Coronavirus Relief Fund obligations in Washington

Three awards, one program–state cell

The pair reported here is CFDA 21.019 (CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND) crossed with Washington as place of performance. $2,169,691,672.34 is the obligation sum on records that match both keys. The national 21.019 program page includes every state. The Washington spending page includes every CFDA. This tie is the intersection only.

Three awards is an extremely concentrated count. Formula-style Treasury relief often posts a small number of large assistance awards to a state or its subunits rather than a long list of local invoices. The join still does not identify the three recipients, the award IDs, or the fiscal years of those records; those fields are absent from the packet facts.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $2,169,691,672.34 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 21.019 and WA. The overlay table at the program-in-state path is the same cell rendered as a page; this narrative is the join explained in prose. Nothing here ranks Washington against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Three awards totaling $2,169,691,672.34 (about $723.23 million mean) is CRF tagged WA. The same three-award silhouette appears in other states’ 21.019 cells; this page only reports Washington State. Housing and transit catalogs are not part of $2,169,691,672.34.

CFDA 21.019 is not every emergency catalog

USAspending catalogs many assistance programs created around the same public-health emergency. CFDA 21.019 is one Treasury line. Provider relief, unemployment, nutrition, housing, and transit catalogs use other numbers and appear on other Washington program pages. Collapsing those catalogs into this $2,169,691,672.34 cell would invent a total the facts do not support.

The facts available on this page are state WA, CFDA 21.019, program name Coronavirus Relief Fund, $2,169,691,672.34 in obligations, and 3 awards. Outlays, clawbacks after the award date, and county maps are not in that list.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $2,169,691,672.34, 3 awards, CFDA 21.019, program title Coronavirus Relief Fund, and geography WA/Washington. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 3 awards into $2,169,691,672.34 is about $723.23 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

CRF is 21.019, not transit capital grants and not housing vouchers. $2,169,691,672.34 on three awards is Treasury relief tagged WA. Calling it “stimulus in Washington” without the CFDA would over-claim the packet.

Washington State geography versus statewide spending

Place of performance WA means USAspending tagged the award to Washington State, not the District of Columbia. It does not itemize Seattle versus rural counties, and it does not prove that every subcontract stayed in-state. Awards tagged to Oregon or Idaho are outside this cell.

The Washington federal spending hub remains the parent for all programs. Treating $2.17 billion as the state’s complete federal footprint would ignore every other CFDA on the Washington programs list.

Place of performance WA is a two-letter code in the award file. It can mark a state capital, a campus, a housing authority, a transit agency, or a default statewide tag. It does not prove where every subcontract ran, and it does not convert $2,169,691,672.34 into a county map. Awards with a different state code are outside this cell even if people, patients, or riders cross the border.

How to read a $723 million mean

About $723.2 million per award ($2,169,691,672.34 ÷ 3) is a mean of three large instruments, not a typical small-business grant. A mean with n = 3 is dominated by whichever award is largest; it is not a median and not a per-resident figure. The aggregate reports net obligations supplied in the facts.

Treat 3 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 3 finished projects. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; the $2,169,691,672.34 figure is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 3 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections.

Using the Coronavirus Relief Fund–Washington overlay

The overlay target for this tie is the Washington × CFDA 21.019 table. Open that path when you want the same $2,169,691,672.34 / 3-award cell in the site’s data chrome. The national program page for CFDA 21.019 drops the Washington filter. The Washington spending hub drops the CFDA filter. The Washington programs index lists other catalogs beside Coronavirus Relief Fund. All spending ties is the directory of other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Washington “won” or “lost” federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. Correlation is not causation. The headline number remains $2,169,691,672.34 on 3 awards, from USAspending.gov, for Coronavirus Relief Fund in Washington.

Limits of the join

A large Treasury CFDA total in Washington does not measure how households used the funds, and it does not equal cash spent. FEC filings do not finance this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.

Use Coronavirus Relief Fund in Washington for the overlay, CFDA 21.019 for the national catalog, Washington federal spending and Washington programs for the parent tables, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Questions

How much Coronavirus Relief Fund money is obligated in Washington?

USAspending records $2,169,691,672.34 in CFDA 21.019 obligations with Washington place of performance across 3 awards. That figure is an obligation aggregate for this pair, not an outlay and not every emergency-related CFDA in the state.

Is this Washington, D.C.?

No. The state code is WA (Washington State). The $2,169,691,672.34 figure is the 21.019 × WA cell.

Why are there only 3 awards for billions of dollars?

The packet facts show 3 awards totaling $2,169,691,672.34. Treasury relief catalogs often post a few large assistance awards rather than thousands of small ones. The mean is about $723.2 million per award; the facts do not name the recipients.

Are these obligations the same as money spent?

No. USAspending obligations are commitments, not outlays. The $2,169,691,672.34 total is the obligation sum in the aggregate, not a proof of cash disbursed.