Federal Pell Grant Program in Indiana
USAspending.gov records $2,953,716,522.08 in Federal Pell Grant Program obligations (CFDA 84.063) with place of performance in Indiana, across 582 awards. 582 instruments totaling about $2.95 billion imply a mean near $5.07 million per award. This page joins the Federal Pell Grant Program catalog to the IN geography tag. It is not a campus ranking and not aid already disbursed.
Key figures
- CFDA 84.063 shows $2,953,716,522.08 in Indiana obligations on 582 awards.
- The mean is about $5.08 million per award.
- The catalog is Federal Pell Grant Program, not a different assistance line.
- Indiana is a place-of-performance tag, not a person or contractor census.
- Figures are obligations, not outlays.
Indiana’s Pell intersection
CFDA 84.063 is titled FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM. Crossed with Indiana place of performance, obligations sum to $2,953,716,522.08 on 582 awards. The national Federal Pell Grant Program hub includes other states. Indiana’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,953,716,522.08 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not an institution directory or a student census.
582 awards sits between Colorado’s 508-row Pell cell and Michigan’s 881-row cell in this slice. The implied mean of about $5.07 million per award 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 $2,953,716,522.08, 582 awards, IN, and 84.063. Correlation is not causation. Indiana’s 582 Pell rows against $2,953,716,522.08 sit near Colorado’s Pell cell in this slice, still at an institution-year scale rather than a student award.
Pell remains a grant catalog, not a loan
The catalog title names Federal Pell Grant Program. It is not Direct Loans or campus-based aid catalogs. Mixing other catalogs into $2,953,716,522.08 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Indiana, CFDA 84.063, $2,953,716,522.08, 582 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.
Dividing $2,953,716,522.08 by 582 yields about $5.08 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 582 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.
Indiana geography on 84.063
IN is the place-of-performance code. Awards coded to Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, or Michigan stay outside $2,953,716,522.08 even when a student later transfers. A Pell obligation can still appear as records tagged to Indianapolis, Bloomington, or another in-state address. The code does not convert $2,953,716,522.08 into a county map or a ranking of places as winners or losers.
Indiana federal spending is the all-program parent. 84.063 is one row on Indiana programs. $2,953,716,522.08 is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Federal Pell Grant Program in Indiana for the filtered table, CFDA 84.063 for 84.063 without a Indiana filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,953,716,522.08.
582 awards under $2.95 billion
$2,953,716,522.08 ÷ 582 is about $5.08 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 582 as a record count. Public, private, and proprietary campuses can share CFDA 84.063; the join does not split $2,953,716,522.08 by control.
USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $2,953,716,522.08 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 582 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $2,953,716,522.08 without changing the join key of 84.063 and IN.
What Pell in Indiana does not prove
A 84.063 total tagged to Indiana 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 $2,953,716,522.08 on 582 awards for Federal Pell Grant Program in Indiana.
Keep both sides of the join: Federal Pell Grant Program and Indiana, obligations only. Do not annualize $2,953,716,522.08 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 582 as a person or contractor census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a policy story.
The Pell–Indiana overlay
The overlay target is the Indiana × CFDA 84.063 table. Open Federal Pell Grant Program in Indiana when you want the same $2,953,716,522.08 / 582-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 84.063 drops the Indiana filter. Indiana federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Indiana 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 Indiana won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 84.063 plus IN. Obligations of $2,953,716,522.08 are not outlays.
Questions
- How much Federal Pell Grant Program funding is obligated in Indiana?
- USAspending records $2,953,716,522.08 in CFDA 84.063 obligations with Indiana place of performance on 582 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Federal Pell Grant Program and Indiana together when citing $2,953,716,522.08. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.
- Does 582 awards mean 582 people or contractors?
- No. 582 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $5.08 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,953,716,522.08 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.
- Is $2.95 billion Indiana’s full federal student-aid spend?
- No. $2,953,716,522.08 is only the 84.063 × Indiana cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Indiana program pages. Nationwide 84.063 is not limited to Indiana. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 84.063 × IN pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Indiana 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–Indiana table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.
USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.