Foster Care Title IV-E obligations in Missouri

Missouri paired with CFDA 93.658

CFDA 93.658 is titled FOSTER CARE TITLE IV-E. Crossed with Missouri place of performance, obligations sum to $454,573,078 on 7 awards. The national 93.658 hub includes other states. Missouri’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $454,573,078 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of foster placements in St. Louis.

Seven awards is a Title IV-E pass-through: foster care often posts as a handful of large state instruments. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $454,573,078, 7 awards, MO, and 93.658. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep Foster Care Title IV-E and Missouri together when reading $454,573,078.

93.658 is not Adoption Assistance in Missouri

Adoption Assistance (CFDA 93.659) is a different catalog. Mixing those series into $454,573,078 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Missouri, CFDA 93.658, $454,573,078, 7 awards. Child counts, placement types, and county names are unpublished.

The catalog title names Foster Care Title IV-E, not a ranking of counties. Dividing $454,573,078 by 7 yields about $64.94 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 7 is not a child or placement census.

Missouri geography on the IV-E foster-care tag

MO is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Jefferson City, St. Louis, Kansas City, or other in-state sites can share the tag. Awards coded to Illinois, Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma, or Nebraska stay outside $454,573,078 even when activity later crosses those lines. The code does not convert $454.57 million into a courthouse map.

Missouri federal spending is the all-program parent. 93.658 is one row on Missouri programs. $454.57 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Foster Care Title Iv-E in Missouri for the filtered table, CFDA 93.658 for the catalog without a Missouri filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $454,573,078.

Reading 7 awards under $454.57 million

$454,573,078 ÷ 7 is about $64.94 million per award. That average is a IV-E pass-through scale, not a per-child maintenance payment, not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 7 as a record count, not as 7 placements.

Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 7 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $454,573,078 without changing the join key of 93.658 and MO. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $454,573,078 is the net total supplied in the facts. The pair remains Foster Care Title IV-E plus Missouri. Do not treat $454,573,078 as an outlay series.

What the 93.658–Missouri pair does not prove

A large 93.658 total tagged to Missouri does not measure whether time in care shortened, and it does not equal maintenance already paid to providers. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $454,573,078 on 7 awards for Foster Care Title IV-E in Missouri.

Keep both sides of the join: Foster Care Title Iv-E and Missouri, obligations only. Do not annualize $454,573,078 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 7 as a child or placement census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a child-welfare story. Cite Foster Care Title IV-E together with Missouri whenever you reuse $454,573,078.

Using the Foster Care IV-E–Missouri overlay

The overlay target is the Missouri × CFDA 93.658 table. Open Foster Care Title Iv-E in Missouri when you want the same $454,573,078 / 7-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 93.658 drops the Missouri filter. Missouri federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Missouri 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 Missouri won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 93.658 plus MO. Obligations of $454,573,078 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 93.658 × MO pair. 7 remains an award-record count, not a person, facility, or project census.

Questions

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

USAspending records $454,573,078 in CFDA 93.658 obligations with Missouri place of performance on 7 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Foster Care Title Iv-E and Missouri together when citing $454,573,078.

Does 7 awards mean 7 Missouri placements?

7 is a USAspending award-record count, not a child or placement census. The implied mean is about $64.94 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 7 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this Missouri’s total federal child-welfare spending?

No. This join is CFDA 93.658 only. Adoption assistance and other ACF catalogs appear on separate Missouri program pages. Nationwide 93.658 is not limited to Missouri. Obligations of $454,573,078 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Foster Care Title IV-E–Missouri table.

Do these obligations equal maintenance paid to providers?

No. $454,573,078 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 93.658 × MO pair.