Cardiovascular research in California 50th District (CA-50)
Place-of-performance CA-50 crossed with Cardiovascular Diseases Research (CFDA 93.837) yields $465,094,484.78 in USAspending.gov obligations on 177 awards. One hundred seventy-seven cardiovascular-research awards equal about 1.3% of CA-50’s $36.69 billion district book — an NIH-style file whose share is small because the district denominator is large. That pair is Cardiovascular Diseases Research and California 50th District (CA-50) — not California’s entire federal inflow, not Cardiovascular Diseases Research nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 1.3% of this district’s published obligation total ($36,686,940,294.44). Implied average obligation is about $2,627,652.46 ($465,094,484.78 ÷ 177). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Heart research in California 50th District (CA-50): $465,094,484.78 across 177 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $2,627,652.46 per record; district share 1.3% of $36,686,940,294.44.
- CFDA 93.837 × CA-50 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote California 50th District and CFDA 93.837 if live tables moved.
- California federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $465,094,484.78.
The California 50th District (CA-50) filter on Heart research
CFDA 93.837 and congressional district CA-50 meet here. $465,094,484.78 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Cardiovascular Diseases Research’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to California 50th District (CA-50), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split basic from clinical cardiovascular work and does not name campuses. 177 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a patient census, a hospital roster, or a named-investigator file.
Dividing $465,094,484.78 by 177 yields about $2,627,652.46 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical NIH grant size or a posted per-trial figure. 177 awards is a moderate research file. Investigators remain unpublished. NIAID research uses CFDA 93.855, not this 93.837 cell. Do not treat CA-50’s 93.837 cell as a synonym for every Heart research account nationwide. Open California 50th District for the district table without this program filter, CFDA 93.837 for CFDA 93.837 without the CA-50 filter, California federal spending for every program in the California extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $465,094,484.78.
The Heart research catalog line
USAspending labels CFDA 93.837 as Cardiovascular Diseases Research. That catalog number produced $465,094,484.78 when crossed with California 50th District (CA-50) place of performance. The program-wide 93.837 hub does not require CA-50 geography. The district hub does not require Heart research. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 177 awards. The packet does not split basic from clinical cardiovascular work and does not name campuses.
Correlation is not causation: California 50th District (CA-50) did not “cause” $465,094,484.78 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 93.837 × CA-50 only. It is not a patient census, a hospital roster, or a named-investigator file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.
Reading the CA-50 stamp
California 50th District (CA-50) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list CA-50 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other California districts belong on those ties even when the CFDA is also 93.837. California 50th District (CA-50) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside California. Other California districts are separate joins even when they reuse CFDA 93.837. California 50th District (CA-50) is not California 12th, 34th, or 7th. Those California pairs use HCV, PBRA, and teacher-quality catalog lines.
California federal spending shows how CFDA 93.837 sits beside other programs in the same state extract. $465,094,484.78 is one district-program column, not the state table. This packet does not split California 50th District (CA-50) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different CFDA stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Cardiovascular Diseases Research. The district-wide obligation total published here is $36,686,940,294.44; $465,094,484.78 is the Heart research slice of that denominator.
USAspending obligations on this pair
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $465,094,484.78 is that kind of sum for Cardiovascular Diseases Research inside CA-50 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same CFDA rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $465,094,484.78 as given.
California’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 177-row Heart research cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 177 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. 177 is not a count of trials, labs, or investigators. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($2,627,652.46) is a concentration statistic, not a typical NIH grant size or a posted per-trial figure.
Citing $465,094,484.78 without dropping a join side
Cite USAspending.gov: Cardiovascular Diseases Research (CFDA 93.837) obligated $465,094,484.78 on 177 awards coded to California 50th District (CA-50). Name Cardiovascular Diseases Research and California 50th District (CA-50) together. Keep the obligation word. If California 50th District or CFDA 93.837 has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a patient census, a hospital roster, or a named-investigator file. 1.3% of $36,686,940,294.44 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score. NIDDK research on Pennsylvania 3rd uses CFDA 93.847. Mental-health grants on New York 13th use CFDA 93.242. Do not merge those NIH catalogs into this 93.837 join.
Row count versus dollar concentration
177 awards is a moderate research file. Investigators remain unpublished. NIAID research uses CFDA 93.855, not this 93.837 cell. A large row count makes a project split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $2,627,652.46) and the district share (1.3% of $36,686,940,294.44) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer California 50th District and CFDA 93.837 if the live tables moved.
Questions
- How much Heart research spending is coded to California 50th District (CA-50)?
- USAspending.gov lists $465,094,484.78 in Cardiovascular Diseases Research obligations across 177 awards with place of performance in California 50th District (CA-50). CFDA 93.837 × CA-50 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not California’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 1.3% of the district’s published total ($36,686,940,294.44). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $2,627,652.46, a ratio of those two facts only.
- Does $465,094,484.78 include every Heart research project in CA-50?
- The packet publishes one CFDA rollup. The packet does not split basic from clinical cardiovascular work and does not name campuses. $465,094,484.78 is the combined obligation sum for CFDA 93.837 inside CA-50 coding. This page will not invent a project pie or name contractors. Open CFDA 93.837 and California 50th District to inspect parent tables. 177 remains an action count, not a count of trials, labs, or investigators.
- Is $465,094,484.78 cash already paid in California 50th District (CA-50)?
- No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $465,094,484.78 as checks already cleared in California 50th District (CA-50) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 177 awards. Prefer the live district and program hubs if the tables moved.
- Why is the implied average $2,627,652.46 not a typical award?
- The average is $465,094,484.78 divided by 177 awards, about $2,627,652.46. Thick files pull the mean down; thin files pull it up. Neither case publishes a typical instrument. Modifications add rows. Recipients are unpublished. Use the ratio only as a concentration statistic.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to CFDA program. Obligations are not outlays.