Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories in FY2025
USAspending.gov records $1,115,019,869.97 in obligations for CFDA 15.875, Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories, in fiscal year 2025, across 354 awards. That cell is a Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance code crossed with one federal fiscal year, not a census of territorial governments and not cash already paid. Dividing the two packet facts yields about $3,149,773.64 per award on average — a quotient, not a typical grant. The same program’s published lifetime extract is $3,464,652,420.20 on 1,224 awards.
Key figures
- CFDA 15.875 in FY2025: $1,115,019,869.97 across 354 awards.
- Program-wide extract: $3,464,652,420.20 on 1,224 awards — a larger parent, not an addend.
- Implied mean about $3.15 million per record — a packet quotient, not a typical grant.
- Cite USAspending.gov obligations, not outlays.
What the CFDA 15.875 × FY2025 join is
Program 15.875 and fiscal year 2025 meet here. $1,115,019,869.97 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. An 15.875 award posted to another fiscal year is out. A FY2025 award under a different CFDA is out even if the work sounds territorial. The join does not name recipient governments, islands, or compact jurisdictions. Unique recipients are unpublished.
Three hundred fifty-four awards sit behind that dollar figure. Combined with the program-wide 1,224 awards totaling $3,464,652,420.20, FY2025 is a large slice of the published yearlyTrend, not the entire book. Correlation is not causation: a fiscal-year label did not “cause” $1,115,019,869.97. CFDA 15.875 is the program hub. FY2025 federal spending is the all-program year hub. All programs and All spending ties keep the parents and other pairs in view.
FY2025 versus the program’s published book
$1,115,019,869.97 is 354 records inside a program extract of $3,464,652,420.20 on 1,224 awards. The year cell is not a remainder you can subtract from the program total to recover other years; other fiscal years are simply not this packet. Do not add CFDA 15.875 and FY2025 federal spending into $1,115,019,869.97. Those hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair.
The implied mean near $3,149,773.64 is $1,115,019,869.97 divided by 354. Means are not medians. Modifications and continuations add rows without proving 354 unique projects. This packet does not split the total by territory, agency bureau, or assistance type.
A mid-count file, not a roster of islands
Three hundred fifty-four awards is a mid-count assistance file: thicker than a handful of compact vehicles, thinner than a mass-award campus program. Do not read 354 as 354 distinct territorial governments or 354 development projects. Place-of-performance geography is not published in this packet, so this page does not invent Guam, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands as addends.
CFDA title text names economic, social, and political development of the territories. That label is the catalog heading, not an outcome score. This page does not measure GDP, turnout, or social-service caseloads.
Obligations, not outlays
An obligation is a legal commitment recorded on USAspending.gov. An outlay is a payment. $1,115,019,869.97 is the former. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the cell. Citing the figure as money already spent in the territories over-reads the field. No outlay total appears in this packet.
Keep the fiscal-year tag on every reuse. FY2025 is the federal fiscal year on the award records, not a calendar-year appropriation story this extract can prove.
How to cite the territories program in FY2025
A clean footnote names CFDA 15.875 (Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories), fiscal year 2025, $1,115,019,869.97 in obligations, and 354 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the word obligations. The compact headline $1.12 billion is that same dollar total rounded; it is not a second extract. Prefer CFDA 15.875 if the program table refreshed after an ingest.
FY2025 federal spending still includes every other CFDA tagged to that year. All programs lists sibling assistance codes. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not fold those parents into $1,115,019,869.97. A later ingest can restate the cell without changing the join definition.
Reading the yearlyTrend cell without extra geography
Researchers who want island-by-island totals will not find them in $1,115,019,869.97. The packet publishes a CFDA-by-year sum and two parent extracts: $3,464,652,420.20 on 1,224 awards for the program, and whatever FY2025 federal spending holds for all assistance codes. Those parents are larger by design. Subtracting 354 from 1,224 does not yield a published other-year award table; it only restates that FY2025 is one row in yearlyTrend. Place-of-performance tags, compact jurisdictions, and recipient UEIs are unpublished here, so this page does not reconstruct Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands as addends. If a later ingest adds those cuts, they belong on a different extract, not as invented columns on this join.
A footnote that survives a refresh still names both sides: CFDA 15.875 and fiscal year 2025, $1,115,019,869.97, 354 awards, USAspending.gov, obligations not outlays. The implied mean near $3,149,773.64 remains a quotient. It is useful as a texture cue — mid-count file, large vehicles — and useless as a typical grant. Do not blend this cell with FEC filings, territorial GDP, or census population. Those series are not in the packet. CFDA 15.875, FY2025 federal spending, All programs, and All spending ties stay the four hrefs. Quote them as hubs, not as dollars you can stack onto $1,115,019,869.97.
Questions
- How much did CFDA 15.875 obligate in FY2025?
- USAspending.gov records $1,115,019,869.97 across 354 awards for Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories in fiscal year 2025. That is an obligation join, not an outlay, and not the program’s full published extract of $3,464,652,420.20 on 1,224 awards. Keep both the CFDA and the year when quoting the cell.
- Is $1,115,019,869.97 the entire territories development program?
- No. The program-wide packet facts are $3,464,652,420.20 and 1,224 awards. FY2025 is one yearlyTrend row: 354 awards totaling $1,115,019,869.97. Other years are not this page. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
- Does 354 awards mean 354 territorial governments?
- No. 354 is the award-record count for 15.875 × FY2025. Combined with $1,115,019,869.97, the average is about $3,149,773.64. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications add rows. This packet does not name islands or compact jurisdictions.
- Where is the live table?
- CFDA 15.875 is the program hub. FY2025 federal spending is the year hub. All programs lists other CFDA codes. All spending ties lists other joins. Keep both sides when citing $1,115,019,869.97. Obligations are not outlays.
USAspending.gov CFDA program yearlyTrend by fiscal year. Obligations are not outlays.