Department of Commerce federal obligations in Ohio

What the Commerce-Ohio join is

Awarding agency 013 and place-of-performance state OH meet here. $1,251,789,192.11 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Commerce's nationwide budget, not Ohio's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Lake Erie port, NIST-lab, and statewide economic-development folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of Ohio exporters.

325 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a few hundred award actions behind a billion-dollar obligation total. A few hundred rows can mix large instruments with smaller grants. The join does not rank Ohio against other states and does not name laboratories or ports inside the extract.

Open Department of Commerce in Ohio for the filtered table, Ohio federal spending for the next hub, Department of Commerce for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

325 Commerce actions under one Ohio filter

Dividing $1,251,789,192.11 by 325 yields about $3,851,659.05 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical export-promotion grant. A second Commerce slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Ohio's 013 total as a synonym for every Commerce bureau account.

Lake erie port, nist-lab, and statewide economic-development folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative's extra columns.

Agency 013 without an Ohio overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Commerce page aggregates 013 without requiring OH geography. The Ohio federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Ohio place of performance. Only Department of Commerce in Ohio applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 325 awards and $1,251,789,192.11.

Place of performance in Ohio is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list OH while later work occurs in Michigan or Pennsylvania. Commerce awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Cleveland. This packet does not split Cleveland from Columbus or Cincinnati.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $1,251,789,192.11 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Ohio over-reads the field.

Award count 325 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Ohio-Commerce overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large Commerce total in Ohio does not mean the agency caused Ohio's industrial mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between manufacturing geography and Commerce awards is expected; it is not a finding about trade policy or waste.

Keep $1,251,789,192.11 labeled as agency 013 obligations with Ohio place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the Ohio-Commerce pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 013 (Department of Commerce), Ohio place of performance, $1,251,789,192.11 in obligations, and 325 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $1,251,789,192.11 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $3,851,659.05 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical export-promotion grant.

Department of Commerce in Ohio, Ohio federal spending, Department of Commerce, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $1,251,789,192.11 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Cleveland-versus-Columbus folklore is not a metro split in this packet. Lab names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has the Commerce Department obligated in Ohio?

USAspending.gov records $1,251,789,192.11 in obligations for awarding agency 013 with Ohio place of performance, covering 325 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Commerce's nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Why are there only 325 Commerce awards in Ohio relative to the dollars?

The extract lists 325 award actions totaling $1,251,789,192.11. Average obligation per award is about $3,851,659.05, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical export-promotion grant. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Cleveland-only Commerce total?

No. $1,251,789,192.11 and 325 awards are statewide Ohio place of performance. This packet does not split Cleveland from Columbus or Cincinnati. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Commerce-Ohio table?

Department of Commerce in Ohio is the overlay. Ohio federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Commerce shows agency 013 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.