National Science Foundation obligations in Colorado 2nd District (CO-02)

NSF × CO-02 is a research-award join, not a PI census

This page is a join: National Science Foundation (agency 049) as awarding agency, and Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) as congressional district place of performance. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations to $1,798,816,171.60 on 495 awards. The join is awarding-agency 049 crossed with a CO-02 location field, not Colorado’s entire research budget and not a named-university or principal-investigator roster. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which district received more, and not a claim that 495 awards equal 495 investigators or 495 unique campuses.

NASA science, NIH (HHS) research, or NSF-coded awards in CO-01 sit outside this total unless they also carry agency 049 and CO-02. Mixing those books into $1,798,816,171.60 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and faculty headcount is not causation. PI names and proposal-success rates are not in the packet. Place of performance as CO-02 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $1,798,816,171.60 in a district treasury. Boulder-versus-Fort Collins folklore is not a geography split in this packet.

495 awards behind $1.80 billion

Mean obligation is about $3,633,972.06 if $1,798,816,171.60 were divided evenly across 495 lines. That ratio is not a published typical NSF grant and not a facility construction cost. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of investigators, campuses, or unique vendors. Four hundred ninety-five awards against a $1.80 billion cell can mix many research grants with a few large facility rows.

The overlay can list named lines; this narrative will not invent campuses or PIs. This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open Colorado 2nd District for the stored district table. Do not convert 495 into a map of Colorado 2nd District laboratories. The $1,798,816,171.60 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on the overlay rather than inferring a PI census.

Colorado 2nd District, not a Front Range university rollup

Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) is one geography tag on USAspending awards, not a commuting zone and not a metro list. Awards tagged to CO-01, CO-04, or another Colorado district are out even if the campus sounds related. Recipient address can differ from that district tag. The district parent in this extract is $12,688,286,519.69 across every awarding agency; $1,798,816,171.60 is the National Science Foundation slice — about 14.2% of that parent by arithmetic. Subtracting is tempting; this page still does not publish the leftover agency list.

A statewide NSF figure on Colorado federal spending mixes every district. Do not rank CO-02 against neighboring districts as a winner or loser. Other Colorado district cells are other joins. Colorado federal spending is the statewide book without a district filter. Adding statewide National Science Foundation dollars to $1,798,816,171.60 would double count. Campaign-finance filings are a different public-record system; this join does not claim donations funded these obligations.

Agency 049 obligations are not grants already drawn

NSF awards often obligate as assistance grants and cooperative agreements and draw as awardees spend. The $1,798,816,171.60 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of papers published and not a Treasury outlay total. A Award Search dashboard dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses agency 049, CO-02 geography, and the obligation metric.

National Science Foundation is the nationwide agency book without a CO-02 filter. This extract does not split research from education, and it does not split facilities from standard grants. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 495 awards, agency 049, and Colorado 2nd District. This page will not invent a share. Unique recipients remain unpublished.

What the CO-02 NSF table omits

The extract has no PI names, university names, or proposal IDs. Facts remain $1,798,816,171.60, 495 awards, agency 049, National Science Foundation, Colorado 2nd District (CO-02), and district parent $12,688,286,519.69. Campus folklore belongs on another extract if it appears at all. Keep the obligation label. Later ingests can revise both the dollars and the 495-award count; prefer the live table when the overlay and this snapshot diverge.

Where the NSF × CO-02 pair lives

Start with Colorado 2nd District for the district rollup that contains this National Science Foundation cell. National Science Foundation is the nationwide agency listing. Colorado federal spending gives Colorado context without a CO-02 filter. All spending ties indexes other two-key joins on the same obligation metric. 495 awards totaling this cell remain an administrative file, not a PI roster. Keep both National Science Foundation and Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) in every citation sentence. Do not recast $1,798,816,171.60 as cash already paid or as Colorado’s entire research appropriation. USAspending.gov remains the source; SpendingVault republishes the join.

Questions

How much NSF spending is obligated in Colorado 2nd District?

USAspending.gov shows $1,798,816,171.60 in National Science Foundation (agency 049) obligations with Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) as place of performance, across 495 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district’s full $12,688,286,519.69 parent. Other agencies sit outside this join unless they also carry 049.

Do 495 awards mean 495 NSF investigators in CO-02?

No. Award count is a row count of National Science Foundation actions tagged to CO-02. It is not a PI or campus census. Mean obligation of about $3,633,972.06 is a quotient of $1,798,816,171.60 and 495, not a typical grant size.

Does this NSF cell include NASA science in CO-02?

No. This page is awarding agency 049 only. NASA lines are other joins. $1,798,816,171.60 is about 14.2% of the Colorado 2nd District parent $12,688,286,519.69 by arithmetic. Cite USAspending.gov as the source.

Is the CO-02 NSF total already paid as outlays?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $1,798,816,171.60 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Grant draws and remaining balances are not published here.