Federal Pell Grant Program obligations in Ohio
USAspending.gov records $3,464,574,663.22 in Federal Pell Grant Program obligations (CFDA 84.063) with place of performance in Ohio, across 1,384 awards. One thousand three hundred eighty-four instruments against $3.46 billion produce a mean of about $2,503,305 per award. This page joins Department of Education catalog 84.063 to the OH geography tag. It is not a student census and not cash already paid.
Key figures
- CFDA 84.063 shows $3,464,574,663.22 in Ohio obligations on 1,384 awards.
- The mean is about $2,503,305 per award.
- The catalog is Pell Grants, not Title I or Direct Loans.
- Ohio is a place-of-performance tag, not a student census.
- Figures are obligations, not outlays.
What the 84.063–Ohio join is
CFDA 84.063 is titled FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM. Crossed with Ohio place of performance, obligations sum to $3,464,574,663.22 on 1,384 awards. The national Pell hub includes other states. Ohio’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $3,464,574,663.22 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of Pell recipients at campuses in Columbus, Cleveland, or Cincinnati.
1,384 awards is a mid-thickness student-aid book, similar in scale to Pennsylvania’s 84.063 cell. Pell often posts as many institution-level instruments rather than one statewide line. The join does not name colleges, list students, or count FAFSA filers. Packet facts stop at $3,464,574,663.22, 1,384 awards, OH, and 84.063.
84.063 is not Title I or Direct Loans
Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies (CFDA 84.010) and Federal Direct Student Loans are different Education catalogs. Mixing those dollars into $3,464,574,663.22 would invent a broader education total than this cell contains. Facts available: Ohio, CFDA 84.063, $3,464,574,663.22, 1,384 awards. Expected Family Contribution flags and campus lists are not in the facts.
The catalog title names Federal Pell Grant Program, not a ranking of campus need. Dividing $3,464,574,663.22 by 1,384 yields about $2,503,305 per award—a record-level ratio, not a typical student Pell award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,384 is not a count of students.
Ohio geography on the Pell tag
OH is the place-of-performance code. A Pell award can still appear as records tagged to Columbus, Cleveland, or another in-state address. Awards coded to Indiana, Kentucky, or Pennsylvania stay outside $3,464,574,663.22 even when a student lives in a cross-border metro. The code does not convert $3.46 billion into a campus map.
Ohio federal spending is the all-program parent. 84.063 is one row on Ohio programs. $3.46 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Federal Pell Grant Program in Ohio for the filtered table, CFDA 84.063 for 84.063 without an Ohio filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,464,574,663.22.
Reading 1,384 awards under $3.46 billion
$3,464,574,663.22 ÷ 1,384 is about $2,503,305 per award. That average is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical student grant and not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 1,384 as a record count, not as 1,384 finished students.
USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $3,464,574,663.22 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 1,384 rows are continuations, corrections, or award-year instruments. Later ingests can restate $3,464,574,663.22 without changing the join key of 84.063 and OH.
What the Pell–Ohio pair does not prove
A large 84.063 total tagged to Ohio does not measure whether students completed degrees, and it does not equal aid disbursed to individuals. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $3,464,574,663.22 on 1,384 awards for Pell Grants in Ohio.
Keep both sides of the join: Federal Pell Grant Program and Ohio, obligations only. Do not annualize $3,464,574,663.22 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 1,384 as a student census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than an access story.
Using the 84.063–Ohio overlay
The overlay target is the Ohio × CFDA 84.063 table. Open Federal Pell Grant Program in Ohio when you want the same $3,464,574,663.22 / 1,384-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 84.063 drops the Ohio filter. Ohio federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Ohio programs lists other catalogs beside Pell. 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 Ohio won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 84.063 plus OH. Obligations of $3,464,574,663.22 are not outlays.
Questions
- How much Pell Grant funding is obligated in Ohio?
- USAspending records $3,464,574,663.22 in CFDA 84.063 obligations with Ohio place of performance on 1,384 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not Title I. Keep Federal Pell Grant Program and Ohio together when citing $3,464,574,663.22.
- Are 1,384 awards 1,384 students?
- 1,384 is an award-record count, not a student census. Institutions can post many instruments. The mean is about $2,503,305 per award, a ratio, not a typical student Pell grant. Unique recipients are unpublished.
- Is this Ohio’s total federal student-aid spending?
- No. This join is CFDA 84.063 only. Direct Loans and other Education catalogs appear on separate Ohio program pages. Nationwide 84.063 is not limited to Ohio. Obligations of $3,464,574,663.22 are not outlays.
- Where is the live 84.063–Ohio table?
- The overlay is Federal Pell Grant Program in Ohio. CFDA 84.063 drops the state filter. Ohio federal spending and Ohio programs are the state parents. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.