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Missing Children's Assistance awarded by Department of Justice

USAspending.gov records $455,794,714.45 in Missing Children'S Assistance obligations awarded by the Department of Justice. CFDA 16.543 via toptier agency 015 is the pair. This awarding-agency join publishes the same obligation total as the program extract ($455,794,714.45). The join lists 159 award records. That figure is not a missing-child census and not cash already paid.

Key figures

  • USAspending records $455,794,714.45 in Missing Children's Assistance via Justice (CFDA 16.543, agency 015).
  • The program extract publishes $455,794,714.45; the pair's published sum is $455,794,714.45.
  • 159 is the join award-record count, not a case census.
  • Obligations are not outlays; FEC donations do not fund this total.

What the 16.543–Justice join is

CFDA 16.543 and the Department of Justice (agency 015) meet in one program-agency cell. $455,794,714.45 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum tagged to that pair. It is not an outlay register, not a recovery tally, and not a count of cases. MISSING CHILDREN'S ASSISTANCE is the Catalog title; this packet does not split $455,794,714.45 among hotlines, clearinghouses, or task forces.

A missing-children cell invites a case-count story. Unique recipients are unpublished. This page will not name organizations or children. Correlation with abduction headlines is not causation.

The program book beside agency 015

This awarding-agency join publishes the same obligation total as the program extract ($455,794,714.45). Open /programs/16.543/ for CFDA 16.543 without requiring this agency filter, and /agencies/015/ for the Department of Justice hub without requiring this CFDA filter. Those parents are not addends to $455,794,714.45.

Other Justice juvenile or victim catalog lines are other keys. Mixing them into $455,794,714.45 would invent a combined children-services total the packet never computed. /programs/ lists every program; /ties/ indexes other pairs.

159 records are not 159 missing-child cases

159 is the award-record count on this CFDA 16.543 × agency 015 join. Dividing $455,794,714.45 by 159 would invent a typical assistance award the packet does not publish. Unique recipients remain unpublished.

What the Missing Children's Assistance Justice table omits

No outlay total, no case pie, no named organizations. FEC donation tables do not fund these USAspending obligations. Quote CFDA 16.543, agency 015, and $455,794,714.45 together. Obligations remain commitments.

Citing Missing Children's Assistance via Justice

Keep Missing Children'S Assistance and the Department of Justice on the same citation as $455,794,714.45. Use /programs/16.543/ for the program hub, /agencies/015/ for the agency hub, /programs/ for every program, and /ties/ for other joins.

The 159 award-record figure stays on this pair. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Obligations of $455,794,714.45 are not outlays. A later ingest can restate $455,794,714.45 without changing CFDA 16.543 or agency 015. Keep Missing Children'S Assistance and Department of Justice together when citing $455,794,714.45. CFDA 16.543 via agency 015 lists 159 award records on this join. Obligations of $455,794,714.45 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this CFDA 16.543 × agency 015 pair. Do not add parent hubs into this program-agency cell. Campaign-finance tables do not fund these USAspending obligations. Unique recipients remain unpublished on this Missing Children'S Assistance join. Quote CFDA 16.543, agency 015, and $455,794,714.45 in one sentence. The All programs index and All spending ties index are larger than this cell. A later USAspending ingest can restate $455,794,714.45 without changing the join keys. This awarding-agency join publishes the same obligation total as the program extract ($455,794,714.45). Place-of-performance and NAICS splits are omitted from this packet. Keep Missing Children'S Assistance and Department of Justice together when citing $455,794,714.45. CFDA 16.543 via agency 015 lists 159 award records on this join. Obligations of $455,794,714.45 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this CFDA 16.543 × agency 015 pair. Do not add parent hubs into this program-agency cell. Campaign-finance tables do not fund these USAspending obligations. Unique recipients remain unpublished on this Missing Children'S Assistance join. Quote CFDA 16.543, agency 015, and $455,794,714.45 in one sentence. The All programs index and All spending ties index are larger than this cell. A later USAspending ingest can restate $455,794,714.45 without changing the join keys. This awarding-agency join publishes the same obligation total as the program extract ($455,794,714.45). Place-of-performance and NAICS splits are omitted from this packet. Keep Missing Children'S Assistance and Department of Justice together when citing $455,794,714.45. CFDA 16.543 via agency 015 lists 159 award records on this join.

Questions

How much Missing Children's Assistance did Justice obligate?
USAspending.gov records $455,794,714.45 in Missing Children'S Assistance obligations awarded by the Department of Justice under CFDA 16.543 (agency 015). That amount is an obligation join, not an outlay. Keep Missing Children'S Assistance and Department of Justice on the same citation as $455,794,714.45.
Is $455,794,714.45 the entire CFDA 16.543 program total?
The program extract publishes $455,794,714.45. This join matches the program extract of $455,794,714.45. Do not add the program hub or the Justice hub into this cell as if they were extra dollars. 159 is the join award-record count, not a named-recipient census.
Do 159 awards mean 159 missing-child cases?
No. 159 is the award-record count on this program-agency join, not a case census. The packet does not name children, hotlines, or organizations. Obligations of $455,794,714.45 are not outlays. Obligations of $455,794,714 Keep both join sides in the citation.
Do campaign donations fund these Justice assistance awards?
No. FEC contribution tables and USAspending obligations are different datasets. This page reports USAspending.gov CFDA 16.543 via agency 015 only. USAspending.gov remains the source for CFDA 16.543 via agency 015. USAspending Keep both join sides in the citation.

USAspending.gov CFDA program joined to awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.