Federal Transit Formula Grants obligations in New Jersey

Formula transit dollars tagged to New Jersey

CFDA 20.507 is titled FEDERAL TRANSIT FORMULA GRANTS. Crossed with New Jersey place of performance, obligations sum to $3,242,125,201 on 23 awards. The national 20.507 hub includes every state. The New Jersey spending hub includes every program. This tie is the overlap.

Twenty-three awards is a modest count for a large transit cell. Formula programs often post a limited set of large awards to designated recipients rather than a long list of bus-stop invoices. The join does not name NJ TRANSIT, PATH, or county operators. Packet facts are $3,242,125,201, 23 awards, NJ, and 20.507.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $3,242,125,201 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 20.507 and NJ. 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 New Jersey against other states on need, performance, or politics.

New Jersey transit riders often cross into New York. Formula grants tagged NJ still stop at the state code. Twenty-three awards totaling $3,242,125,201 (about $140.96 million mean) are CFDA 20.507 records with place of performance NJ. PATH, NJ TRANSIT, and county operators are not named in the packet.

20.507 is not every transit CFDA

Capital investment grants, rural formula, and bus-and-bus-facilities catalogs use other CFDA numbers. Mixing those into $3,242,125,201 would overstate this cell. Highway and rail catalogs are separate as well.

Facts on this page: New Jersey, CFDA 20.507, $3,242,125,201, 23 awards. Unlinked passenger trips, farebox recovery, and project lists are not in the facts. The catalog title names the formula program, not a capital plan.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $3,242,125,201, 23 awards, CFDA 20.507, program title Federal Transit Formula Grants, and geography NJ/New Jersey. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 23 awards into $3,242,125,201 is about $140.96 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Capital investment grants (a different CFDA) fund major construction. Formula grants (20.507) are the catalog here. $3,242,125,201 on 23 awards is formula × New Jersey. Highway programs are separate still.

New Jersey geography versus the metro

NJ is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed in-state can serve trips that begin or end in New York or Pennsylvania. Awards coded to those other states stay outside $3,242,125,201 even when the same rider uses both systems.

New Jersey federal spending is the all-program parent. CFDA 20.507 is one row on the New Jersey programs list. $3.24 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint.

Place of performance NJ 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 $3,242,125,201 into a county map. Awards with a different state code are outside this cell even if people, patients, or riders cross the border.

Reading a $141 million mean

$3,242,125,201 ÷ 23 is about $141.0 million per award. That average is an agency-scale formula grant, not a typical bus purchase and not a median. With n = 23, a few large recipients can dominate. The aggregate is net obligations supplied in the facts.

Treat 23 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 23 finished projects. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; the $3,242,125,201 figure is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 23 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections.

Using the Federal Transit Formula Grants–New Jersey overlay

The overlay target for this tie is the New Jersey × CFDA 20.507 table. Open that path when you want the same $3,242,125,201 / 23-award cell in the site’s data chrome. The national program page for CFDA 20.507 drops the New Jersey filter. The New Jersey spending hub drops the CFDA filter. The New Jersey 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 New Jersey “won” or “lost” federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. Correlation is not causation. The headline number remains $3,242,125,201 on 23 awards, from USAspending.gov, for Federal Transit Formula Grants in New Jersey.

What the join does not prove

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

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

Questions

How much Federal Transit Formula Grant funding is obligated in New Jersey?

USAspending records $3,242,125,201 in CFDA 20.507 obligations with New Jersey place of performance across 23 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not FTA’s national total and not an outlay.

Does this include capital investment grants?

No. This join is CFDA 20.507 (formula grants) only. Capital investment catalogs use a different CFDA number. The $3,242,125,201 total does not absorb those cells.

Why 23 awards for more than $3 billion?

The facts show 23 awards totaling $3,242,125,201. Formula programs often post a small number of large awards to designated recipients. Agency names are not in the packet facts.

Is this New Jersey’s total transportation spending?

No. Highway, rail, and other transit catalogs sit on separate New Jersey program pages. The statewide hub is the all-program parent.