Department of Justice federal obligations in Missouri
The Department of Justice–Missouri join on USAspending.gov sums to $687,434,372.61 in obligations. 1,810 award actions carry both the agency 015 tag and the Missouri geography tag. That is not cash already paid, and about $379,798 per award is a mean, not a typical justice-assistance award.
Key figures
- Missouri DOJ overlay: $687,434,372.61, 1,810 awards, agency 015.
- Mean $379,798 is a ratio, not a typical justice-assistance award.
- Statewide tag — does not split St. Louis from Kansas City or Springfield.
- Correlation is not causation.
Missouri place of performance for Department of Justice
Awarding agency 015 and place-of-performance state MO meet here. $687,434,372.61 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Justice's nationwide budget, not Missouri's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. U.s. attorney, prison, and byrne-grant folklore and two-metro and Ozark folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of courthouses.
1,810 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a very long award list beside a large obligation total. A long row list can mix small support payments with larger instruments. The join does not rank Missouri against other states and does not name grantees inside the extract.
Open Department of Justice in Missouri for the filtered table, Missouri federal spending for the next hub, Department of Justice for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.
Award count 1,810 is a record count
Dividing $687,434,372.61 by 1,810 yields about $379,798 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 Missouri'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.
Agency-wide DOJ versus this overlay
The agency-wide Department of Justice page aggregates 015 without requiring MO geography. The Missouri federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Missouri place of performance. Only Department of Justice in Missouri applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 1,810 awards and $687,434,372.61.
Place of performance in Missouri is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list MO while later grant administration occurs in Illinois or Kansas. DOJ awards coded to those places do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in St. Louis. This packet does not split St. Louis from Kansas City or Springfield.
Outlays are a different column
An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $687,434,372.61 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 Missouri over-reads the field.
Award count 1,810 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Missouri–DOJ overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.
Do not treat two-metro and Ozark folklore as packet NAICS
A large DOJ total in Missouri does not mean the agency caused Missouri's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between two-metro and Ozark folklore and DOJ awards is expected; it is not a finding about waste or program quality.
Keep $687,434,372.61 labeled as agency 015 obligations with Missouri 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.
Keep $687,434,372.61 labeled as a join
A clean footnote names awarding agency 015 (Department of Justice), Missouri place of performance, $687,434,372.61 in obligations, and 1,810 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $687,434,372.61 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $379,798 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical justice-assistance award.
Department of Justice in Missouri, Missouri federal spending, Department of Justice, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $687,434,372.61 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. St. Louis-versus-Kansas City 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. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.
Questions
- How much has Department of Justice obligated in Missouri?
- USAspending.gov records $687,434,372.61 in obligations for awarding agency 015 (Department of Justice) with Missouri place of performance, covering 1,810 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Justice's nationwide budget.
- Does this total include every Missouri justice-assistance award?
- The extract lists 1,810 award actions totaling $687,434,372.61. Average obligation per award is about $379,798, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical justice-assistance award. Unique grantees are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.
- Is this a St. Louis-only DOJ total?
- No. $687,434,372.61 and 1,810 awards are statewide Missouri place of performance. This packet does not split St. Louis from Kansas City or Springfield. Awards coded to Illinois or Kansas are outside this cell even if mail is handled in St. Louis.
- Where is the live DOJ–Missouri table?
- Department of Justice in Missouri is the overlay. Missouri 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 the source sites.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.