Foster Care Title IV-E obligations in Arizona

What the 93.658–Arizona join is

CFDA 93.658 is titled FOSTER CARE TITLE IV-E. Crossed with Arizona place of performance, obligations sum to $821,670,645.73 on 21 awards. The national Foster Care IV-E hub includes other states. Arizona’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $821,670,645.73 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of children in care in Phoenix or Tucson.

Twenty-one awards is a concentrated Title IV-E pattern: foster-care assistance typically posts as a modest number of large instruments to a state. The join does not name DCS, list counties, or count placements. Packet facts stop at $821,670,645.73, 21 awards, AZ, and 93.658. Correlation is not causation.

93.658 is not Adoption Assistance

Adoption Assistance (CFDA 93.659) is a different HHS catalog on this same slice. Mixing adoption dollars into $821,670,645.73 would invent a broader child-welfare total than this cell contains. Facts available: Arizona, CFDA 93.658, $821,670,645.73, 21 awards. Per-diem rates, tribal IV-E agreements, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Foster Care Title IV-E, not a ranking of time in care. Dividing $821,670,645.73 by 21 yields about $39.13 million per award—a state-agency scale. Unique recipients are unpublished. 21 is not a count of foster homes.

Arizona geography on the foster-care tag

AZ is the place-of-performance code. A statewide IV-E award can still appear as records tagged to Phoenix, Tucson, or another in-state address. Awards coded to California, New Mexico, Nevada, or Utah stay outside $821,670,645.73 even when a kinship network crosses those borders. The code does not convert $821.7 million into a county caseload map.

Arizona federal spending is the all-program parent. 93.658 is one row on Arizona programs. $821.7 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Foster Care Title Iv-E in Arizona for the filtered table, CFDA 93.658 for 93.658 without an Arizona filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $821,670,645.73.

Reading 21 awards under $821.7 million

$821,670,645.73 ÷ 21 is about $39.13 million per award. That average is a state-agency scale, not a typical monthly board payment. It is not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 21 as a record count, not as 21 finished placements.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $821,670,645.73 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 21 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $821,670,645.73 without changing the join key of 93.658 and AZ.

What the Foster Care–Arizona pair does not prove

A large 93.658 total tagged to Arizona does not measure whether caseloads fell, and it does not equal board payments to families. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $821,670,645.73 on 21 awards for Foster Care Title IV-E in Arizona.

Keep both sides of the join: Foster Care Title IV-E and Arizona, obligations only. Do not annualize $821,670,645.73 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 21 as a child census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a child-welfare story.

Using the Foster Care–Arizona overlay

The overlay target is the Arizona × CFDA 93.658 table. Open Foster Care Title Iv-E in Arizona when you want the same $821,670,645.73 / 21-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 93.658 drops the Arizona filter. Arizona federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Arizona programs lists other catalogs beside 93.658. All spending ties indexes 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 Arizona won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 93.658 plus AZ. Obligations of $821,670,645.73 are not outlays.

Questions

How much Foster Care Title IV-E funding is obligated in Arizona?

USAspending records $821,670,645.73 in CFDA 93.658 obligations with Arizona place of performance on 21 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not Adoption Assistance. Keep Foster Care Title Iv-E and Arizona together when citing $821,670,645.73.

Is this the same as Adoption Assistance in Arizona?

No. Foster Care Title IV-E is CFDA 93.658. Adoption Assistance uses CFDA 93.659. Mixing those catalogs would invent a total larger than $821,670,645.73. 21 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Does 21 awards mean 21 children?

21 is a USAspending award-record count, not a child or foster-home census. The implied mean is about $39.13 million per award. Unique recipients and caseload counts are unpublished. Obligations of $821,670,645.73 are not outlays.

Is $821.7 million Arizona’s full federal child-welfare spend?

No. $821,670,645.73 is only the 93.658 × Arizona cell. Adoption Assistance and other HHS catalogs appear on separate Arizona program pages. Nationwide 93.658 is not limited to Arizona. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 93.658 × AZ pair.