Federal Transit Formula Grants in Arizona

Arizona joined to CFDA 20.507

CFDA 20.507 is titled FEDERAL TRANSIT FORMULA GRANTS. Crossed with Arizona place of performance, obligations sum to $725,611,522.28 on 41 awards. The national 20.507 hub includes other states. Arizona’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $725,611,522.28 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of bus routes in Phoenix.

Forty-one awards is a urbanized-area formula pattern: FTA 5307-style assistance often posts as dozens of discrete records to transit agencies. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $725,611,522.28, 41 awards, AZ, and 20.507. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep Federal Transit Formula Grants and Arizona together when reading $725,611,522.28.

20.507 is not capital investment grants in Arizona

Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants use a different CFDA number. Mixing those series into $725,611,522.28 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Arizona, CFDA 20.507, $725,611,522.28, 41 awards. Agency names, vehicle counts, and ridership figures are unpublished.

The catalog title names Federal Transit Formula Grants, not a ranking of transit agencies. Dividing $725,611,522.28 by 41 yields about $17.70 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 41 is not an agency or route census.

Arizona geography on the FTA formula tag

AZ is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Phoenix, Tucson, Mesa, or other in-state sites can share the tag. Awards coded to California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, or Colorado stay outside $725,611,522.28 even when activity later crosses those lines. The code does not convert $725.61 million into a route map.

Arizona federal spending is the all-program parent. 20.507 is one row on Arizona programs. $725.61 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Federal Transit Formula Grants in Arizona for the filtered table, CFDA 20.507 for the catalog without a Arizona filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $725,611,522.28.

Reading 41 awards under $725.61 million

$725,611,522.28 ÷ 41 is about $17.70 million per award. That average is a formula-grant scale, not a per-ride subsidy, not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 41 as a record count, not as 41 transit agencies.

Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 41 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $725,611,522.28 without changing the join key of 20.507 and AZ. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $725,611,522.28 is the net total supplied in the facts. The pair remains Federal Transit Formula Grants plus Arizona. Do not treat $725,611,522.28 as an outlay series.

What the 20.507–Arizona pair does not prove

A large 20.507 total tagged to Arizona does not measure whether ridership rose, and it does not equal trips delivered. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $725,611,522.28 on 41 awards for Federal Transit Formula Grants in Arizona.

Keep both sides of the join: Federal Transit Formula Grants and Arizona, obligations only. Do not annualize $725,611,522.28 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 41 as an agency or route census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a congestion story. Cite Federal Transit Formula Grants together with Arizona whenever you reuse $725,611,522.28.

Using the transit-formula–Arizona overlay

The overlay target is the Arizona × CFDA 20.507 table. Open Federal Transit Formula Grants in Arizona when you want the same $725,611,522.28 / 41-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 20.507 drops the Arizona filter. Arizona federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Arizona programs lists other catalogs beside 20.507. 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 Arizona won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 20.507 plus AZ. Obligations of $725,611,522.28 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 20.507 × AZ pair. 41 remains an award-record count, not a person, facility, or project census.

Questions

How much FTA formula funding is obligated in Arizona?

USAspending records $725,611,522.28 in CFDA 20.507 obligations with Arizona place of performance on 41 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Federal Transit Formula Grants and Arizona together when citing $725,611,522.28.

Does 41 awards mean 41 Arizona transit agencies?

41 is a USAspending award-record count, not an agency or route census. The implied mean is about $17.70 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 41 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this Arizona’s total federal transportation spending?

No. This join is CFDA 20.507 only. Capital investment grants and other DOT catalogs appear on separate Arizona program pages. Nationwide 20.507 is not limited to Arizona. Obligations of $725,611,522.28 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Federal Transit Formula Grants–Arizona table.

Do these obligations equal buses purchased?

No. $725,611,522.28 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 20.507 × AZ pair.