Head Start federal obligations in North Carolina

Grantee-scale tape, statewide Head Start cell

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 93.600 meets North Carolina place of performance. The dollar book is $2,034,252,547.61. The award count is 181. Unlike Title I formula files that often post as a handful of SEA awards, Head Start commonly posts as many prime grants to community action agencies, school districts, and nonprofits. One hundred eighty-one records still do not equal 181 centers; modifications and continuation actions can share the tape.

The join does not prove that North Carolina’s child-poverty rate or licensed-slot inventory caused $2,034,252,547.61. Those are other series. This packet does not split Early Head Start from Head Start, and it does not list grantees. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as North Carolina’s full HHS obligation book has left the CFDA-by-state definition. The 181 figure is a record count, not a count of children served or classrooms licensed.

One hundred eighty-one awards and a blended mean

One hundred eighty-one awards under $2,034,252,547.61 imply a mean near $11,239,518 per award. Large urban grantees can sit well above that average; smaller rural grants can sit below it. The packet has no median and no share on the largest ten awards.

Compared with the four-award Title I cell in the same state, 181 rows is a thicker tape for a similar dollar magnitude. That contrast is a filing pattern, not a judgment about which program is larger in classrooms. Cite both columns. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a typical center budget.

North Carolina’s 93.600 cell versus parent rollups

North Carolina’s state hub stacks every CFDA with performance coded to the state. Head Start is one HHS line among many. $2,034,252,547.61 is not the statewide all-program total. The nationwide CFDA 93.600 page includes every state, so it is not this cell.

Place-of-performance for a multi-county grantee can sit on North Carolina even when sites span several counties. This packet does not reallocate slots. Read the overlay as a coding view of 181 awards.

Obligations versus program-year drawdowns

The $2,034,252,547.61 figure is an obligation sum. Grantee drawdowns across a program year can trail the obligation date. SpendingVault does not publish a 93.600-in-North-Carolina outlay total in this packet. Mixing enrollment or quality-rating statistics with this award file leaves the USAspending series.

Cite the join as CFDA 93.600 × North Carolina, $2,034,252,547.61, 181 awards, obligations only.

Tables and parent hubs

The North Carolina × Head Start overlay is the table view of the join. Recipient slices on that hub still sum toward $2,034,252,547.61 on 181 awards. The North Carolina spending page and the CFDA 93.600 program page are the parents. The North Carolina programs index and the ties index list other program–state pairs.

None of those links convert the cell into enrollment counts or into outlays this packet omits.

What North Carolina Head Start is not

Head Start in North Carolina is not a ranking of counties by preschool access and not a count of licensed classrooms. The $2,034,252,547.61 figure is the CFDA 93.600 × North Carolina cell. One hundred eighty-one awards describe grantee-scale filing, including continuations, not 181 centers. Early Head Start and seasonal programs that still carry 93.600 are not split in this packet.

Title I in the same state posts as a thin SEA tape on a different catalog number. The similar dollar magnitude and different award counts are a filing contrast, not a judgment about which program serves more children. Cite 93.600 and North Carolina together, keep the obligation label, and keep the 181-award count.

North Carolina’s Head Start cell also does not include Program Information Report enrollment, CLASS scores, or licensed-capacity inventories. Those series live with HHS and the state. SpendingVault cites USAspending.gov obligations only: CFDA 93.600 × North Carolina, $2,034,252,547.61, 181 awards. If a later extract revises the 181-row tape, the implied mean near $11,239,518 moves with it. Quote the packet facts and the overlay path rather than a classroom story.

Questions

How much Head Start spending is in North Carolina?

USAspending.gov shows $2,034,252,547.61 in CFDA 93.600 obligations coded to North Carolina across 181 awards. The join uses the program number and North Carolina place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does 181 awards mean 181 Head Start centers?

No. The extract counts 181 award records tagged to CFDA 93.600 and North Carolina. Continuations and modifications can appear as separate records. The implied mean is about $11,239,518 per award from the two packet facts.

Is $2.03 billion North Carolina’s full federal spending?

No. $2,034,252,547.61 is only the Head Start cell. Other CFDA programs with North Carolina place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 93.600 is not limited to North Carolina.

Do these obligations equal cash paid to grantees?

No. $2,034,252,547.61 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Program-year drawdowns can lag the obligation.