Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) federal obligations in Colorado

What this Geosciences–Colorado join is

CFDA 47.050 carries the catalog title Geosciences. Colorado is the place-of-performance state on the matching USAspending rows. $1,193,742,031 is the sum of obligations on records that carry both keys. The Colorado spending hub totals every CFDA in the state. The national Geosciences hub totals every state for 47.050. This page is the overlap, not a ranking of science agencies and not a claim that Colorado’s geology caused the awards.

Two hundred forty-seven awards is a moderate instrument count for a billion-dollar science cell. The mean near $4.83 million is an arithmetic average, not a typical field grant and not a median. Correlation between a research catalog code and a Rocky Mountain state tag is not causation.

CFDA 47.050, not every NSF or earth-science line

The catalog number is 47.050. Mathematical and Physical Sciences sits on a different CFDA. Other National Science Foundation assistance codes are not folded into $1,193,742,031. Mixing those lines would misstate this cell. The packet facts are the obligation total, 247 awards, state CO, and program 47.050. No laboratory roster and no fiscal-year series appear in the facts.

Geosciences as a catalog title describes the assistance type on the award file. It does not prove that every dollar funded a single mountain observatory, a single university, or a single subdiscipline. Place of performance can sit on a campus, a field site, or a statewide stamp that only says Colorado.

Colorado as a place-of-performance filter

Colorado is USAspending state code CO. A recipient headquartered elsewhere can still show CO if performance is coded there. Awards coded to Wyoming, Utah, or New Mexico stay on other state–program ties. $1,193,742,031 is not the Front Range’s private research budget and is not every federal dollar that touches earth science in the state.

Statewide Colorado federal spending is the parent table. CFDA 47.050 is one program inside that table. Readers who want every Colorado assistance line should use the state programs index rather than this single join.

Award count and the $4.83 million mean

Average obligation is about $4.83 million ($1,193,742,031 ÷ 247). That mean can hide a mix of large cooperative agreements and smaller awards. The packet does not publish a median, a maximum, or a year-by-year split. Treat 247 as the award-record count in the aggregate.

Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $1,193,742,031 as given in the USAspending program-by-state aggregate. Obligations are commitments recorded on the award file, not outlays that have already left the Treasury.

What the pair is not

A shared state tag does not mean Colorado selected these awards, and it does not mean Geosciences outlays equal $1,193,742,031 inside the state. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. The join does not rank Colorado against other states on scientific quality.

Continue from Geosciences in Colorado for the overlay table, CFDA 47.050 for the national program, Colorado federal spending for all agencies and programs, Colorado programs for other CFDA lines in the state, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Reading the overlay table next to the join

The overlay at Geosciences in Colorado is the tabular sibling of this prose page. It holds the same two keys—CFDA 47.050 and Colorado place of performance—without adding a fiscal-year series that the packet does not supply. If the overlay later shows a different obligation total than $1,193,742,031, treat the live table as the newer harvest and this copy as a narrative of the packet facts. Do not average the two figures. Award count 247 should be checked the same way: a later rebuild can add or drop rows when USAspending restates assistance records.

Researchers who need every Colorado assistance line should leave this join for the Colorado programs index. Researchers who need Geosciences in every state should use the national CFDA 47.050 hub. This page exists because those two filters meet. It does not convert earth-science obligations into a claim about Colorado’s mineral economy, and it does not treat 247 awards as the number of field seasons. Obligations remain commitments on the award file, not outlays already paid to laboratories or vessels.

Questions

How much Geosciences funding is obligated in Colorado?

USAspending records $1,193,742,031 in obligations for CFDA 47.050 with Colorado place of performance, covering 247 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for this pair, not outlays.

What is CFDA 47.050?

The catalog title is Geosciences. This page sums only that CFDA number inside Colorado. Other science assistance codes are separate ties and are not included in $1,193,742,031.

What is the average Geosciences award in Colorado?

Dividing $1,193,742,031 by 247 awards produces about $4.83 million per award. That mean is not a median and not a typical single-investigator grant.

Is this all federal spending in Colorado?

No. Only CFDA 47.050 is in this cell. Other programs appear on the Colorado programs index and on other state–program ties.