Department of the Treasury (014) obligations in Rhode Island
The published join of Department of the Treasury and Rhode Island is $167,953,582.33 across 241 awards on USAspending.gov. Code 014 is the agency key. Correlation is not causation, and $696,902.83 is arithmetic rather than a typical fiscal-service award.
Key figures
- USAspending cell: Treasury × Rhode Island = $167,953,582.33.
- 241 records, about $696,902.83 each as a mean.
- Outlays and fiscal-year splits are unpublished here.
- Agency 014 is the disambiguator versus the agency-020 sibling slug.
- No contractor names in this packet; geography is statewide Rhode Island.
Reading $167,953,582.33 as a two-filter total
Start with the pair, not a story. Department of the Treasury plus Rhode Island is the definition of this page. $167,953,582.33 is the obligation aggregate USAspending.gov reports for that pair. 241 is the accompanying award count. Nothing else in the packet adds a third total.
Behind $167,953,582.33 sit 241 recorded actions. That is a mid-size award list. A long list is not automatically many distinct projects, and a short list is not automatically one project. The packet does not include a unique-award or unique-recipient field.
Open Department of the Treasury in Rhode Island for the filtered table, Rhode Island federal spending for the next hub, Department of the Treasury for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.
Division is not a typical-award study
Keep $696,902.83 labeled as a mean. Do not call it a typical fiscal-service award in Rhode Island. Typical would require a distribution, and the packet has only a sum and a count. The live table remains the overlay.
The source note is unchanged: USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.
Rhode Island geography versus Massachusetts or Connecticut
Department of the Treasury is Department of the Treasury without a state filter. Rhode Island federal spending is Rhode Island without an agency filter. This slug is the intersection. Citing the nationwide Treasury book as if it were Rhode Island's $167,953,582.33 cell is a misread of the join.
No metro split of Providence, Warwick, and Newport is published here. Awards coded to Massachusetts or Connecticut are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Providence. The overlay path already encodes both the state tag and agency 014.
No fiscal year is published in the facts
$167,953,582.33 records commitments tagged to Department of the Treasury and Rhode Island. Payments, recoveries, and cancellations would live in other fields. This extract does not publish those fields.
241 actions can include modifications that change a prior obligation. That is why a record count is not a unique-project census. Use Department of the Treasury in Rhode Island for the live table. Agency 014 is the awarding-agency key stored on that overlay.
Donations do not fund this USAspending cell
The join is descriptive. $167,953,582.33 does not prove that Rhode Island received too much or too little Department of the Treasury money, and it does not prove that Department of the Treasury activity caused local outcomes. No performance metric is in the packet.
Campaign-finance filings do not fund this USAspending cell. Department of the Treasury obligations in Rhode Island and FEC receipts that mention similar words are separate public records. This page does not merge them. Unique bureaus or fiscal vendors are unpublished here, so none are invented.
Closing the loop on agency 014 and RI
Department of the Treasury in Rhode Island remains the place to verify the live rows. All spending ties is an index of joins, not a hidden total that already includes $167,953,582.33. Place-of-performance Rhode Island is statewide; it does not split Providence, Warwick, and Newport. Neighbor-coded activity in Massachusetts or Connecticut stays out even if mail is handled in Providence. Correlation is not causation. Fiscal-service, tax-administration, and debt folklore can be a legitimate research question on another page. Here it is labeled folklore because the packet has no NAICS, CFDA, or program column. Ocean-state, narragansett, and capital-city folklore is the same kind of reader path: useful for search, unused as math. Agency 014 on a different state's overlay is a sibling join, not a remainder that must add to a national Treasury budget on this page. Rhode Island's $167,953,582.33 cell stands alone. Do not subtract it from Department of the Treasury and call the difference 'Rhode Island versus everywhere else' without a published national total in this packet — there is none. Department of the Treasury is the awarding-agency label stored on the Rhode Island overlay; the numeric key is 014. Readers who only remember the short name Treasury still need both the state tag and the agency tag before quoting $167,953,582.33. The 241 figure is not a count of unique bureaus or fiscal vendors and is not a count of distinct Treasury programs. Modifications can add rows without adding new vendors. That is another reason the mean of about $696,902.83 is not a typical fiscal-service award. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. This file copies overlayTarget /states/ri/agencies/014/ and canonicalPath /ties/department-of-the-treasury-in-rhode-island-2/ from the packet. It does not add a fiscal year, a contractor, or an FEC dollar. If the live overlay later disagrees with $167,953,582.33 or 241, trust the table and treat this prose as dated to the extract. Until then, the reusable facts are $167,953,582.33, 241 awards, agency 014, Department of the Treasury, Rhode Island (RI), and the obligation unit.
Questions
- What is the Treasury (014) obligation total for Rhode Island?
- USAspending.gov records $167,953,582.33 in obligations for awarding agency 014 (Department of the Treasury) with Rhode Island place of performance, covering 241 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of the Treasury's nationwide budget. The pair is a join, not a ranking.
- Does this Rhode Island Treasury extract name fiscal vendors?
- The extract lists 241 award actions totaling $167,953,582.33. Average obligation per award is about $696,902.83, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical fiscal-service award. Unique bureaus or fiscal vendors are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.
- Are Massachusetts Treasury awards in this Rhode Island cell?
- No. $167,953,582.33 and 241 awards are statewide Rhode Island place of performance. This packet does not split Providence, Warwick, and Newport. Awards coded to Massachusetts or Connecticut are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Providence. The geography key remains RI.
- Where is the Rhode Island overlay for Treasury agency 014?
- Department of the Treasury in Rhode Island is the overlay. Rhode Island federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of the Treasury shows agency 014 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.