Federal Pell Grant Program funding in Virginia
Federal Pell Grant Program (CFDA 84.063) obligations tagged to Virginia total $4,482,471,262.27 on USAspending.gov across 807 awards. Virginia’s Pell file sits near Georgia’s 827-row cell in texture and below Illinois’s 1,342-row cell. The join is Education’s Pell Catalog number plus a VA place-of-performance tag. VA here is Virginia, not the Department of Veterans Affairs and not a veterans’ education program. Eight hundred seven Pell actions on a VA tag are Virginia geography, not Veterans Affairs and not GI Bill; $4,482,471,262.27 is the 84.063 sum.
Key figures
- Virginia Pell (CFDA 84.063): $4,482,471,262.27 on 807 USAspending awards.
- The implied mean is about $5,554,500 per award; that is not a typical student Pell grant.
- VA in this join is the state, not Veterans Affairs.
- Cite obligations, not tuition credited; no award year is in the packet.
- The join is 84.063 × Virginia, not a college ranking.
Pell on a Virginia tag, not a VA-benefits tag
Keep USAspending rows labeled FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM whose geography is Virginia (VA). Eight hundred seven awards remain. They sum to $4,482,471,262.27. Pell Grants move through participating institutions. The state abbreviation VA is easy to misread as the Department of Veterans Affairs. This Catalog number is 84.063, Federal Pell Grant Program, not GI Bill.
The implied mean is about $5,554,500 per award. That is campus-vehicle size, not a typical student Pell grant. Unique students and unique campuses are unpublished. The packet does not name community colleges or universities.
Virginia federal spending is every CFDA on VA. CFDA 84.063 is Pell nationwide. Federal Pell Grant Program in Virginia is the overlap. Virginia programs and All spending ties are the indexes.
Community colleges, public universities, and private participating schools can all appear. None is named in the facts.
Northern Virginia campuses draw commuters from Maryland and D.C. An VA tag is still not a residency census.
Northern Virginia campuses and online enrollment
A VA tag can follow a campus in Northern Virginia even when many students commute from Maryland or D.C., and Virginia residents at out-of-state campuses can appear on other 84.063 cells. $4,482,471,262.27 is not a census of Virginians receiving Pell.
State need-based aid (for example VGAP) is not CFDA 84.063. Mixing state grants with this total changes datasets.
Direct Loans and campus-based aid sit outside this join. Do not add them into $4,482,471,262.27.
State need-based aid is not CFDA 84.063. Mixing it with $4,482,471,262.27 changes datasets.
Direct Loans sit outside this join.
Obligations versus tuition credited
Quote $4,482,471,262.27 as USAspending obligations for CFDA 84.063 in Virginia. 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 the obligation join.
Statewide Virginia, not a university ranking
This packet does not split 807 awards or $4,482,471,262.27 by institution or region. A Northern Virginia story and a southwest-Virginia story would need a different table. The extract stays statewide.
Do not rank Virginia colleges from this cell. Graduation rates are unpublished. Correlation is not causation.
Hampton Roads, Northern Virginia, and southwest Virginia share the VA state tag. An institution story needs a campus table.
Citation line
Quote USAspending.gov: Federal Pell Grant Program (CFDA 84.063) obligated $4,482,471,262.27 on 807 awards coded to Virginia. Name Pell and Virginia together, and do not confuse the VA state code with veterans’ benefits.
The overlay Federal Pell Grant Program in Virginia is the live pair.
Spell out Virginia in the citation
Because VA is overloaded, a careful sentence says Virginia and CFDA 84.063 together: Federal Pell Grant Program obligated $4,482,471,262.27 on 807 awards coded to Virginia.
Federal Pell Grant Program in Virginia is the overlay. Virginia programs lists sibling cells.
Virginia Pell’s 807 actions use the state code VA, which is easy to misread as Veterans Affairs. CFDA 84.063 is Federal Pell Grant Program, not GI Bill. $4,482,471,262.27 stays on that Catalog number. Northern Virginia commuters from Maryland and D.C. do not make this a residency census. Quote USAspending obligations, not a typical student grant, and spell out Virginia in the sentence.
Follow Federal Pell Grant Program in Virginia for the live 84.063 table. $4,482,471,262.27 and 807 awards are the citation pair. Spell out Virginia so VA is not read as Veterans Affairs. Campus names stay unpublished. 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 Virginia?
- USAspending.gov shows $4,482,471,262.27 across 807 awards for CFDA 84.063 tagged to Virginia. That is an obligation join, not a count of students and not GI Bill funding.
- Does VA mean Veterans Affairs?
- In this join, VA is the state of Virginia. The Catalog number is 84.063, Federal Pell Grant Program. Veterans’ education benefits use other programs.
- Does 807 awards mean 807 Virginia Pell recipients?
- No. Eight hundred seven is an award-action count, often at the institution level. Unique students are not published in this packet.
- Where is the live Virginia Pell table?
- Federal Pell Grant Program in Virginia. See also Virginia federal spending, Virginia programs, CFDA 84.063, and All spending ties.
USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.