Geosciences federal obligations in FY2024 (CFDA 47.050)
$5,125,970,436 in USAspending.gov obligations tags Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) to fiscal year 2024. 2,530 awards carry that yearlyTrend cell. The pair is a catalog listing plus a fiscal-year key, not an earthquake catalog, a field-station census, or a climate-model ranking. USAspending.gov is the source. Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Geosciences FY2024: $5,125,970,436 in USAspending obligations (CFDA 47.050).
- FY2024 is 84.2% of the program-wide $6,091,320,688 book in this extract.
- The year cell lists 2,530 awards; the program parent lists 3,893.
- The join is Geosciences × FY2024, not an earthquake catalog, a field-station census, or a climate-model ranking.
- Figures are obligations, not outlays.
How CFDA 47.050 meets FY2024 in the award file
This page is a join: Geosciences and fiscal year 2024. $5,125,970,436 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on the yearlyTrend row that carries both tags. It is not every federal dollar in FY2024, not an outlay register, and not an earthquake catalog, a field-station census, or a climate-model ranking. The FY cell is 84.2% of the program-wide $6,091,320,688 book in this extract. A different fiscal year for CFDA 47.050 is a separate overlay. Campaign-finance tables are a different dataset; FEC donations do not fund these USAspending obligations.
CFDA 47.050 is the listing without the year filter. FY2024 federal spending is the year without this CFDA filter. All programs lists other catalog hubs. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Only this tie applies both filters. 2,530 is the year-cell award-record count; the program parent lists 3,893 awards across the extract. Those counts are different tables.
Geosciences as the program side of the FY2024 join
The official title is GEOSCIENCES. SpendingVault does not grade Geosciences. $5,125,970,436 is an obligation sum, not a verdict. Confusing this join with other science-education or research catalog lines that are not CFDA 47.050 would be a different table. Packet facts on the program side are the name Geosciences, number 47.050, program-wide obligations $6,091,320,688, and 3,893 awards on the parent. This packet lists no award recipients and no contractor names.
Geosciences is a short catalog title on CFDA 47.050, so the number belongs in the citation. FY2024 is the yearlyTrend year, not a count of eruptions, quakes, or cruises. The packet publishes no subfield split (atmosphere, ocean, earth, or polar). Investigator names are unpublished. Do not treat the cell as a natural-hazard scoreboard.
What fiscal year 2024 contributes on CFDA 47.050
FY2024 is a USAspending yearlyTrend bucket, not a calendar-year close and not a claim that every obligated dollar was delivered inside calendar 2024. Awards can list FY2024 while performance stretches across adjacent years. FY figures can be incomplete for a current year; this snapshot reports $5,125,970,436 as given. Other fiscal years for CFDA 47.050 belong on those ties. Do not treat $6,091,320,688 as if it were the FY2024 headline.
2,530 awards on the FY2024 cell, not a unit census
The extract lists 2,530 awards on Geosciences in FY2024. That is an award-record count, not 2,530 unique investigators or 2,530 field sites. Dividing $5,125,970,436 by 2,530 yields about $2,026,075.27 as a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical invoice and not a median. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without naming a new organization. Do not mix $5,125,970,436 with the parent’s 3,893 awards.
Obligations on Geosciences are not cash already cleared in FY2024
An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $5,125,970,436 is the former. Citing it as cash already cleared in FY2024 over-reads the field. The join cannot say that fiscal year 2024 specialized in Geosciences because of federal demand. Keep $5,125,970,436 labeled as Geosciences obligations in FY2024. It is not a named-university roster, a cruise-day inventory, or an earth-science workforce table.
Open /programs/47.050/ for the program rollup, /fiscal-years/2024/ for the fiscal-year rollup, /programs/ for other CFDA hubs, and /ties/ for other pairs. None of those links convert this cell into an earthquake catalog, a field-station census, or a climate-model ranking, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite both sides: Geosciences and FY2024, CFDA 47.050, $5,125,970,436, 2,530 awards, USAspending.gov, obligations only. Keep Geosciences and FY2024 on the same line as $5,125,970,436. CFDA 47.050 remains the program key; fiscal year 2024 remains the time key. Obligations of $5,125,970,436 are not outlays and not a named-university roster, a cruise-day inventory, or an earth-science workforce table. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this yearlyTrend cell.
Questions
- How much Geosciences spending is in FY2024?
- USAspending.gov records $5,125,970,436 in Geosciences obligations for FY2024 (CFDA 47.050). That is a program × year join, not an outlay and not the government-wide FY2024 total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep Geosciences and FY2024 together when citing $5,125,970,436.
- Do 2,530 awards mean 2,530 geoscience field sites in FY2024?
- No. 2,530 is the year-cell award-record count, not 2,530 unique investigators or 2,530 field sites. A mean of about $2,026,075.27 is arithmetic on packet facts, not a typical payment. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
- Is $5,125,970,436 cash already paid for Geosciences in FY2024?
- No. $5,125,970,436 is an obligation aggregate for Geosciences in FY2024. Outlays, remaining balances, and cash already paid are unpublished on this packet. Keep the obligation label. USAspending.gov remains the source. Keep Geosciences and FY2024 together when citing $5,125,970,436.
- Which pages parent Geosciences FY2024?
- CFDA 47.050 is the program parent. FY2024 federal spending is the year parent. All programs lists other CFDA hubs. All spending ties lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes Geosciences × FY2024 at $5,125,970,436.
USAspending.gov CFDA program yearlyTrend by fiscal year. Obligations are not outlays.