Department of State federal obligations in California

What the State-California join is

Awarding agency 019 and place-of-performance state CA meet here. $1,247,089,185.40 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of State's nationwide budget, not California's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Consulate, exchange-program, and statewide diplomatic-services folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of California posts.

2,391 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — thousands of award actions behind a billion-dollar obligation total. Thousands of rows can mix large instruments with smaller exchange grants. The join does not rank California against other states and does not name posts inside the extract.

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

2,391 State actions under one California filter

Dividing $1,247,089,185.40 by 2,391 yields about $521,576.41 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical consular contract. A second State slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat California's 019 total as a synonym for every State bureau account.

Consulate, exchange-program, and statewide diplomatic-services 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 019 without a California overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of State page aggregates 019 without requiring CA geography. The California federal spending page aggregates all agencies with California place of performance. Only Department of State in California applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 2,391 awards and $1,247,089,185.40.

Place of performance in California is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list CA while later work occurs overseas or in another state. State awards coded elsewhere do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Los Angeles. This packet does not split Los Angeles from San Francisco or San Diego.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $1,247,089,185.40 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 California over-reads the field.

Award count 2,391 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the California-State overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large State total in California does not mean the agency caused California's international mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between port geography and State awards is expected; it is not a finding about foreign policy or waste.

Keep $1,247,089,185.40 labeled as agency 019 obligations with California 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 California-State pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 019 (Department of State), California place of performance, $1,247,089,185.40 in obligations, and 2,391 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $1,247,089,185.40 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $521,576.41 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical consular contract.

Department of State in California, California federal spending, Department of State, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $1,247,089,185.40 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Los Angeles-versus-San Francisco folklore is not a metro split in this packet. Post 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 State Department obligated in California?

USAspending.gov records $1,247,089,185.40 in obligations for awarding agency 019 with California place of performance, covering 2,391 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of State's nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Does this total include every California consulate contract?

The extract lists 2,391 award actions totaling $1,247,089,185.40. Average obligation per award is about $521,576.41, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical consular contract. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Los Angeles-only State total?

No. $1,247,089,185.40 and 2,391 awards are statewide California place of performance. This packet does not split Los Angeles from San Francisco or San Diego. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live State-California table?

Department of State in California is the overlay. California federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of State shows agency 019 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.