National Science Foundation federal obligations in Arizona

NSF and Arizona as a coding pair

This page is a join of two USAspending.gov fields: awarding agency National Science Foundation (code 049) and place-of-performance Arizona. The extract sums to $1,250,983,070.21 on 832 awards. Those facts describe a coding intersection. They do not show that National Science Foundation spending caused Arizona outcomes, or that Arizona caused the federal award book.

The pair is not a league table of Tucson or Tempe campuses or a telescope inventory. Correlation of an agency label with a state code is not causation. Place-of-performance can follow a lead campus, an observatory site, or a research contractor. Work tagged to Arizona can involve parties elsewhere, and Arizona work can be coded to another state.

Higher Education R&D survey dollars, citation metrics, and patent counts are other products. Mixing any of those series with $1,250,983,070.21 leaves the USAspending award file. The 832 figure counts award records, including modifications present in the extract, not unique people, firms, or facilities.

Eight hundred thirty-two research rows under $1.25 billion

Eight hundred thirty-two awards under a $1.25 billion book is a midsize research tape. Dividing $1,250,983,070.21 by 832 awards yields an implied mean near $1,503,585. That quotient is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical award size and not a median. A few large vehicles can pull the average while many smaller rows sit below it.

Volume and dollars are different columns. Cite both 832 and $1,250,983,070.21. USAspending.gov is the source. SpendingVault does not recast $1,503,585 as a product schedule or a beneficiary payment.

Later ingests can revise $1,250,983,070.21 and 832. This prose is a packet snapshot. The overlay is the live table. If those two disagree, use the overlay. Keep the obligation label so the cell is not read as cash already paid in Arizona.

Arizona statewide versus NSF nationwide

Arizona’s all-agency hub includes Interior, Defense, and every other awarding agency with performance in the state. $1,250,983,070.21 is only the National Science Foundation cell inside Arizona. The National Science Foundation national hub includes every state. This tie is the overlap, nothing more.

State budget documents in Arizona answer a different question. They are not the source of the 832 federal award records. If a chart mixes a General Fund table with this cell, the chart has left the USAspending.gov series.

Observatory and university lead-institution coding can pull collaborative awards into the Arizona cell even when co-investigators sit elsewhere. This packet does not net those flows. $1,250,983,070.21 remains an awarding-agency 049 × Arizona place-of-performance sum, not a map of every instrument that touched an NSF award.

Research obligations are still not cash

An obligation records a legal commitment on an award. An outlay records cash leaving the Treasury. $1,250,983,070.21 is the first series. Using it as a proxy for checks already issued in Arizona will misstate timing. SpendingVault does not convert this cell into cash.

Multi-year vehicles can remain open after the obligation posts. Cite the pair as agency 049 × Arizona, $1,250,983,070.21, 832 awards, obligations only.

Using the Arizona NSF overlay

The Arizona × National Science Foundation overlay holds the structured rows behind 832 awards and $1,250,983,070.21. The Arizona state page and the National Science Foundation agency page are the parents. The ties index lists other state–agency pairs on the same obligation basis.

Those views do not add a program-code mix or a unique-recipient count this packet omits. They also do not convert $1,250,983,070.21 into outlays.

How to cite NSF in Arizona

Cite USAspending.gov: National Science Foundation (awarding agency 049) obligated $1,250,983,070.21 on 832 awards coded to Arizona. Keep both sides of the join. Do not drop Arizona and call the figure a national NSF total. Do not drop National Science Foundation and call it Arizona’s entire federal book.

The implied mean near $1,503,585 remains a ratio of two packet facts. Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete map of Arizona subcontractors. Do not convert the Arizona NSF cell into a campus or telescope ranking.

Questions

How much NSF funding is obligated in Arizona?

USAspending.gov shows $1,250,983,070.21 in National Science Foundation obligations coded to Arizona across 832 awards. Awarding-agency 049 and Arizona place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Which universities received the NSF Arizona total?

This packet does not name recipients. $1,250,983,070.21 and 832 awards are statewide coding totals. Recipient lists, if needed, belong on the overlay tables, still under the same obligation definition.

What is the average NSF award in Arizona?

The implied mean is about $1,503,585 from $1,250,983,070.21 divided by 832 awards. That quotient is blended across grant sizes. The packet has no median and no directorate split.

Are NSF obligations in Arizona the same as research outlays?

No. $1,250,983,070.21 is an obligation sum on 832 awards. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and can lag. SpendingVault does not convert this Arizona × NSF cell into cash.