Federal Transit Formula Grants obligations in Massachusetts

Formula transit meeting Massachusetts

CFDA 20.507 (FEDERAL TRANSIT FORMULA GRANTS) plus Massachusetts place of performance sums to $2,607,078,397 on 51 awards. The national 20.507 hub has no Massachusetts filter. The Massachusetts spending hub has no CFDA filter. This tie is the overlap.

Fifty-one awards is a multi-recipient formula pattern: urbanized-area funds can post several awards to designated recipients rather than one statewide block. The join does not name the MBTA, regional transit authorities, or ridership. Packet facts are $2,607,078,397, 51 awards, MA, and 20.507.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $2,607,078,397 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 20.507 and MA. 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 Massachusetts against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Fifty-one awards totaling $2,607,078,397 (about $51.12 million mean) is FTA formula assistance tagged MA. Capital investment grants are a different catalog. MBTA and regional authorities are not named. Commuter trips into New Hampshire or Rhode Island do not move those states’ awards into this cell.

20.507 is not every transit or research dollar

Capital investment grants use a different CFDA. HHS research catalogs in Massachusetts are unrelated. Mixing either into $2,607,078,397 would overstate this cell. Highway programs sit on other pages as well.

Facts here: Massachusetts, CFDA 20.507, $2,607,078,397, 51 awards. Unlinked trips, farebox recovery, and vehicle-age statistics are not in the facts. The title names the formula program, not a capital plan.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $2,607,078,397, 51 awards, CFDA 20.507, program title Federal Transit Formula Grants, and geography MA/Massachusetts. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 51 awards into $2,607,078,397 is about $51.12 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Massachusetts research and housing cells are large in federal tables. They are not transit. $2,607,078,397 is 20.507 × MA. Capital investment grants use a different catalog, not this page.

Massachusetts geography versus the metro

MA is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Boston or to regional authorities can share the tag. Awards coded to New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Connecticut stay outside $2,607,078,397 even when commuters cross the state line.

Massachusetts federal spending is the all-program parent. CFDA 20.507 is one row on the Massachusetts programs list. $2.61 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint.

Place of performance MA 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 $2,607,078,397 into a county map. Awards with a different state code are outside this cell even if people, patients, or riders cross the border.

Fifty-one awards and a $51.1 million mean

$2,607,078,397 ÷ 51 is about $51.1 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 51 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 51 finished projects. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; the $2,607,078,397 figure is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 51 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections.

Using the Federal Transit Formula Grants–Massachusetts overlay

The overlay target for this tie is the Massachusetts × CFDA 20.507 table. Open that path when you want the same $2,607,078,397 / 51-award cell in the site’s data chrome. The national program page for CFDA 20.507 drops the Massachusetts filter. The Massachusetts spending hub drops the CFDA filter. The Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts “won” or “lost” federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. Correlation is not causation. The headline number remains $2,607,078,397 on 51 awards, from USAspending.gov, for Federal Transit Formula Grants in Massachusetts.

Limits

A large 20.507 total in Massachusetts does not measure crowding or reliability, 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 Massachusetts, CFDA 20.507, Massachusetts federal spending, Massachusetts programs, and All spending ties.

Questions

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

USAspending records $2,607,078,397 in CFDA 20.507 obligations with Massachusetts place of performance across 51 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not an outlay and not FTA’s national total.

Does this include capital investment grants?

No. This join is CFDA 20.507 only. Capital investment catalogs use a different CFDA number. The $2,607,078,397 total does not include those cells.

What is the average award?

About $51.1 million ($2,607,078,397 ÷ 51). The mean is not a typical vehicle purchase and not a median.

Is this Massachusetts’s total federal spending?

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