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Basic Scientific Research federal obligations in FY2024

Fiscal year 2024 carries $2,476,773,166.15 in USAspending.gov obligations on Basic Scientific Research, CFDA 12.431. 1,636 awards underlie the cell. That figure is a catalog-by-year join, not a campus census, a publication scoreboard, or a classified-program file, and not cash already paid. The program-wide book in this extract is $3,156,765,524.28. USAspending.gov is the source. Correlation is not causation.

Key figures

  • Basic Scientific Research FY2024: $2,476,773,166.15 in USAspending obligations (CFDA 12.431).
  • FY2024 is 78.5% of the program-wide $3,156,765,524.28 book in this extract.
  • The year cell lists 1,636 awards; the program parent lists 2,237.
  • The join is Basic Scientific Research × FY2024, not a campus census, a publication scoreboard, or a classified-program file.
  • Figures are obligations, not outlays.

Basic Scientific Research × FY2024 is CFDA 12.431, not a campus census, a publication scoreboard, or a classified-program file

$2,476,773,166.15 is the obligation sum USAspending.gov attributes to Basic Scientific Research in FY2024 on the yearlyTrend series. It is not the government-wide FY2024 total and not an outlay. The FY cell is 78.5% of the program-wide $3,156,765,524.28 book in this extract. Campaign-finance filings do not fund these USAspending obligations. Do not invent contractors or award recipients; this packet lists none.

Readers sometimes treat a CFDA–year total as a budget Congress passed for a named activity. $2,476,773,166.15 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation rollup tagged to Basic Scientific Research and fiscal year 2024. Cite both sides. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Unpacking the Basic Scientific Research side

The catalog string is BASIC SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. CFDA 12.431 is the program parent without a FY2024 filter. Program-wide obligations $3,156,765,524.28 and 2,237 parent awards describe that parent, not the year cell alone. Confusing this join with Research And Technology Development and other research catalog lines that are not CFDA 12.431 would leave this overlay. Basic Scientific Research is CFDA 12.431. FY2024 is a yearlyTrend year on that listing. Campus names, investigator names, and topic splits are unpublished. Mixing this listing with Research And Technology Development on CFDA 12.910 would invent a combined research total the packet never computed. This page will not invent contractors.

SpendingVault does not grade Basic Scientific Research on outcomes. $2,476,773,166.15 is an obligation sum, not a scorecard. Place-of-performance geography is unpublished here.

Unpacking fiscal year 2024

FY2024 federal spending is the year parent without a CFDA 12.431 filter. FY2024 figures can be incomplete for a current year. Awards that list another fiscal year sit outside this cell. Do not treat $3,156,765,524.28 as the FY2024 headline. Calendar-year statistics are not this time key.

1,636 award records versus 1,636 unique campuses, labs, or research tasks

1,636 year-cell awards are not 1,636 unique campuses, labs, or research tasks. Dividing $2,476,773,166.15 by 1,636 yields about $1,513,920.03, a quotient, not a typical invoice. Modifications can add rows. The parent count 2,237 is an all-year table. Mixing the year dollars with the parent count invents a per-award figure this packet does not publish.

Caveats on Basic Scientific Research obligations in FY2024

An obligation is a commitment. An outlay is a Treasury payment. $2,476,773,166.15 is the commitment figure. The join cannot support a named-lab roster, a principal-investigator directory, or a topic split. Keep the obligation label. If a chart mixes Research And Technology Development and other research catalog lines that are not CFDA 12.431 with CFDA 12.431 in FY2024, the chart has left this join.

Hubs: /programs/12.431/ (CFDA 12.431), /fiscal-years/2024/ (FY2024 federal spending), /programs/ (All programs), /ties/ (All spending ties). None convert this cell into a recipient list. Cite Basic Scientific Research, FY2024, CFDA 12.431, $2,476,773,166.15, 1,636 awards, USAspending.gov, obligations only. Keep Basic Scientific Research and FY2024 on the same line as $2,476,773,166.15. CFDA 12.431 remains the program key; fiscal year 2024 remains the time key. Obligations of $2,476,773,166.15 are not outlays and not a named-lab roster, a principal-investigator directory, or a topic split. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this yearlyTrend cell. Campaign-finance tables do not fund these USAspending obligations. Unique recipients remain unpublished on this program-year join. All programs and All spending ties are larger indexes than this cell. A later USAspending ingest can restate $2,476,773,166.15 without changing CFDA 12.431 or FY2024. Do not invent contractors or award recipients for Basic Scientific Research. The 1,636 year-cell awards are still not 1,636 unique campuses, labs, or research tasks. Keep Basic Scientific Research and FY2024 on the same line as $2,476,773,166.15.

Questions

How much Basic Scientific Research spending is in FY2024?
USAspending.gov records $2,476,773,166.15 in Basic Scientific Research obligations for FY2024 (CFDA 12.431). That is a program × year join, not an outlay and not the government-wide FY2024 total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
Do 1,636 awards mean 1,636 science labs in FY2024?
No. 1,636 is the year-cell award-record count, not 1,636 unique campuses, labs, or research tasks. A mean of about $1,513,920.03 is arithmetic on packet facts, not a typical payment. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
Is $2,476,773,166.15 cash already paid for Basic Scientific Research in FY2024?
No. $2,476,773,166.15 is an obligation aggregate for Basic Scientific Research in FY2024. Outlays, remaining balances, and cash already paid are unpublished on this packet. Keep the obligation label. USAspending.gov remains the source. Keep Basic Scientific Research and FY2024 together when citing $2,476,773,166.15.
Which pages parent Basic Scientific Research FY2024?
CFDA 12.431 is the program parent. FY2024 federal spending is the year parent. All programs lists other CFDA hubs. All spending ties lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes Basic Scientific Research × FY2024 at $2,476,773,166.15.

USAspending.gov CFDA program yearlyTrend by fiscal year. Obligations are not outlays.