Head Start federal obligations in Washington

One hundred forty grantee records, one statewide cell

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 93.600 meets Washington place of performance. The dollar book is $1,646,190,540.99. The award count is 140. Head Start commonly posts as many prime grants to community action agencies, school districts, tribal organizations, and related nonprofits. One hundred forty records do not equal 140 centers; continuations and modifications can share the tape.

The join does not prove that Washington’s child-poverty rate, Seattle-area cost of living, or tribal geography caused $1,646,190,540.99. Those are other series. This packet does not split Early Head Start from Head Start. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as Washington’s full HHS obligation book has left the CFDA-by-state definition. TANF (CFDA 93.558) is a different cell on the same stack. The 140 figure is a record count, not a child-enrollment total.

Thicker tape than Arizona’s Head Start cell, similar dollars

One hundred forty awards under $1,646,190,540.99 imply a mean near $11,758,504 per award. Large urban grantees can sit above that average; smaller rural or tribal grants can sit below it. The packet has no median.

A thicker award tape with a similar dollar magnitude to other states’ Head Start cells is a filing pattern, not a judgment about classroom quality. Cite both columns. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a typical center budget.

Washington’s 93.600 cell versus IHS compact funds

Washington’s state hub stacks every CFDA with performance coded to the state. Head Start is one HHS line; Tribal Self-Governance Program IHS Compacts (a different catalog number) is another. $1,646,190,540.99 is not Washington’s 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 Washington even when sites span several counties. This packet does not reallocate slots. Read the overlay as a coding view of 140 awards.

Obligations versus program-year cash

The $1,646,190,540.99 figure is an obligation sum. Grantee drawdowns can trail the obligation date. SpendingVault does not publish a 93.600-in-Washington 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 × Washington, $1,646,190,540.99, 140 awards, obligations only.

Parent pages

The Washington × Head Start overlay is the table view. Recipient slices on that hub still sum toward $1,646,190,540.99 on 140 awards. The Washington spending page and the CFDA 93.600 program page are the parents. The Washington programs index and the ties index list other pairs.

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

What Washington Head Start is not

Head Start in Washington is not a ranking of Puget Sound counties and not a count of tribal classrooms. The $1,646,190,540.99 figure is the CFDA 93.600 × Washington cell. One hundred forty awards describe grantee-scale filing, not 140 centers. Early Head Start that still carries 93.600 is not split in this packet.

TANF and IHS compact funds in Washington are different HHS catalog numbers. A thicker Head Start tape than Arizona’s 70-award cell does not mean Washington served more children; it means more prime records. Cite 93.600 and Washington together, keep the obligation label, and keep the 140-award count. Program-year drawdowns can lag the obligation.

Washington’s Head Start cell also does not include PIR enrollment, tribal-versus-urban grantee flags, or licensed-capacity inventories. Those series live with HHS. SpendingVault cites USAspending.gov obligations only: CFDA 93.600 × Washington, $1,646,190,540.99, 140 awards. If a later extract revises the 140-row tape, the implied mean near $11,758,504 moves with it. Quote the packet facts and the overlay path rather than a classroom story.

Keep both sides of the join in any citation: Head Start and Washington, obligations only, 140 awards on $1,646,190,540.99.

Questions

How much Head Start spending is in Washington?

USAspending.gov shows $1,646,190,540.99 in CFDA 93.600 obligations coded to Washington across 140 awards. The join uses the program number and Washington place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does 140 awards mean 140 Head Start centers?

No. The extract counts 140 award records tagged to CFDA 93.600 and Washington. Continuations and modifications can appear as separate records. The implied mean is about $11,758,504 per award from the two packet facts.

Is $1.65 billion Washington’s full federal spending?

No. $1,646,190,540.99 is only the Head Start cell. Other CFDA programs with Washington place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 93.600 is not limited to Washington.

Do these obligations equal cash paid to grantees?

No. $1,646,190,540.99 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Program-year drawdowns can lag the obligation.