Foster Care Title IV-E federal obligations in FY2026

Foster Care Title IV-E overlapping FY2026 — CFDA 93.658

The pair is Foster Care Title Iv-E × FY2026. $2,792,880,098 is the obligation aggregate for rows that carry both CFDA 93.658 and fiscal year 2026 on the yearlyTrend table. The FY2026 obligation $2,792,880,098 is 9.3% of the CFDA program total of $30,186,483,529. This page does not invent the other fiscal-year rows that sit outside FY2026 on Foster Care Title IV-E. Correlation is not causation: the join does not prove that FY2026 caused Foster Care Title IV-E activity, only that USAspending coded the two keys together. It is not a state ranking or a named foster-care provider list.

SpendingVault indexes the cell from USAspending.gov. The catalog title on the program side is FOSTER CARE TITLE IV-E. The year on the other side is federal fiscal year 2026. Neither label is a contractor, a place of performance, or an awarding-agency code — this packet publishes no awarding agency and no named recipients. Cite $2,792,880,098 as obligations on the Foster Care Title IV-E–FY2026 pair. Fifty-six FY2026 awards is not 56 children. The program-wide extract still lists 378 awards across years.

CFDA 93.658 as the Foster Care Title IV-E side

CFDA 93.658 is the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance identifier for Foster Care Title Iv-E. The program-wide obligation total in this extract is $30,186,483,529 across 378 awards. That figure is a program rollup, not a second headline for the FY2026 cell unless the two amounts match. Do not treat $30,186,483,529 as cash Treasury already sent. State agency names, child counts, and placement types are unpublished on this packet.

Open CFDA 93.658 at /programs/93.658/ for the program hub. That page is not this join: it can include other fiscal years if the extract lists them, and it is still obligations rather than outlays. This ties page stays on CFDA 93.658 in FY2026 only.

FY2026 as the Title IV-E yearlyTrend cell

Federal fiscal year 2026 is the time key on this yearlyTrend row. The year hub FY2026 federal spending at /fiscal-years/2026/ rolls up every program that year in the index, not only Foster Care Title IV-E. Reading $2,792,880,098 as all FY2026 federal obligations would over-read this cell. The join is one CFDA inside one fiscal year, not a Budget Appendix score.

56 FY2026 awards as a CFDA table, not a child census

The extract lists 56 awards on the Foster Care Title IV-E × FY2026 table. That is an award-record count for this yearlyTrend cell, not a census of children in foster care. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without naming a new organization. Dividing $2,792,880,098 by 56 is not published here as a typical award size, because the packet does not say the rows are comparable. The program-wide award count is 378, a different denominator.

Caseload rankings this IV-E–FY2026 join cannot support

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $2,792,880,098 is the former. Citing it as cash already cleared on Foster Care Title IV-E in FY2026 over-reads the field. The join cannot say that Foster Care Title IV-E expanded in FY2026 because of a policy success metric this packet omits. Keep $2,792,880,098 labeled as Foster Care Title Iv-E obligations in fiscal year 2026.

Budget justifications, program evaluations, and press releases answer other questions. They are not the source of this cell. If a chart mixes a different CFDA with FY2026 or a different fiscal year with Foster Care Title Iv-E, the chart has left this join. State agency names, child counts, and placement types are unpublished on this packet.

Hubs for CFDA 93.658 × FY2026

Open /programs/93.658/ for CFDA 93.658, /fiscal-years/2026/ for FY2026 federal spending, /programs/ (All programs) for other catalog lines, and /ties/ (All spending ties) for other pairs. None of those links convert this cell into a state ranking or a named foster-care provider list, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite both sides: Foster Care Title Iv-E and FY2026, $2,792,880,098, USAspending.gov, obligations only.

Questions

How much did Foster Care Title IV-E obligate in FY2026?

USAspending.gov records $2,792,880,098 in Foster Care Title Iv-E obligations for fiscal year 2026 (CFDA 93.658) across 56 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the pair, not an outlay and not the program-wide $30,186,483,529.

Is Foster Care Title IV-E in FY2026 cash already paid to states?

No. $2,792,880,098 is an obligation sum, not an outlay. Payments from the Treasury can lag or differ. This packet has no outlay total for Foster Care Title IV-E in FY2026. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Does 56 awards mean 56 children in foster care in FY2026?

No. 56 is an award-record count for the FY2026 cell, not a census of children in foster care. Unique recipients and places of performance are unpublished. The program-wide count is 378. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the CFDA number and the fiscal year in the citation.

Which pages parent Foster Care Title IV-E and FY2026?

/programs/93.658/ is the program parent. /fiscal-years/2026/ is the FY2026 parent. /programs/ lists programs. /ties/ lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes Foster Care Title IV-E × FY2026 at $2,792,880,098.