International broadcasting grantee funding in the District of Columbia

Seven awards, one DC × 90.500 cell

This page reports the intersection of CFDA 90.500 and District of Columbia place of performance. $551,022,482 is the obligation sum on records that match both keys. The national 90.500 program page includes every geography tagged to that catalog. The District of Columbia spending page includes every CFDA. This tie is neither parent; it is the seven-award cell. The overlay International Broadcasting Independent Grantee Organizations in District of Columbia is the table that still adds to those two facts.

CFDA 90.500 is titled INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING INDEPENDENT GRANTEE ORGANIZATIONS. Independent grantees often keep headquarters or fiscal agents in the District even when programming is produced for audiences abroad. Place of performance DC therefore does not mean the broadcasts stay inside the Beltway, and it does not mean the $551,022,482 was spent on District residents. The packet does not name the seven recipients, list languages, or split the dollars by radio versus digital.

Seven awards is an extremely concentrated count for more than half a billion dollars. Assistance to a short list of grantee organizations typically posts as a few large instruments rather than thousands of small vendor invoices. The join still does not prove that programming volume, audience size, or a particular overseas crisis caused the obligation total. Correlation is not causation.

What the implied mean hides

About $78,717,497 per award ($551,022,482 ÷ 7) is a mean of seven large instruments, not a typical freelance contract. With n = 7 the mean is dominated by whichever award is largest. The packet has no median, no range, and no fiscal-year breakout. Downward modifications in the raw USAspending file, if any, are already netted into $551,022,482 rather than shown as a separate column.

Cite both facts. A high dollar with a single-digit award count is expected for independent-grantee broadcasting assistance. SpendingVault does not recast $78,717,497 as a cost per hour of programming. USAspending.gov is the source; the only numbers on this page are $551,022,482, 7 awards, CFDA 90.500, and DC place of performance.

District geography versus District-wide spending

Awards tagged to the District of Columbia can reflect headquarters coding even when work occurs overseas. This packet does not reallocate those dollars to foreign countries. Awards tagged to other states sit outside the cell. $551,022,482 is not the District’s complete federal obligation footprint; other programs appear on the District of Columbia programs index. A reader who treats the seven-award cell as the District’s entire foreign-affairs or media budget has left the CFDA-by-place definition.

FEC contribution records for District donors do not finance this USAspending cell. Campaign-finance files and federal award files share a geography label and nothing else. This page does not rank CFDA 90.500 against other District catalogs because those other totals are not in the facts.

Obligations are not broadcast outlays

The $551,022,482 figure is an obligation sum. Cash drawn by independent grantees can trail the obligation date. This page does not publish a 90.500-in-DC outlay total. Mixing audience metrics, language-service counts, or editorial output with this award file leaves the USAspending series. Direct federal broadcasting operations, if they exist under other catalogs, are not this CFDA 90.500 independent-grantee line.

Cite the join as CFDA 90.500 × District of Columbia, $551,022,482, 7 awards, obligations only.

Parent tables for the pair

Use International Broadcasting Independent Grantee Organizations in District of Columbia for the overlay rows behind $551,022,482 on 7 awards. Recipient slices on that hub still add toward the same two facts. CFDA 90.500 is the national catalog. District of Columbia federal spending and District of Columbia programs are the statewide (District-wide) parents. All spending ties lists other program–place pairs built the same way.

None of those links convert the cell into an audience rating or into outlays this packet omits.

Questions

How much international broadcasting grantee funding is in DC?

USAspending.gov shows $551,022,482 in CFDA 90.500 obligations coded to the District of Columbia across 7 awards. The join uses the program number and DC place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays, and it does not measure overseas audience size.

Why are there only 7 awards for $551 million?

Independent-grantee broadcasting assistance often posts as a few large awards rather than many small invoices. The extract counts 7 records tagged to CFDA 90.500 and the District. $551,022,482 ÷ 7 is about $78,717,497 per award. That mean is not a typical vendor invoice; the packet does not name the grantees.

Does DC place of performance mean the money stayed in the District?

No. Headquarters or fiscal-agent coding can place an award in the District even when programming is produced for audiences abroad. $551,022,482 is the obligation sum on DC-tagged 90.500 records, not a local-resident spending total.

Is $551 million the District’s full federal spending?

No. $551,022,482 is only the CFDA 90.500 cell. Other programs with District place of performance sit on the District of Columbia programs index. Nationwide 90.500 is not limited to DC. Cite $551,022,482 and 7 awards as the independent-grantee broadcasting intersection, not as an all-agency District total.