Federal Pell Grant Program in Utah

The 84.063–Utah join

CFDA 84.063 is titled FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM. Crossed with Utah place of performance, obligations sum to $3,257,936,916.29 on 378 awards. The national Federal Pell Grant Program hub includes other states. Utah’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $3,257,936,916.29 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a campus directory or an FAFSA count.

378 awards is a campus- and institution-scale pattern rather than a student-level file. The implied mean of about $8.62 million per award is an institution-year scale, not a typical Pell award to one student. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $3,257,936,916.29, 378 awards, UT, and 84.063. Correlation is not causation. Utah’s 378 Pell instruments sit at an institution scale: $3,257,936,916.29 is the cell total, not 378 students and not 378 campuses named in the facts.

Pell is not a loan catalog in this cell

The catalog title names Federal Pell Grant Program. It is not Direct Loans, campus-based aid, or state scholarships (those are different catalogs). Mixing other catalogs into $3,257,936,916.29 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Utah, CFDA 84.063, $3,257,936,916.29, 378 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $3,257,936,916.29 by 378 yields about $8.62 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 378 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Utah geography on the Pell tag

UT is the place-of-performance code. Awards coded to Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, or Arizona stay outside $3,257,936,916.29 even when a student later transfers. A statewide Pell obligation can still appear as records tagged to Salt Lake City, Provo, or another in-state address. The code does not convert $3,257,936,916.29 into a county map or a ranking of places as winners or losers.

Utah federal spending is the all-program parent. 84.063 is one row on Utah programs. $3,257,936,916.29 is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Federal Pell Grant Program in Utah for the filtered table, CFDA 84.063 for 84.063 without a Utah filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,257,936,916.29.

Reading 378 awards under $3.26 billion

$3,257,936,916.29 ÷ 378 is about $8.62 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 378 as a record count. A Pell obligation tagged to Utah can cover students who later leave the state; the join still reports only the UT place-of-performance tag.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $3,257,936,916.29 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 378 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $3,257,936,916.29 without changing the join key of 84.063 and UT.

What Pell in Utah does not prove

A 84.063 total tagged to Utah 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 $3,257,936,916.29 on 378 awards for Federal Pell Grant Program in Utah.

Keep both sides of the join: Federal Pell Grant Program and Utah, obligations only. Do not annualize $3,257,936,916.29 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 378 as a person or contractor census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a policy story.

Using the Pell–Utah overlay

The overlay target is the Utah × CFDA 84.063 table. Open Federal Pell Grant Program in Utah when you want the same $3,257,936,916.29 / 378-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 84.063 drops the Utah filter. Utah federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Utah 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 Utah won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 84.063 plus UT. Obligations of $3,257,936,916.29 are not outlays.

Questions

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

USAspending records $3,257,936,916.29 in CFDA 84.063 obligations with Utah place of performance on 378 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Federal Pell Grant Program and Utah together when citing $3,257,936,916.29. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 378 awards mean 378 people or contractors?

No. 378 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $8.62 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $3,257,936,916.29 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $3.26 billion Utah’s full federal student-aid spend?

No. $3,257,936,916.29 is only the 84.063 × Utah cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Utah program pages. Nationwide 84.063 is not limited to Utah. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 84.063 × UT pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Utah 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–Utah table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.