Disaster Grants (Public Assistance) in Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05)
USAspending.gov records $3,504,216,781.01 in Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) (CFDA 97.036) obligations with place of performance in Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05), across 6 awards. Six assistance rows against a multi-billion Public Assistance book is a short list of large vehicles, not six storms. The pair is about 9.8% of the district’s $35,808,517,228.83 all-program obligation total in this extract. The dollars are obligations, not outlays.
Key figures
- Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) in Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05): $3,504,216,781.01 across 6 awards.
- About 9.8% of the district’s $35,808,517,228.83 all-program obligation total.
- Average obligation per award is about $584,036,130.17 (ratio only).
- The join is CFDA 97.036 × Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05) place of performance, not a ranking of which district was hit hardest.
- Figures are USAspending obligations, not outlays.
MA-05 × 97.036 is a Public Assistance join, not a storm ranking
This page is a join: Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) and Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05). $3,504,216,781.01 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both the CFDA 97.036 tag and congressional-district place of performance MA-05. It is not Massachusetts’s statewide Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) book, not the nationwide program total, and not a ranking of which district was hit hardest. Massachusetts 5th District is the district parent. CFDA 97.036 is the program parent. Correlation is not causation.
6 is an award-action count. Modifications can add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished, and this page will not invent contractors. Dividing $3,504,216,781.01 by 6 yields about $584,036,130.17 per award, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical debris-removal invoice or a typical declared event. FEC contribution tables do not fund these USAspending obligations. Public Assistance reimburses eligible government and certain private-nonprofit work after a presidential declaration. This page does not convert that catalog title into a local damage survey.
Presidentially declared PA without an IHP overlay
The official catalog title is DISASTER GRANTS - PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (PRESIDENTIALLY DECLARED DISASTERS). SpendingVault does not grade Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05) on Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters), backlog, or policy. $3,504,216,781.01 is an obligation sum, not a verdict. CFDA 97.036 without the district filter is the national hub; this packet has no national total, so none is quoted. Individual and Households (97.048) or hazard-mitigation listings remain outside $3,504,216,781.01.
FEMA Public Assistance project worksheets, disaster declarations, and state EMA dashboards are other series. They are not the 6 awards on USAspending.gov. Mixing a census from those files with this join would invent a per-unit dollar figure the packet does not support. Nor’easter and municipal-recovery folklore is ordinary speech, not a packet field. IHP on 97.048 is a sibling overlay. Mixing PA with household aid would invent a combined disaster total.
Massachusetts 5th District besides disaster grants
Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05) is the geography side. Place of performance MA-05 is a coding field in the award file. It does not prove residency of beneficiaries, students, patients, or vendors. Massachusetts federal spending is the statewide parent and includes other districts. Inner-suburban Boston geography is a speech habit, not a packet field. Place-of-performance MA-05 is a coding tag. A Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) award tagged to MA-06 or MA-07 is not here.
The district’s all-program obligation total is $35,808,517,228.83. $3,504,216,781.01 is the Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) slice of that book, about 9.8%. Remaining district dollars sit with other CFDAs on Massachusetts 5th District, not inside this join. Quoting $3,504,216,781.01 as Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05)’s entire federal book would drop every other catalog line.
Six awards behind the MA-05 Public Assistance total
6 awards against $3,504,216,781.01 implies about $584,036,130.17 per award. That mean is not a unit price and not a typical debris-removal invoice or a typical declared event. Large public-assistance awards and amendments can dominate dollars while the row count stays at 6. 6 rows can include continuations and amendments. Treat the count as records in an aggregate, not as 6 finished projects or 6 people. All spending ties lists other district-by-program pairs on the same obligation metric.
Commitments versus debris invoices already paid
An obligation is a recorded commitment. An outlay is a payment from the Treasury. $3,504,216,781.01 is the commitment figure. This packet has no outlay total and no fiscal-year split, so none is invented. Citing the figure as cash already spent in Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05) over-reads the field. Do not rank Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05) as a winner or loser versus other districts. Keep both sides in the citation: Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) (CFDA 97.036) and Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05).
Budget documents from the district’s Middlesex communities and Massachusetts appropriations answer other questions. They are not the source of this cell. If a chart mixes General Fund activity with CFDA 97.036 in MA-05, the chart has left the federal award series. The inner-suburban belt northwest of Boston did not receive $3,504,216,781.01 as a named metro in this packet.
How to cite the 97.036 × MA-05 pair
Cite: Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) (CFDA 97.036) obligated $3,504,216,781.01 on 6 awards coded to Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05), per USAspending.gov. Keep both keys. Keep the word obligations. Open Massachusetts 5th District for the district rollup, CFDA 97.036 for the program rollup, Massachusetts federal spending for Massachusetts statewide spending, and All spending ties for other pairs. Later bulk files can move the dollars and the 6-award count; prefer those tables when the live overlay and this snapshot diverge. None of those links convert this cell into a ranking of which district was hit hardest, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list.
Questions
- How much CFDA 97.036 is obligated in Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05)?
- USAspending.gov records $3,504,216,781.01 in CFDA 97.036 obligations with Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05) place of performance across 6 awards. That is a program × district join, not an outlay and not Massachusetts’s full federal total.
- Do 6 awards mean 6 local disaster-events?
- No. 6 is an award-action count and can include modifications. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $584,036,130.17 per award, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical debris-removal invoice or a typical declared event.
- Is this Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05)’s entire federal spending total?
- No. $3,504,216,781.01 is only the Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) slice tagged to Massachusetts 5th District (MA-05), about 9.8% of the district’s $35,808,517,228.83 all-program total. Massachusetts federal spending is the statewide parent. Other CFDAs on Massachusetts 5th District sit outside this join.
- Where are the live MA-05 and CFDA 97.036 tables?
- Massachusetts 5th District is the district parent. CFDA 97.036 is the CFDA 97.036 hub. Massachusetts federal spending is the Massachusetts parent. All spending ties lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes 97.036 × MA-05 at $3,504,216,781.01.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to CFDA program. Obligations are not outlays.