Federal Transit Formula Grants in Pennsylvania

Formula transit dollars tagged to Pennsylvania

CFDA 20.507 is titled FEDERAL TRANSIT FORMULA GRANTS. Filtered to Pennsylvania place of performance, obligations sum to $2,624,165,593 on 86 awards. The national Federal Transit Formula Grants hub includes every state. Pennsylvania's spending hub includes every program. This tie is the intersection. $2,624,165,593 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of routes, riders, or vehicles in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, or Harrisburg.

Formula transit grants often post as many assistance records to urbanized-area recipients rather than one statewide block. The join does not name recipients, split the southeast and the Alleghenies, or count routes, riders, or vehicles. Packet facts stop at $2,624,165,593, 86 awards, PA, and 20.507. Correlation is not causation.

20.507 is not Capital Investment Grants in Pennsylvania

Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants (CFDA 20.500) sits on other Catalog numbers. Mixing those dollars into $2,624,165,593 would invent a broader total than this 20.507 × PA cell contains. Facts available: Pennsylvania, CFDA 20.507, $2,624,165,593, 86 awards. Recipient names, subawards, and route, rider, or vehicle counts are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Federal Transit Formula Grants, not a ranking of Pennsylvania outcomes. Dividing $2,624,165,593 by 86 yields about $30.51 million per award—a formula assistance award to a transit agency or state recipient, not a typical farebox receipt. Unique recipients are unpublished. 86 is not a count of routes, riders, or vehicles.

Pennsylvania geography on the Transit Formula Grants tag

PA is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, or Harrisburg can share the tag. Awards coded to Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, West Virginia, or Delaware stay outside $2,624,165,593 even when a metro, watershed, or service area approaches the border. SEPTA-region tags and western Pennsylvania tags collapse into one PA code. The code does not convert $2.62 billion into a route map.

Pennsylvania federal spending is the all-program parent. 20.507 is one row on Pennsylvania programs. $2.62 billion is not the state's complete federal footprint. Open Federal Transit Formula Grants in Pennsylvania for the filtered table, CFDA 20.507 for 20.507 without a Pennsylvania filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,624,165,593.

Reading 86 awards under $2.62 billion

$2,624,165,593 ÷ 86 is about $30.51 million per award. That average is a formula assistance award to a transit agency or state recipient, not a typical farebox receipt. It is not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 86 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 86 finished transit awards.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $2,624,165,593 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 86 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $2,624,165,593 without changing the join key of 20.507 and PA.

What the Transit Formula Grants–Pennsylvania pair does not prove

A large 20.507 total tagged to Pennsylvania does not measure whether ridership recovered, and it does not equal vehicle-revenue hours. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $2,624,165,593 on 86 awards for Federal Transit Formula Grants in Pennsylvania.

Keep both sides of the join: Federal Transit Formula Grants and Pennsylvania, obligations only. Do not annualize $2,624,165,593 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 86 as a route, rider, or vehicle census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a program story.

Using the Transit Formula Grants–Pennsylvania overlay

The overlay target is the Pennsylvania × CFDA 20.507 table. Open Federal Transit Formula Grants in Pennsylvania when you want the same $2,624,165,593 / 86-awards cell in the site's data chrome. CFDA 20.507 drops the Pennsylvania filter. Pennsylvania federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Pennsylvania programs 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 Pennsylvania won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 20.507 plus PA. Obligations of $2,624,165,593 are not outlays. Cite Federal Transit Formula Grants together with Pennsylvania whenever you reuse $2,624,165,593. 86 remains an award-record count on USAspending.gov, not a person, facility, or project census.

Questions

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

USAspending.gov shows $2,624,165,593 in CFDA 20.507 obligations coded to Pennsylvania across 86 awards. The join uses the program number and Pennsylvania place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays. Keep Federal Transit Formula Grants and Pennsylvania together when citing $2,624,165,593.

Is this the same as Capital Investment Grants in Pennsylvania?

No. This cell is CFDA 20.507 only. Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants (CFDA 20.500) are other catalogs. Mixing those numbers would invent a total larger than $2,624,165,593. 86 is a record count, not a route, rider, or vehicle census.

Do 86 awards mean 86 transit agencies?

86 is a USAspending award-record count, not a route, rider, or vehicle census. The implied mean is about $30.51 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,624,165,593 are not outlays. Keep Federal Transit Formula Grants and Pennsylvania together when citing $2,624,165,593. The overlay remains the live 20.507 × PA table on USAspending.gov.

Do these obligations equal buses purchased?

No. $2,624,165,593 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. This packet has no route, rider, or vehicle count. Keep the obligation label when citing the pair. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 20.507 × PA pair.