Federal Pell Grant Program in Tennessee

Tennessee’s Pell cell

CFDA 84.063 is titled FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM. Crossed with Tennessee place of performance, obligations sum to $2,723,974,754.46 on 842 awards. The national Federal Pell Grant Program hub includes other states. Tennessee’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,723,974,754.46 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a campus ranking or a student census.

842 awards is close to Michigan’s 881-row Pell cell, with an implied mean of about $3.24 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 $2,723,974,754.46, 842 awards, TN, and 84.063. Correlation is not causation. Tennessee’s 842 Pell rows against $2,723,974,754.46 sit near Michigan’s Pell cell in this slice, still an institution-year scale rather than a student award.

Pell is not a state-grant catalog

The catalog title names Federal Pell Grant Program. It is not Direct Loans or campus-based aid. Mixing other catalogs into $2,723,974,754.46 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Tennessee, CFDA 84.063, $2,723,974,754.46, 842 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,723,974,754.46 by 842 yields about $3.24 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 842 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Tennessee as place of performance

TN is the place-of-performance code. Awards coded to Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, or Arkansas stay outside $2,723,974,754.46 even when a student later transfers. A Pell obligation can still appear as records tagged to Nashville, Knoxville, or another in-state address. The code does not convert $2,723,974,754.46 into a county map or a ranking of places as winners or losers.

Tennessee federal spending is the all-program parent. 84.063 is one row on Tennessee programs. $2,723,974,754.46 is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Federal Pell Grant Program in Tennessee for the filtered table, CFDA 84.063 for 84.063 without a Tennessee filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,723,974,754.46.

842 awards under $2.72 billion

$2,723,974,754.46 ÷ 842 is about $3.24 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 842 as a record count. Tennessee SNAP and school-lunch cells in this slice are different catalogs; they are not added into the Pell total.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $2,723,974,754.46 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 842 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $2,723,974,754.46 without changing the join key of 84.063 and TN.

What Pell in Tennessee does not prove

A 84.063 total tagged to Tennessee 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 $2,723,974,754.46 on 842 awards for Federal Pell Grant Program in Tennessee.

Keep both sides of the join: Federal Pell Grant Program and Tennessee, obligations only. Do not annualize $2,723,974,754.46 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 842 as a person or contractor census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a policy story.

The 84.063–Tennessee overlay

The overlay target is the Tennessee × CFDA 84.063 table. Open Federal Pell Grant Program in Tennessee when you want the same $2,723,974,754.46 / 842-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 84.063 drops the Tennessee filter. Tennessee federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Tennessee 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 Tennessee won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 84.063 plus TN. Obligations of $2,723,974,754.46 are not outlays.

Questions

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

USAspending records $2,723,974,754.46 in CFDA 84.063 obligations with Tennessee place of performance on 842 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Federal Pell Grant Program and Tennessee together when citing $2,723,974,754.46. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 842 awards mean 842 people or contractors?

No. 842 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $3.24 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,723,974,754.46 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $2.72 billion Tennessee’s full federal student-aid spend?

No. $2,723,974,754.46 is only the 84.063 × Tennessee cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Tennessee program pages. Nationwide 84.063 is not limited to Tennessee. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 84.063 × TN pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Tennessee 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–Tennessee table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.