Federal Pell Grant Program funding in North Carolina
Federal Pell Grant Program (CFDA 84.063) obligations tagged to North Carolina total $4,054,661,470.96 on USAspending.gov across 993 awards. North Carolina’s Pell file is thicker than Virginia’s 807-row cell and thinner than Illinois’s 1,342-row cell. The join is Education’s Pell Catalog number plus an NC place-of-performance tag, not a count of North Carolina undergraduates and not the UNC System’s state appropriation. Nine hundred ninety-three Pell actions place North Carolina between Virginia’s 807-row cell and Illinois’s 1,342-row cell; $4,054,661,470.96 is the NC-tagged 84.063 sum.
Key figures
- North Carolina Pell (CFDA 84.063): $4,054,661,470.96 on 993 USAspending awards.
- The implied mean is about $4,083,200 per award; that is not a typical student Pell grant.
- State appropriations and UNC System budgets sit outside this join.
- Cite obligations, not tuition credited; no award year is in the packet.
- The join is 84.063 × NC, not a college ranking.
Nearly a thousand Pell actions on an NC tag
Keep USAspending rows labeled FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM whose geography is North Carolina (NC). Nine hundred ninety-three awards remain. They sum to $4,054,661,470.96. Pell Grants move through participating institutions. USAspending often records campus-level assistance actions rather than one row per student.
The implied mean is about $4,083,200 per award. That neighborhood sits between Illinois’s lower Pell implied mean and Virginia’s higher one. Matching or mismatching averages describe vehicle mix, not educational quality. Unique students are unpublished. The packet does not name community colleges or universities.
North Carolina federal spending is every CFDA on NC. CFDA 84.063 is Pell nationwide. Federal Pell Grant Program in North Carolina is the overlap. North Carolina programs and All spending ties are the indexes.
Community colleges, UNC campuses, and private participating schools can all mint Pell vehicles. None is named in the facts.
State appropriations to the UNC System are not CFDA 84.063. Mixing them with $4,054,661,470.96 changes datasets.
State aid, the UNC System, and place of performance
North Carolina’s state need-based aid and UNC System appropriations are not CFDA 84.063. Mixing them with $4,054,661,470.96 changes datasets.
An NC tag can follow a campus even when students attend online from other states. North Carolina residents at out-of-state campuses can appear on other 84.063 cells. This total is not a census of North Carolinians receiving Pell.
Direct Loans and campus-based aid sit outside this join. Research grants to universities use other Catalog numbers; they are not Pell.
Online enrollment blurs residency. An NC tag is campus coding, not a census of North Carolinians receiving Pell.
Research grants to universities use other Catalog numbers. They are not Pell.
Obligations versus tuition credited
Quote $4,054,661,470.96 as USAspending obligations for CFDA 84.063 in North Carolina. Do not quote it as tuition already credited. Award-year disbursements are other ledgers.
No fiscal year or award year is in the facts. Do not attach one. Cite USAspending.gov CFDA aggregates by place of performance state.
FSA origination files are a different ledger. Quote USAspending for this obligation join.
Research Triangle campuses are not broken out
This packet does not split 993 awards or $4,054,661,470.96 by institution or metro. A Triangle story and a rural-community-college story would need a different table. The extract stays statewide.
Do not rank North Carolina colleges from this cell. Graduation rates are unpublished. Correlation is not causation.
The Research Triangle, Charlotte, and rural campuses share NC. An institution story needs a campus table.
Citation line
Quote USAspending.gov: Federal Pell Grant Program (CFDA 84.063) obligated $4,054,661,470.96 on 993 awards coded to North Carolina. Name Pell and North Carolina together.
The overlay Federal Pell Grant Program in North Carolina is the live pair.
How to cite North Carolina Pell
Name Federal Pell Grant Program, CFDA 84.063, North Carolina, $4,054,661,470.96, 993 awards, USAspending obligations. Do not treat the implied mean as a student grant.
Federal Pell Grant Program in North Carolina is the overlay. North Carolina programs lists sibling cells.
North Carolina Pell’s 993 actions sit between Virginia’s 807 and Illinois’s 1,342 on the same Catalog number. $4,054,661,470.96 stays on CFDA 84.063. UNC System state appropriations are not this join. Campus names are unpublished. The Research Triangle is not a subtotal. Quote USAspending obligations, not a typical student grant, and do not treat about $4,083,200 as an undergraduate Pell award.
Follow Federal Pell Grant Program in North Carolina for the live 84.063 table. $4,054,661,470.96 and 993 awards are the citation pair. UNC System appropriations remain state funds. Campus names stay unpublished. The Research Triangle is not a subtotal. Do not treat the implied mean as a student grant, and do not invent an award year.
Questions
- How much Pell Grant funding is obligated in North Carolina?
- USAspending.gov shows $4,054,661,470.96 across 993 awards for CFDA 84.063 tagged to North Carolina. That is an obligation join, not a count of students.
- Does 993 awards mean 993 North Carolina Pell recipients?
- No. Nine hundred ninety-three is an award-action count, often at the institution level. Unique students are not published in this packet.
- Does this include UNC System state funding?
- No. State appropriations are not CFDA 84.063. This join is only the Federal Pell Grant Program with an NC geography tag.
- Where is the live North Carolina Pell table?
- Federal Pell Grant Program in North Carolina. See also North Carolina federal spending, North Carolina programs, CFDA 84.063, and All spending ties.
USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.