rural or tribal grants can sit below it. The packet has no median.

A thicker award tape with a similar dollar magnitude to other states’ Head Start cells is a filing pattern, not a judgment about classroom quality. Cite both columns. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a typical center budget.

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Questions

How much Head Start spending is in Washington?
USAspending.gov shows $1,646,190,540.99 in CFDA 93.600 obligations coded to Washington across 140 awards. The join uses the program number and Washington place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.
Does 140 awards mean 140 Head Start centers?
No. The extract counts 140 award records tagged to CFDA 93.600 and Washington. Continuations and modifications can appear as separate records. The implied mean is about $11,758,504 per award from the two packet facts.
Is $1.65 billion Washington’s full federal spending?
No. $1,646,190,540.99 is only the Head Start cell. Other CFDA programs with Washington place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 93.600 is not limited to Washington.
Do these obligations equal cash paid to grantees?
No. $1,646,190,540.99 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Program-year drawdowns can lag the obligation.

USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.

How this pair fits

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