Department of Justice federal obligations in Kansas

The awarding-agency 015 filter plus Kansas

Awarding agency 015 and place-of-performance state KS meet here. $270,520,773.88 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Justice's nationwide budget, not Kansas's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. DOJ in Kansas is a justice-assistance cell, not a courthouse census and not a prison-headcount. U.s. attorney, prison, and byrne-grant folklore and aviation-corridor and plains-agriculture folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of courthouses.

830 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — more than a few hundred rows can mix large instruments with smaller service awards. A long row list can mix small support payments with larger instruments. The join does not rank Kansas against other states and does not name grantees inside the extract. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Open Department of Justice in Kansas for the filtered table, Kansas federal spending for the statewide hub, Department of Justice for the agency hub, and All spending ties for other pairs. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $270,520,773.88.

Mean obligation of about $325,928.64

Dividing $270,520,773.88 by 830 yields about $325,928.64 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical justice-assistance award. A second DOJ slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Kansas's 015 total as a synonym for every Department of Justice bureau account.

U.s. attorney, prison, and byrne-grant 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. Aviation-corridor and plains-agriculture folklore may explain a search path. It does not add dollars.

Place of performance versus DOJ headquarters

The agency-wide Department of Justice page aggregates 015 without requiring KS geography. The Kansas federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Kansas place of performance. Only Department of Justice in Kansas applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 830 awards and $270,520,773.88.

Place of performance in Kansas is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list KS while later grant administration occurs in Missouri or Oklahoma. DOJ awards coded to those places do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Wichita. This packet does not split Wichita from Topeka or Kansas City. Wichita, Topeka, and Kansas City are reader landmarks, not packet subtotals.

The obligation field

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $270,520,773.88 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 Kansas over-reads the field. USAspending.gov is the source named in the packet.

Award count 830 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use Department of Justice in Kansas. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug. Keep the obligation word in every reuse of $270,520,773.88.

What the join is not

A large DOJ total in Kansas does not mean the agency caused Kansas's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between aviation-corridor and plains-agriculture folklore and DOJ awards is expected; it is not a finding about waste or program quality. No performance metric is in the packet.

Keep $270,520,773.88 labeled as agency 015 obligations with Kansas place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. Do not claim that donations paid for $270,520,773.88 in Kansas. No contractor names are in the packet, and none are invented.

Citing $270,520,773.88 without over-reading it

A clean footnote names awarding agency 015 (Department of Justice), Kansas place of performance, $270,520,773.88 in obligations, and 830 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $270,520,773.88 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $325,928.64 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical justice-assistance award.

Department of Justice in Kansas, Kansas federal spending, Department of Justice, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $270,520,773.88 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Wichita-versus-Topeka folklore is not a metro split in this packet. Grantees names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Correlation is not causation. DOJ in Kansas is a justice-assistance cell, not a courthouse census and not a prison-headcount.

Questions

What does USAspending show for DOJ in Kansas?

USAspending.gov records $270,520,773.88 in obligations for awarding agency 015 (Department of Justice) with Kansas place of performance, covering 830 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Justice's nationwide budget.

Can I treat the mean as a typical DOJ award?

The extract lists 830 award actions totaling $270,520,773.88. Average obligation per award is about $325,928.64, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical justice-assistance award. Unique grantees are not published here. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is place of performance the same as a Wichita mailing address?

No. $270,520,773.88 and 830 awards are statewide Kansas place of performance. This packet does not split Wichita from Topeka or Kansas City. Awards coded to Missouri or Oklahoma are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Wichita.

Where should I go next from this DOJ join?

Department of Justice in Kansas is the overlay. Kansas federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Justice shows agency 015 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.