Department of State federal obligations in Minnesota

State Department awards tagged to Minnesota

Department of State as awarding agency, Minnesota as place-of-performance: 122 records summing to $65,302,836.48. A Department of State 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 Canada. A Wisconsin-coded award is WI even if a vendor sits in Minneapolis. Awarding agency 019 bureau splits are unpublished on this Minnesota cell.

One hundred twenty-two records against $65,302,836.48 is a thin State Department file, close to Alabama’s 124-row cell. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 122 as 122 unique posts, named missions, or unique contractors. The overlay Department of State in Minnesota is the both-keys table. Minnesota federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of State is the agency book without an MN filter. All spending ties lists other joins. Named contractors are unpublished. Do not treat 122 as unique Minnesota vendors or as a Twin Cities ranking. Correlation is not causation: Minnesota did not cause $65,302,836.48 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 019 × MN only.

Not embassies or unique Twin Cities contractors

$65,302,836.48 does not measure unique posts, named missions, or unique contractors. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 019 and an MN place-of-performance tag. Awarding agency 019 bureau splits are unpublished on this Minnesota cell.

Do not treat 122 awards as a census of unique posts, named missions, or unique contractors. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Minnesota federal spending or Department of State matched $65,302,836.48 and 122, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Wisconsin, Iowa, and North Dakota State Department joins are other pairs, not addends. Place of performance MN is domestic coding. It is not a count of overseas posts.

Minnesota statewide, 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 Canada. A Wisconsin-coded award is WI even if a vendor sits in Minneapolis. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, and the rest of the counties share one MN stamp.

Named contractors are unpublished. Do not treat 122 as unique Minnesota vendors or as a Twin Cities ranking. This packet does not split $65,302,836.48 by city, county, or named facility. 122 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. FEC donation tables do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Thin files still record obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $65,302,836.48 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 122-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 $65,302,836.48. Place of performance MN is domestic coding. It is not a count of overseas posts.

Citing State in Minnesota

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of State (agency 019) obligated $65,302,836.48 on 122 awards coded to Minnesota. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unique posts, named missions, or unique contractors. The pair is the Department of State plus Minnesota, not a foreign-post budget.

Prefer Department of State in Minnesota if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Minnesota federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MN. Department of State is the 019 parent without the MN filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $65,302,836.48. A usable footnote names Department of State, Minnesota, $65,302,836.48, and 122. The compact headline $65.3 million is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $535,269 is $65,302,836.48 divided by 122. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of State obligated in Minnesota?

USAspending.gov records $65,302,836.48 across 122 awards with awarding agency 019 and a Minnesota tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique posts, named missions, or unique contractors. Department of State in Minnesota is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $65,302,836.48.

Is $65,302,836.48 a measure of unique posts, named missions, or unique contractors?

No. The packet publishes $65,302,836.48 and 122 awards for agency 019 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. Keep both keys.

Does 122 State awards mean 122 Minnesota posts?

No. 122 is the award-record count for 019 × MN. Combined with $65,302,836.48, the average is about $535,269. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 122 is not unique posts, named missions, or unique contractors. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live State Dept–Minnesota table?

Department of State in Minnesota is the overlay. Minnesota federal spending and Department of State are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $65,302,836.48. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.