Federal Pell Grant Program in Arizona 3rd District (AZ-03)
Place-of-performance AZ-03 crossed with Federal Pell Grant Program (CFDA 84.063) records $3,587,934,785.92 in USAspending.gov obligations on 56 awards. Fifty-six Pell awards equal about twenty-seven percent of AZ-03's district obligation total — an education-assistance file, not a student headcount. That pair is Federal Pell Grant Program and Arizona 3rd District (AZ-03) — not Arizona's entire federal inflow, not Federal Pell Grant Program nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 26.9% of this district's published obligation total ($13,330,251,579.73). Implied average obligation is about $64,070,264.03 ($3,587,934,785.92 ÷ 56). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Pell Grants in Arizona 3rd District (AZ-03): $3,587,934,785.92 across 56 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $64,070,264.03 per record; district share 26.9% of $13,330,251,579.73.
- CFDA 84.063 × AZ-03 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Arizona 3rd District and CFDA 84.063 if live tables moved.
- Arizona federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $3,587,934,785.92.
Why CFDA 84.063 and AZ-03 share a page
CFDA 84.063 and congressional district AZ-03 meet here. $3,587,934,785.92 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Federal Pell Grant Program's nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Arizona 3rd District (AZ-03), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split public from private campuses and does not publish a student denominator. 56 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a student headcount, a campus census, or a named-institution roster.
Dividing $3,587,934,785.92 by 56 yields about $64,070,264.03 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical award-year maximum or a posted per-student figure. Fifty-six awards against a three-point-six-billion-dollar Pell cell is a compact education file, not 56 named campuses. Do not invent contractors or award recipients. Do not treat AZ-03's 84.063 cell as a synonym for every Pell Grants account nationwide. Quote Arizona 3rd District, CFDA 84.063, Arizona federal spending, and All spending ties as parents, not as addends to $3,587,934,785.92.
Federal Pell Grant Program without a campus roster
USAspending labels CFDA 84.063 as Federal Pell Grant Program. That catalog number produced $3,587,934,785.92 when crossed with Arizona 3rd District (AZ-03) place of performance. The program-wide 84.063 hub does not require AZ-03 geography. The district hub does not require Pell Grants. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 56 awards. The packet does not split public from private campuses and does not publish a student denominator.
Correlation is not causation: Arizona 3rd District (AZ-03) did not cause $3,587,934,785.92 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 84.063 × AZ-03 only. It is not a student headcount, a campus census, or a named-institution roster. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate. New York 12th also hosts a Pell pair in this harvest (105 awards). That NY-12 cell is a different geography. Do not add it to $3,587,934,785.92.
Arizona 3rd District as a geography tag
Arizona 3rd District (AZ-03) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list AZ-03 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Arizona districts belong on those ties even when the CFDA is also 84.063. Arizona 3rd District (AZ-03) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Arizona. Other Arizona districts are separate joins even when they reuse CFDA 84.063.
Arizona federal spending shows how CFDA 84.063 sits beside other programs in the same state extract. $3,587,934,785.92 is one district-program column, not the state table. This packet does not split Arizona 3rd District (AZ-03) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different CFDA stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Federal Pell Grant Program. The district-wide obligation total published here is $13,330,251,579.73; $3,587,934,785.92 is the Pell Grants slice of that denominator.
USAspending commitments on this Pell pair
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $3,587,934,785.92 is that kind of sum for Federal Pell Grant Program inside AZ-03 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same CFDA rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $3,587,934,785.92 as given.
Arizona's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 56-row Pell Grants cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 56 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. 56 is not a count of students, campuses, or award years. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($64,070,264.03) is a concentration statistic, not a typical award-year maximum or a posted per-student figure.
Citing $3,587,934,785.92 without mixing NY-12
Cite USAspending.gov: Federal Pell Grant Program (CFDA 84.063) obligated $3,587,934,785.92 on 56 awards coded to Arizona 3rd District (AZ-03). Name Federal Pell Grant Program and Arizona 3rd District (AZ-03) together. Keep the obligation word. If Arizona 3rd District or CFDA 84.063 has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a student headcount, a campus census, or a named-institution roster. 26.9% of $13,330,251,579.73 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score. Keep Federal Pell Grant Program, Arizona 3rd District (AZ-03), $3,587,934,785.92, and 56 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add parent hubs into this cell.
Fifty-six awards and a 26.9% district share
Fifty-six awards against a three-point-six-billion-dollar Pell cell is a compact education file, not 56 named campuses. A large row count makes a project split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $64,070,264.03) and the district share (26.9% of $13,330,251,579.73) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Arizona 3rd District and CFDA 84.063 if the live tables moved.
Questions
- How much Pell Grants spending is coded to Arizona 3rd District (AZ-03)?
- USAspending.gov lists $3,587,934,785.92 in Federal Pell Grant Program obligations across 56 awards with place of performance in Arizona 3rd District (AZ-03). CFDA 84.063 × AZ-03 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Arizona's complete federal ledger. The cell is 26.9% of the district's published total ($13,330,251,579.73). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $64,070,264.03, a ratio of those two facts only.
- Does $3,587,934,785.92 include every Pell Grants project in AZ-03?
- The packet publishes one CFDA rollup. The packet does not split public from private campuses and does not publish a student denominator. $3,587,934,785.92 is the combined obligation sum for CFDA 84.063 inside AZ-03 coding. This page will not invent a project pie or name contractors. Open CFDA 84.063 and Arizona 3rd District to inspect parent tables. 56 remains an action count, not a count of students, campuses, or award years.
- Is $3,587,934,785.92 cash already paid in Arizona 3rd District (AZ-03)?
- No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $3,587,934,785.92 as checks already cleared in Arizona 3rd District (AZ-03) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 56 awards. Prefer the live district and program hubs if the tables moved.
- Why is the implied average $64,070,264.03 not a typical award?
- The average is $3,587,934,785.92 divided by 56 awards, about $64,070,264.03. Thick files pull the mean down; thin files pull it up. Neither case publishes a typical instrument. Modifications add rows. Recipients are unpublished. Use the ratio only as a concentration statistic, not a typical award-year maximum or a posted per-student figure.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to CFDA program. Obligations are not outlays.