Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants obligations in Washington

Capital investment grants tagged to Washington

CFDA 20.500 is titled FEDERAL TRANSIT CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANTS. Crossed with Washington place of performance, obligations sum to $2,163,969,640 on 11 awards. The national 20.500 hub includes every state. The Washington spending hub includes every program. This tie is the overlap.

Eleven awards is a concentrated capital-grant pattern: New Starts and related capital programs often post a limited set of large awards rather than a long list of operating invoices. The join does not name transit agencies or specific corridors. Packet facts are $2,163,969,640, 11 awards, WA, and 20.500.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $2,163,969,640 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 20.500 and WA. The overlay table at the program-in-state path is the same cell rendered as a page; this narrative is the join explained in prose. Nothing here ranks Washington against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Eleven awards totaling $2,163,969,640 (about $196.72 million mean) is capital investment grants, not urban formula funds. WA is Washington State. Project names and Full Funding Grant Agreements are not in the facts. Formula CFDA dollars must not be added to this cell.

20.500 is not formula grants

Federal Transit Formula Grants use a different CFDA number. Mixing formula dollars into $2,163,969,640 would overstate this cell. Coronavirus Relief Fund and Housing Choice Vouchers in Washington are unrelated catalogs as well.

Facts on this page: Washington, CFDA 20.500, $2,163,969,640, 11 awards. Project lists, Full Funding Grant Agreements, and opening-year ridership forecasts are not in the facts. The catalog title names capital investment grants, not an operating subsidy.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $2,163,969,640, 11 awards, CFDA 20.500, program title Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants, and geography WA/Washington. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 11 awards into $2,163,969,640 is about $196.72 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Capital investment grants are project-like. Formula grants are operations-like in ordinary speech, though both are assistance catalogs. $2,163,969,640 is 20.500 × WA. Do not add a formula cell to this total.

Washington State geography versus the metro

WA is the place-of-performance code for Washington State, not Washington, D.C. Awards billed to Seattle-area capital projects or to other in-state recipients can share the tag. Awards coded to Oregon or Idaho stay outside $2,163,969,640 even when a corridor approaches the border.

Washington federal spending is the all-program parent. CFDA 20.500 is one row on the Washington programs list. $2.16 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint.

Place of performance WA is a two-letter code in the award file. It can mark a state capital, a campus, a housing authority, a transit agency, or a default statewide tag. It does not prove where every subcontract ran, and it does not convert $2,163,969,640 into a county map. Awards with a different state code are outside this cell even if people, patients, or riders cross the border.

Eleven awards and a $197 million mean

$2,163,969,640 ÷ 11 is about $196.7 million per award. That average is a capital-project scale, not a typical bus purchase and not a median. With n = 11, a few large instruments can dominate. The aggregate is net obligations supplied in the facts.

Treat 11 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 11 finished projects. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; the $2,163,969,640 figure is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 11 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections.

Using the Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants–Washington overlay

The overlay target for this tie is the Washington × CFDA 20.500 table. Open that path when you want the same $2,163,969,640 / 11-award cell in the site’s data chrome. The national program page for CFDA 20.500 drops the Washington filter. The Washington spending hub drops the CFDA filter. The Washington programs index lists other catalogs beside Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants. All spending ties is the directory of 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 Washington “won” or “lost” federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. Correlation is not causation. The headline number remains $2,163,969,640 on 11 awards, from USAspending.gov, for Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants in Washington.

What the join does not prove

A large 20.500 total in Washington does not measure on-time construction or ridership, and it does not equal cash already spent on vehicles or guideway. FEC filings do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.

See Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants in Washington, CFDA 20.500, Washington federal spending, Washington programs, and All spending ties.

Questions

How much Federal Transit Capital Investment Grant funding is obligated in Washington?

USAspending records $2,163,969,640 in CFDA 20.500 obligations with Washington place of performance across 11 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not FTA’s national total and not an outlay.

Is this the same as formula grants?

No. This join is CFDA 20.500 (capital investment grants) only. Formula catalogs use a different CFDA number. The $2,163,969,640 total does not absorb those cells.

Is this Washington, D.C.?

No. The state code is WA (Washington State). The $2,163,969,640 figure is the 20.500 × WA cell.

What is the average award?

About $196.7 million ($2,163,969,640 ÷ 11). That mean is a capital-project scale, not a typical operating invoice.