National Science Foundation federal obligations in Alabama

Foundation 049 meeting Alabama

National Science Foundation as awarding agency, Alabama as place-of-performance: 502 records summing to $363,240,463.22. A National Science Foundation award coded outside AL is out. An award in Alabama from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alabama (AL) excludes Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. A Huntsville-coded award with a Tennessee place-of-performance tag is a different cell.

502 awards against $363,240,463.22 is a 502-award research-agency file, close to Minnesota’s 533-row NSF join. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 502 as 502 unique named campuses, principal investigators, or STEM-seat counts. National Science Foundation in Alabama is the both-keys table. Alabama federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Science Foundation is the agency book without an AL filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Directorates are not split on this aggregate. Do not invent campuses or principal investigators. Correlation is not causation: Alabama did not cause $363,240,463.22 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 049 × AL only.

Campus folklore is unpublished

$363,240,463.22 does not measure named campuses, principal investigators, or STEM-seat counts. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 049 and an AL place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 502 awards as a census of named campuses, principal investigators, or STEM-seat counts. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Alabama federal spending or National Science Foundation matched $363,240,463.22 and 502, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state NSF joins are other pairs, not addends.

Alabama, not a Huntsville-only map

Place of performance AL is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Alabama (AL) excludes Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. A Huntsville-coded award with a Tennessee place-of-performance tag is a different cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not split $363,240,463.22 by city, county, or named facility. 502 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Campaign-finance filings do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Five hundred two NSF obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $363,240,463.22 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Alabama confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Alabama’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 502 awards USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $363,240,463.22. Sharing a geography with National Science Foundation does not mean FEC donations funded these awards.

Citing the National Science Foundation in Alabama

Cite USAspending.gov: National Science Foundation (agency 049) obligated $363,240,463.22 on 502 awards coded to Alabama. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as named campuses, principal investigators, or STEM-seat counts.

Prefer National Science Foundation in Alabama if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Alabama federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to AL. National Science Foundation is the 049 parent without the AL filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $363,240,463.22.

A usable footnote names National Science Foundation, Alabama, $363,240,463.22, and 502. The compact headline $363.2M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $723,586.58 is $363,240,463.22 divided by 502. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has National Science Foundation obligated in Alabama?

USAspending.gov records $363,240,463.22 across 502 awards with awarding agency 049 and a Alabama tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Alabama’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.

Do 502 NSF awards mean 502 Alabama universities?

No. $363,240,463.22 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 049 × AL. It does not measure named campuses, principal investigators, or STEM-seat counts. Those series are not fields on this aggregate. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Why does this NSF file have 502 awards?

502 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $363,240,463.22 by 502 yields about $723,586.58 as a mean, not a typical project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Where is the live table for National Science Foundation in Alabama?

National Science Foundation in Alabama is the overlay for both keys. Alabama federal spending is the all-agency Alabama hub. National Science Foundation is the agency parent. All spending ties indexes other spending ties. Prefer the overlay when both filters must stay on.