National Science Foundation obligations in California 39th District (CA-39)

The California 39th District (CA-39) filter on NSF

Awarding agency 049 and congressional district CA-39 meet here. $78,090,720 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not National Science Foundation’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to California 39th District (CA-39), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split NSF directorates or contract versus assistance instruments. 135 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a grant-portfolio roster, a campus census, or a named-principal-investigator file.

Dividing $78,090,720 by 135 yields about $578,449.78 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 135 awards is a compact NSF file. The implied mean is a ratio of two packet facts, not a posted per-investigator figure. Do not treat CA-39’s 049 cell as a synonym for every NSF account nationwide. Open California 39th District for the district table without this agency filter, National Science Foundation for agency 049 without the CA-39 filter, California federal spending for every awarding agency in the California extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $78,090,720.

The National Science Foundation awarding-agency rollup

USAspending labels awarding agency 049 as National Science Foundation. That code produced $78,090,720 when crossed with California 39th District (CA-39) place of performance. The agency-wide 049 hub does not require CA-39 geography. The district hub does not require NSF. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 135 awards. The packet does not split NSF directorates or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: California 39th District (CA-39) did not “cause” $78,090,720 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 049 × CA-39 only. It is not a grant-portfolio roster, a campus census, or a named-principal-investigator file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.

Reading the CA-39 stamp

California 39th District (CA-39) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list CA-39 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other California districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 049. California 39th District (CA-39) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside California. Other California districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 049. California 39th District (CA-39) is not California 47th District. Same awarding-agency code 049, different place-of-performance stamp, different dollar total.

California federal spending shows how agency 049 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $78,090,720 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split California 39th District (CA-39) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to National Science Foundation. The district-wide obligation total published here is $2,216,466,669.65; $78,090,720 is the NSF slice of that denominator.

USAspending obligations on this pair

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $78,090,720 is that kind of sum for National Science Foundation inside CA-39 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $78,090,720 as given.

California’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 135-row NSF cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 135 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($578,449.78) is a concentration statistic, not a typical CA-39 NSF payment.

Citing $78,090,720 without dropping a join side

Cite USAspending.gov: National Science Foundation (agency 049) obligated $78,090,720 on 135 awards coded to California 39th District (CA-39). Name National Science Foundation and California 39th District (CA-39) together. Keep the obligation word. If California 39th District or National Science Foundation has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a grant-portfolio roster, a campus census, or a named-principal-investigator file. 3.5% of $2,216,466,669.65 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Row count versus dollar concentration

135 awards is a compact NSF file. The implied mean is a ratio of two packet facts, not a posted per-investigator figure. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $578,449.78) and the district share (3.5% of $2,216,466,669.65) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer California 39th District and National Science Foundation if the live tables moved.

Questions

How much NSF spending is coded to California 39th District (CA-39)?

USAspending.gov lists $78,090,720 in National Science Foundation obligations across 135 awards with place of performance in California 39th District (CA-39). Agency 049 × CA-39 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not California’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 3.5% of the district’s published total ($2,216,466,669.65). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $578,449.78, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $78,090,720 include every NSF program in CA-39?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split NSF directorates or contract versus assistance instruments. $78,090,720 is the combined obligation sum for agency 049 inside CA-39 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open National Science Foundation and California 39th District to inspect parent tables. 135 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $78,090,720 cash already paid in California 39th District (CA-39)?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $78,090,720 as checks already cleared in California 39th District (CA-39) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 135 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Why is the implied average $578,449.78 not a typical award?

The average is $78,090,720 divided by 135 awards, about $578,449.78. Thick files pull the mean down; thin files pull it up. Neither case publishes a typical instrument. Modifications add rows. Recipients are unpublished. Use the ratio only as a concentration statistic.