National Science Foundation obligations in California 50th District (CA-50)

NSF × CA-50 is a research join, not a campus ranking

This page is a join: National Science Foundation and California 50th District (CA-50). SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $598,879,419 on 308 awards for awarding agency 049 with California 50th District (CA-50) as place of performance. Agency 049 crossed with California 50th District (CA-50) is a research-award intersection, not a San Diego campus census and not California's entire NSF book. Treat the pair as a table intersection, not a ranking of districts as winners or losers, and not a claim that 308 awards equal that many campuses, PIs, or named laboratories.

NASA, Energy, or Defense research awards sit outside this cell unless they also carry agency 049 and CA-50 geography. Correlation between this obligation sum and local activity statistics is not causation. Those statistics are not in the packet. Place of performance as CA-50 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $598,879,419 in a district treasury. Campaign contributions recorded on FEC.gov do not fund this USAspending cell.

308 Foundation rows behind a $599 million book

Three hundred eight records is a mid-size assistance file. Modifications can sit next to base awards; unique recipients are unpublished. Mean obligation is about $1.94 million if $598,879,419 were divided evenly across 308 lines. That ratio is a quotient of two packet facts, not a published typical award. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards, including possible modifications. It is not a census of campuses, PIs, or named laboratories. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Agency code 049 is the National Science Foundation. The awarding-agency tag does not name campuses, investigators, or facilities. This packet lists none of them. Campus names and PI lists are unpublished. Three hundred eight awards are not three hundred eight laboratories. Open California 50th District (/districts/CA-50/) for the stored district table and National Science Foundation (/agencies/049/) for the national agency shelf. The $598,879,419 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards.

California 50th District as NSF place of performance

California 50th District (CA-50) is a congressional place-of-performance code. CA-12 NSF on this harvest is a different pair. A CA-49-coded Foundation award is another cell. The district's all-agency obligation total is $36,686,940,294.44. $598,879,419 is the National Science Foundation slice of that book, about 1.6%. Remaining district dollars sit with other awarding agencies on California 50th District, not inside this join. California federal spending (/states/ca/) is the statewide parent.

An obligation is a recorded commitment. An outlay is a payment. The $598,879,419 headline is the obligation sum, not research already performed or equipment already delivered. No fiscal year is attached in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Citing the figure as cash already sent in California 50th District (CA-50) confuses two USAspending concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

NSF obligations are not lab hours already billed

The extract has no roster of campuses, PIs, or named laboratories. Facts remain $598,879,419, 308 awards, agency 049 (National Science Foundation), California 50th District (CA-50), and a district-wide book of $36,686,940,294.44. This page will not invent a contractor league table. Sibling district-agency joins are separate obligation totals, not a better or worse score. Confusing this join with a statewide NSF total or a university ranking would be a different overlay.

Keep the obligation word on $598,879,419. Keep both National Science Foundation and California 50th District (CA-50) in the citation. All spending ties (/ties/) indexes other pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of California spending or of National Science Foundation's national book the packet never computed. The $598,879,419 figure is the tagged pair only.

Citing agency 049 in California 50th District (CA-50)

A clean footnote names National Science Foundation (agency 049), California 50th District (CA-50), $598,879,419 in obligations, and 308 awards on USAspending.gov. Start at /districts/CA-50/ for the district overlay, /agencies/049/ for the agency rollup, /states/ca/ for California statewide spending, and /ties/ for other pairs. If a later ingest moves the live overlay, prefer the overlay when the table and this snapshot diverge. A ties page exists because two tables meet.

Questions

How much did National Science Foundation obligate in California 50th District (CA-50)?

USAspending.gov shows $598,879,419 in obligations for National Science Foundation (agency 049) with California 50th District (CA-50) as place of performance, across 308 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district's entire federal-spending total.

Do 308 awards mean 308 NSF laboratories in CA-50?

No. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards and can include continuations. It is not a census of campuses, PIs, or named laboratories. The packet does not name recipients. Mean obligation of about $1.94 million is a quotient, not a typical published award.

Is this California's entire National Science Foundation book?

No. The join is awarding agency 049 crossed with CA-50 place of performance. The district-wide book on this extract is $36,686,940,294.44. Related agencies and other districts are not inside $598,879,419 unless they also carry both keys.

Is the National Science Foundation total in CA-50 already spent?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $598,879,419 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.