Biological Sciences awarded by National Science Foundation

Biological Sciences overlapping NSF — CFDA 47.074

The pair is Biological Sciences × National Science Foundation. $3,660,743,871 is the obligation aggregate for rows that carry both CFDA 47.074 and awarding-agency 049. The join obligation $3,660,743,871 equals the CFDA program total of $3,660,743,871 in this extract, so this packet does not publish a leftover Biological Sciences slice at a second awarding agency. Correlation is not causation: the join does not prove that National Science Foundation caused Biological Sciences activity, only that USAspending coded the two keys together. It is not a campus biology league table or a named PI roster.

SpendingVault indexes the cell from USAspending.gov. The catalog title on the program side is BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. The agency name on the awarding side is National Science Foundation. Neither label is a contractor, a place of performance, or a fiscal-year stamp — this packet publishes no fiscal year. Cite $3,660,743,871 as obligations on the Biological Sciences–NSF pair.

CFDA 47.074 as the biological sciences side

CFDA 47.074 is the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance identifier for Biological Sciences. The program-wide obligation total in this extract is $3,660,743,871. That figure is a program rollup, not a second headline for the National Science Foundation slice unless the two amounts match. Do not treat $3,660,743,871 as cash Treasury already sent. Investigators, institutions, and proposal titles are unpublished on this packet.

Open CFDA 47.074 at /programs/47.074/ for the program hub. That page is not this join: it can include other awarding agencies if the extract lists them, and it is still obligations rather than outlays. This ties page stays on CFDA 47.074 awarded by agency 049 only.

Agency 049, National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation is awarding-agency 049 on USAspending assistance rows. The agency hub National Science Foundation at /agencies/049/ rolls up every program that agency awards in the index, not only Biological Sciences. Reading $3,660,743,871 as National Science Foundation’s entire book would over-read this cell. The join is one CFDA inside one agency, not a department budget justification.

Do not add Federal Election Commission contribution totals to $3,660,743,871. Campaign-finance receipts and USAspending award obligations are separate public-record systems even when a geography or a calendar year happens to overlap. This packet has no FEC facts.

3,359 awards as a CFDA table, not a lab census

The extract lists 3,359 awards on the Biological Sciences × National Science Foundation table. That is an award-record count, not a census of laboratories. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without naming a new organization. Dividing $3,660,743,871 by 3,359 is not published here as a typical award size, because the packet does not say the rows are comparable.

Department rankings this biology–NSF join cannot support

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $3,660,743,871 is the former. Citing it as cash already cleared on Biological Sciences over-reads the field. The join cannot say that National Science Foundation specialized in Biological Sciences because of a policy success metric this packet omits. Keep $3,660,743,871 labeled as Biological Sciences obligations awarded by National Science Foundation.

Hubs for CFDA 47.074 × agency 049

Open /programs/47.074/ for CFDA 47.074, /agencies/049/ for National Science Foundation, /programs/ (All programs) for other catalog lines, and /ties/ (All spending ties) for other pairs. None of those links convert this cell into a campus biology league table or a named PI roster, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite both sides: Biological Sciences and National Science Foundation, $3,660,743,871, USAspending.gov, obligations only.

Keep the citation narrow: CFDA 47.074 and awarding-agency 049 on USAspending.gov, obligations only, with no invented recipients. Investigators, institutions, and proposal titles are unpublished on this packet.

Biological Sciences at NSF is a pair, not a ranking of programs and not a ranking of agencies. Later bulk files can move the dollars; prefer the live program hub and the National Science Foundation hub when this snapshot and the overlay diverge.

Questions

How much did National Science Foundation award on Biological Sciences?

USAspending.gov records $3,660,743,871 in Biological Sciences obligations awarded by National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074, agency 049) across 3,359 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the pair, not an outlay and not National Science Foundation’s entire book.

Is NSF biological sciences an outlay?

No. $3,660,743,871 is an obligation sum, not an outlay. Payments from the Treasury can lag or differ. This packet has no outlay total for Biological Sciences awarded by National Science Foundation. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Does 3,359 awards mean 3,359 laboratories?

No. 3,359 is an award-record count, not a census of laboratories. Unique recipients and places of performance are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without a new organization. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the CFDA number and the awarding-agency code in the citation.

Which pages parent Biological Sciences and NSF?

/programs/47.074/ is the program parent. /agencies/049/ is the National Science Foundation parent. /programs/ lists programs. /ties/ lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes Biological Sciences × NSF at $3,660,743,871. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.