Department of State (072) federal obligations in Rhode Island

Awarding-agency 072 overlapping Rhode Island

Department of State as awarding agency, Rhode Island as place-of-performance: 45 records summing to $141,051,367. A Department of State award coded outside RI is out. An award in Rhode Island from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Rhode Island (RI) excludes Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. A Providence-coded award with a Massachusetts place-of-performance tag is a different cell.

45 awards against $141,051,367 is a compact foreign-affairs file on a small New England state. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 45 as 45 unique consular workload, diplomatic pouches, or named posts. Department of State in Rhode Island is the both-keys table. Rhode Island federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of State is the agency book without an RI filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

This overlay uses awarding-agency 072, not 019. Shared display names do not merge the codes. Correlation is not causation: Rhode Island did not cause $141,051,367 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 072 × RI only.

Department of State is a label, not a post roster

$141,051,367 does not measure consular workload, diplomatic pouches, or named posts. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 072 and an RI place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 45 awards as a census of consular workload, diplomatic pouches, or named posts. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Rhode Island federal spending or Department of State matched $141,051,367 and 45, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state State Dept. 072 joins are other pairs, not addends.

Rhode Island, not a Providence-only map

Place of performance RI is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Rhode Island (RI) excludes Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. A Providence-coded award with a Massachusetts place-of-performance tag is a different cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not split $141,051,367 by city, county, or named facility. 45 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Campaign-finance filings do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Forty-five rows, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $141,051,367 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Rhode Island confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Rhode Island’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 45 awards 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 $141,051,367. Sharing a geography with Department of State does not mean FEC donations funded these awards.

Citing Department of State in Rhode Island

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of State (agency 072) obligated $141,051,367 on 45 awards coded to Rhode Island. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as consular workload, diplomatic pouches, or named posts.

Prefer Department of State in Rhode Island if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Rhode Island federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to RI. Department of State is the 072 parent without the RI filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $141,051,367.

A usable footnote names Department of State, Rhode Island, $141,051,367, and 45. The compact headline $141.1M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $3,134,474.82 is $141,051,367 divided by 45. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

A small state, a distinct awarding-agency code

Rhode Island’s Department of State overlay uses code 072, not 019. Folding it into Michigan’s or Florida’s 019 pages would mix keys. Narragansett Bay and Newport diplomatic folklore are not packet fields. 45 awards remain the published count.

Questions

How much has Department of State obligated in Rhode Island?

USAspending.gov records $141,051,367 across 45 awards with awarding agency 072 and a Rhode Island tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Rhode Island’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is agency 072 the same State Department file as code 019?

No. $141,051,367 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 072 × RI. It does not measure consular workload, diplomatic pouches, or named posts. Those series are not fields on this aggregate. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.

Why does this State Dept. 072 file have 45 awards?

45 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $141,051,367 by 45 yields about $3,134,474.82 as a mean, not a typical project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Where is the live table for Department of State in Rhode Island?

Department of State in Rhode Island is the overlay for both keys. Rhode Island federal spending is the all-agency Rhode Island hub. Department of State is the agency parent. All spending ties indexes other spending ties. Prefer the overlay when both filters must stay on.