Federal Pell Grant Program in Colorado

The 84.063–Colorado join

CFDA 84.063 is titled FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM. Crossed with Colorado place of performance, obligations sum to $2,682,037,290.97 on 508 awards. The national Federal Pell Grant Program hub includes other states. Colorado’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,682,037,290.97 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not an institution directory or an enrollment file.

508 awards is close to Indiana’s 582-row Pell cell, with an implied mean of about $5.28 million per award. That mean is an institution-year scale, not a typical student Pell amount. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $2,682,037,290.97, 508 awards, CO, and 84.063. Correlation is not causation. Colorado’s 508 Pell rows against $2,682,037,290.97 sit near Indiana’s Pell cell in this slice, still an institution-year scale rather than a student award.

Pell versus other student-aid catalogs

The catalog title names Federal Pell Grant Program. It is not Direct Loans or campus-based aid catalogs. Mixing other catalogs into $2,682,037,290.97 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Colorado, CFDA 84.063, $2,682,037,290.97, 508 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,682,037,290.97 by 508 yields about $5.28 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 508 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Colorado geography on the Pell tag

CO is the place-of-performance code. Awards coded to Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, or Oklahoma stay outside $2,682,037,290.97 even when a student later transfers. A Pell obligation can still appear as records tagged to Denver, Boulder, or another in-state address. The code does not convert $2,682,037,290.97 into a county map or a ranking of places as winners or losers.

Colorado federal spending is the all-program parent. 84.063 is one row on Colorado programs. $2,682,037,290.97 is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Federal Pell Grant Program in Colorado for the filtered table, CFDA 84.063 for 84.063 without a Colorado filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,682,037,290.97.

508 awards under $2.68 billion

$2,682,037,290.97 ÷ 508 is about $5.28 million per award. That average is not a median and not a typical household, student, or meal payment. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 508 as a record count. A Denver or Boulder address on a Pell instrument does not convert $2,682,037,290.97 into a campus-by-campus table.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $2,682,037,290.97 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 508 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $2,682,037,290.97 without changing the join key of 84.063 and CO.

What Pell in Colorado does not prove

A 84.063 total tagged to Colorado does not measure program quality, and it does not equal cash already paid. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $2,682,037,290.97 on 508 awards for Federal Pell Grant Program in Colorado.

Keep both sides of the join: Federal Pell Grant Program and Colorado, obligations only. Do not annualize $2,682,037,290.97 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 508 as a person or contractor census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a policy story.

Using the Pell–Colorado overlay

The overlay target is the Colorado × CFDA 84.063 table. Open Federal Pell Grant Program in Colorado when you want the same $2,682,037,290.97 / 508-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 84.063 drops the Colorado filter. Colorado federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Colorado programs lists other catalogs beside 84.063. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Colorado won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 84.063 plus CO. Obligations of $2,682,037,290.97 are not outlays.

Questions

How much Federal Pell Grant Program funding is obligated in Colorado?

USAspending records $2,682,037,290.97 in CFDA 84.063 obligations with Colorado place of performance on 508 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Federal Pell Grant Program and Colorado together when citing $2,682,037,290.97. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 508 awards mean 508 people or contractors?

No. 508 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $5.28 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,682,037,290.97 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $2.68 billion Colorado’s full federal student-aid spend?

No. $2,682,037,290.97 is only the 84.063 × Colorado cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Colorado program pages. Nationwide 84.063 is not limited to Colorado. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 84.063 × CO pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Colorado as better or worse.

Have these Federal Pell Grant Program dollars already been paid?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. This join does not name recipients or contractors. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live Federal Pell Grant Program–Colorado table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.