Federal Pell Grant Program obligations in Pennsylvania

What the 84.063–Pennsylvania join is

CFDA 84.063 is titled FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM. Crossed with Pennsylvania place of performance, obligations sum to $3,533,566,220.30 on 1,569 awards. The national Pell hub includes other states. Pennsylvania’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $3,533,566,220.30 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of Pell recipients at campuses in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, or State College.

1,569 awards is a mid-thickness student-aid book: denser than a five-row Title I cell, thinner than many SSA payment books. 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 $3,533,566,220.30, 1,569 awards, PA, 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 $3,533,566,220.30 would invent a broader education total than this cell contains. Facts available: Pennsylvania, CFDA 84.063, $3,533,566,220.30, 1,569 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 $3,533,566,220.30 by 1,569 yields about $2,252,113 per award—a record-level ratio, not a typical student Pell award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,569 is not a count of students.

Pennsylvania geography on the Pell tag

PA is the place-of-performance code. A Pell award can still appear as records tagged to Harrisburg, Philadelphia, or another in-state address. Awards coded to New Jersey, Ohio, or New York stay outside $3,533,566,220.30 even when a student lives in a cross-border metro. The code does not convert $3.53 billion into a campus map.

Pennsylvania federal spending is the all-program parent. 84.063 is one row on Pennsylvania programs. $3.53 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Federal Pell Grant Program in Pennsylvania for the filtered table, CFDA 84.063 for 84.063 without a Pennsylvania filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,533,566,220.30.

Reading 1,569 awards under $3.53 billion

$3,533,566,220.30 ÷ 1,569 is about $2,252,113 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 1,569 as a record count, not as 1,569 finished students.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $3,533,566,220.30 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 1,569 rows are continuations, corrections, or award-year instruments. Later ingests can restate $3,533,566,220.30 without changing the join key of 84.063 and PA.

What the Pell–Pennsylvania pair does not prove

A large 84.063 total tagged to Pennsylvania 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 $3,533,566,220.30 on 1,569 awards for Pell Grants in Pennsylvania.

Keep both sides of the join: Federal Pell Grant Program and Pennsylvania, obligations only. Do not annualize $3,533,566,220.30 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 1,569 as a student census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than an access story.

Using the 84.063–Pennsylvania overlay

The overlay target is the Pennsylvania × CFDA 84.063 table. Open Federal Pell Grant Program in Pennsylvania when you want the same $3,533,566,220.30 / 1,569-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 84.063 drops the Pennsylvania filter. Pennsylvania federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 84.063 plus PA. Obligations of $3,533,566,220.30 are not outlays.

Questions

How much Pell Grant funding is obligated in Pennsylvania?

USAspending records $3,533,566,220.30 in CFDA 84.063 obligations with Pennsylvania place of performance on 1,569 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not Title I. Keep Federal Pell Grant Program and Pennsylvania together when citing $3,533,566,220.30.

Are 1,569 awards 1,569 students?

1,569 is an award-record count, not a student census. Institutions can post many instruments. The mean is about $2,252,113 per award, a ratio, not a typical student Pell grant. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Is this Pennsylvania’s total federal student-aid spending?

No. This join is CFDA 84.063 only. Direct Loans and other Education catalogs appear on separate Pennsylvania program pages. Nationwide 84.063 is not limited to Pennsylvania. Obligations of $3,533,566,220.30 are not outlays.

Where is the live 84.063–Pennsylvania table?

The overlay is Federal Pell Grant Program in Pennsylvania. CFDA 84.063 drops the state filter. Pennsylvania federal spending and Pennsylvania programs are the state parents. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.