Tribally controlled college assistance in Montana

What the 15.027–Montana join reports

CFDA 15.027 is titled ASSISTANCE TO TRIBALLY CONTROLLED COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. Crossed with Montana place of performance, the obligation sum is $198,416,176.89 on 26 awards. The national 15.027 hub includes other states. Montana’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $198,416,176.89 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of enrolled students in Montana.

Other BIE and Interior education catalogs use different CFDA numbers. Mixing them into $198,416,176.89 would invent a broader education total than this cell contains. Packet facts are $198,416,176.89, 26 awards, MT, and 15.027. Correlation is not causation. Interior Tribal Self-Governance (15.022) is a separate Montana join.

Twenty-six awards are not twenty-six Montana colleges

The facts report 26 award records, not the identity of tribally controlled colleges. A campus can post multiple instruments across modifications. Unique recipients are unpublished. 26 is not a census of Montana tribal colleges.

A simple mean near $7.63 million per award is arithmetic only. The packet publishes no median, no enrollment split, and no year field. Do not annualize $198,416,176.89. Downward modifications, if present in the raw file, are already netted into the supplied total. College names are not invented here.

Montana geography on the 15.027 tag

MT is the place-of-performance code. An award can post to a campus or tribal headquarters address. Awards coded to North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, or Washington stay outside $198,416,176.89 even when a reservation or service area crosses a state line.

Montana federal spending is the all-program parent. 15.027 is one row on Montana programs. $198.4 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Assistance To Tribally Controlled Community Colleges And Universities in Montana for the filtered table, CFDA 15.027 for the catalog without a Montana filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $198,416,176.89.

What tribal-college assistance in Montana does not prove

A large 15.027 total tagged to Montana does not measure graduation rates, enrollment, or construction completed. It does not equal invoices paid. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. The headline remains $198,416,176.89 on 26 awards for Assistance To Tribally Controlled Community Colleges And Universities in Montana.

Keep both sides of the join: Assistance To Tribally Controlled Community Colleges And Universities and Montana, obligations only. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a higher-education story. Campus names are not in the facts.

Using the Montana × 15.027 overlay

The overlay target is the Montana × CFDA 15.027 table. Open the matching overlay when you want the same $198,416,176.89 / 26-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 15.027 drops the Montana filter. Montana federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Montana programs lists other catalogs beside this pair. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to rank Montana, to name contractors, or to treat obligations as cash. The pair is 15.027 plus MT. Obligations of $198,416,176.89 are not outlays. Cite Assistance To Tribally Controlled Community Colleges And Universities together with Montana whenever you reuse $198,416,176.89. 26 remains an award-record count on USAspending.gov. The overlay path is the live table for this 15.027 × MT cell. Later bulk files can restate $198,416,176.89 without changing the join key. Place of performance remains Montana; CFDA remains 15.027. Do not fold Interior self-governance 15.022 into $198,416,176.89. Do not treat 26 as a campus roster.

Limits of the packet facts for Montana 15.027

The packet publishes four numbers and two labels: $198,416,176.89, 26 awards, Montana, and CFDA 15.027 titled Assistance To Tribally Controlled Community Colleges And Universities. It does not publish fiscal year, unique recipients, or outlays. Names of contractors, agencies, and beneficiaries are unpublished and are not invented here.

Researchers who need award-level rows should open the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than stretch $198,416,176.89 into a program evaluation. The join is a filter, not a causal claim. FEC files do not explain the 26 awards. Keep Assistance To Tribally Controlled Community Colleges And Universities named with Montana in every reuse of $198,416,176.89. AwardCount stays 26 until a new ingest revises it. Cite USAspending.gov. Obligations of $198,416,176.89 are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much tribally controlled college assistance is obligated in Montana?

USAspending records $198,416,176.89 in CFDA 15.027 obligations with Montana place of performance across 26 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not a campus census. Keep Assistance To Tribally Controlled Community Colleges And Universities and Montana together when citing $198,416,176.89.

Does 26 awards mean 26 Montana tribal colleges?

No. The facts report 26 award records totaling $198,416,176.89. College names and unique recipients are unpublished. 26 is a record count in an aggregate, not a campus census. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 15.027 × MT pair.

Is this Montana’s total federal tribal-education spending?

No. This join is CFDA 15.027 only. Other Interior education catalogs appear on separate Montana program pages. Nationwide 15.027 is not limited to Montana. Obligations of $198,416,176.89 are not outlays.

Do campaign donations fund Montana tribal-college awards?

No. FEC contribution files and USAspending award files are different datasets. This page reports $198,416,176.89 in 15.027 obligations tagged to Montana. Correlation is not causation. Do not treat donations as the funding source.