Federal Transit Formula Grants obligations in Illinois

How 20.507 and Illinois overlap

The $3,084,529,006.75 total is the obligation sum on awards that carry both CFDA 20.507 (FEDERAL TRANSIT FORMULA GRANTS) and Illinois as place of performance. The national formula-grants hub has no Illinois filter. The Illinois spending hub has no CFDA filter. This tie is the overlap.

Sixty-one awards is a thicker instrument list than many statewide blocks in this slice. Urbanized-area formula funds can post multiple awards to designated recipients across a state. The join still does not name those recipients, split Chicago from downstate, or report unlinked trips. Packet facts stop at dollars, award count, state, and CFDA.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $3,084,529,006.75 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 20.507 and IL. 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 Illinois against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Sixty-one awards totaling $3,084,529,006.75 is a thicker formula list than a 20-award transit cell. The about $50.57 million mean reflects that count. Chicago-area operators and downstate systems can share the IL tag without being named. Capital investment grants are a different CFDA.

Formula grants, not capital investment grants

CFDA 20.507 is the urban formula catalog. New Starts / capital investment grants and rural formula programs use other numbers. Mixing them into $3,084,529,006.75 would overstate this cell. Highway catalogs are separate as well.

Facts on this page: Illinois, CFDA 20.507, $3,084,529,006.75, 61 awards. Fleet size, farebox recovery, and project earmarks are not in the facts. The title names the formula program, not a construction schedule.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $3,084,529,006.75, 61 awards, CFDA 20.507, program title Federal Transit Formula Grants, and geography IL/Illinois. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 61 awards into $3,084,529,006.75 is about $50.57 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Illinois also has voucher and special-education ties. Those dollars are not in $3,084,529,006.75. CFDA 20.507 × IL is formula transit only. Capital investment grants remain a different number.

Illinois as a USAspending geography

IL is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Chicago, suburban operators, or downstate systems can share the tag. Awards coded to Indiana, Wisconsin, or Missouri stay outside $3,084,529,006.75 even when commuters cross the state line.

Illinois federal spending is the all-program parent. CFDA 20.507 is one row on the Illinois programs list. $3.08 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint.

Place of performance IL 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 $3,084,529,006.75 into a county map. Awards with a different state code are outside this cell even if people, patients, or riders cross the border.

Sixty-one awards and a $50.6 million mean

$3,084,529,006.75 ÷ 61 is about $50.6 million per award. A larger award count pulls the mean below cells that post a dozen statewide instruments. The average is still an agency-scale grant, not a typical bus purchase and not a median. The aggregate is net obligations.

Treat 61 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 61 finished projects. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; the $3,084,529,006.75 figure is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 61 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections.

Using the Federal Transit Formula Grants–Illinois overlay

The overlay target for this tie is the Illinois × CFDA 20.507 table. Open that path when you want the same $3,084,529,006.75 / 61-award cell in the site’s data chrome. The national program page for CFDA 20.507 drops the Illinois filter. The Illinois spending hub drops the CFDA filter. The Illinois programs index lists other catalogs beside Federal Transit Formula 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 Illinois “won” or “lost” federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. Correlation is not causation. The headline number remains $3,084,529,006.75 on 61 awards, from USAspending.gov, for Federal Transit Formula Grants in Illinois.

Limits of the join

A large 20.507 total in Illinois does not measure crowding or on-time performance, and it does not equal cash spent on vehicles. FEC filings do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.

See Federal Transit Formula Grants in Illinois, CFDA 20.507, Illinois federal spending, Illinois programs, and All spending ties.

Questions

How much Federal Transit Formula Grant funding is obligated in Illinois?

USAspending records $3,084,529,006.75 in CFDA 20.507 obligations with Illinois place of performance across 61 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not an outlay and not FTA’s national total.

Is this the same as capital investment grants?

No. This join is CFDA 20.507 only. Capital investment catalogs use a different CFDA number. The $3,084,529,006.75 total does not include those cells.

Why is the average about $50.6 million?

Dividing $3,084,529,006.75 by 61 awards produces about $50.6 million. More instruments pull the mean below programs that post a few statewide awards. The mean is not a median.

Is this Illinois’s total federal spending?

No. The join filters CFDA 20.507 only. Other programs appear on the Illinois programs list and the statewide hub.