Corporation for National and Community Service federal obligations in Minnesota

A thin CNCS file on Minnesota

Corporation for National and Community Service as awarding agency, Minnesota as place-of-performance: 48 records summing to $309,127,663.52. A Corporation for National and Community Service award coded outside MN is out. An award in Minnesota from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Minnesota (MN) excludes Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Michigan. A Duluth-coded award in Wisconsin is a different cell.

Forty-eight awards against $309,127,663.52 is a thin national-service file. The implied mean is large and is not a typical stipend. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 48 as 48 unique volunteer hours, AmeriCorps member slots, or unique nonprofits. The overlay Corporation for National and Community Service in Minnesota is the both-keys table. Minnesota federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Corporation for National and Community Service is the agency book without an MN filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

ServeMinnesota branding is unpublished. Do not treat 48 rows as 48 unique host sites. Correlation is not causation: Minnesota did not “cause” $309,127,663.52 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 485 × MN only.

AmeriCorps folklore is not a packet field

$309,127,663.52 does not measure volunteer hours, AmeriCorps member slots, or unique nonprofits. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 485 and an MN place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 48 awards as a census of volunteer hours, AmeriCorps member slots, or unique nonprofits. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Minnesota federal spending or Corporation for National and Community Service matched $309,127,663.52 and 48, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Wisconsin, Iowa, and North Dakota CNCS joins are other pairs, not addends.

Minnesota, not a Twin Cities-only map

Place of performance MN is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Minnesota (MN) excludes Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Michigan. A Duluth-coded award in Wisconsin is a different cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

ServeMinnesota branding is unpublished. Do not treat 48 rows as 48 unique host sites. This packet does not split $309,127,663.52 by city, county, or named facility. 48 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Service awards, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $309,127,663.52 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Minnesota confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Minnesota’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 48-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $309,127,663.52. Sharing a state with CNCS does not mean campaign donations funded these awards.

Citing CNCS in Minnesota

Cite USAspending.gov: Corporation for National and Community Service (agency 485) obligated $309,127,663.52 on 48 awards coded to Minnesota. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as volunteer hours, AmeriCorps member slots, or unique nonprofits.

Prefer Corporation for National and Community Service in Minnesota if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Minnesota federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MN. Corporation for National and Community Service is the 485 parent without the MN filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $309,127,663.52.

A usable footnote names Corporation for National and Community Service, Minnesota, $309,127,663.52, and 48. The compact headline $309.1 million is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $6.44 million is $309,127,663.52 divided by 48. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Corporation for National and Community Service obligated in Minnesota?

USAspending.gov records $309,127,663.52 across 48 awards with awarding agency 485 and a Minnesota tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of volunteer hours, AmeriCorps member slots, or unique nonprofits. Corporation for National and Community Service in Minnesota is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $309,127,663.52.

Is $309,127,663.52 a measure of volunteer hours, AmeriCorps member slots, or unique nonprofits?

No. The packet publishes $309,127,663.52 and 48 awards for agency 485 inside MN coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this CNCS file have 48 awards?

That is the award-record count for 485 × MN. Combined with $309,127,663.52, the average is about $6.44 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 48 is not unique volunteer hours, AmeriCorps member slots, or unique nonprofits. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Corporation for National and Community Service in Minnesota is the overlay. Minnesota federal spending and Corporation for National and Community Service are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $309,127,663.52. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.