National Science Foundation federal obligations in Colorado

NSF awards tagged to Colorado

This page is a join of two USAspending.gov fields: awarding agency National Science Foundation (code 049) and place-of-performance Colorado. The extract sums to $2,205,867,029.17 on 1,089 awards. Those facts describe a coding intersection. They do not show that National Science Foundation spending caused Colorado outcomes, or that Colorado caused the federal award book.

The pair is not a league table of Boulder or Fort Collins campuses. Correlation of an agency label with a state code is not causation. Place-of-performance can follow a lead campus, a lab, or a research contractor along the Front Range. Work tagged to Colorado can involve parties elsewhere, and Colorado 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 $2,205,867,029.17 leaves the USAspending award file. The 1,089 figure counts award records, including modifications present in the extract, not unique people, firms, or facilities.

Eleven hundred research rows under $2.21 billion

One thousand eighty-nine awards under a $2.21 billion book is a midsize research tape. Dividing $2,205,867,029.17 by 1,089 awards yields an implied mean near $2,025,590. 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 1,089 and $2,205,867,029.17. USAspending.gov is the source. SpendingVault does not recast $2,025,590 as a product schedule or a beneficiary payment.

Later ingests can revise $2,205,867,029.17 and 1,089. 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 Colorado.

Colorado statewide versus NSF nationwide

Colorado’s all-agency hub includes Defense, Energy, and every other awarding agency with performance in the state. $2,205,867,029.17 is only the National Science Foundation cell inside Colorado. The National Science Foundation national hub includes every state. This tie is the overlap, nothing more.

State budget documents in Colorado answer a different question. They are not the source of the 1,089 federal award records. If a chart mixes a General Fund table with this cell, the chart has left the USAspending.gov series.

Lead-institution coding can pull collaborative awards into the Colorado cell even when co-investigators sit elsewhere. This packet does not net those flows. $2,205,867,029.17 remains an awarding-agency 049 × Colorado place-of-performance sum, not a map of every lab 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. $2,205,867,029.17 is the first series. Using it as a proxy for checks already issued in Colorado 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 × Colorado, $2,205,867,029.17, 1,089 awards, obligations only.

Using the Colorado NSF overlay

The Colorado × National Science Foundation overlay holds the structured rows behind 1,089 awards and $2,205,867,029.17. The Colorado 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 $2,205,867,029.17 into outlays.

How to cite NSF in Colorado

Cite USAspending.gov: National Science Foundation (awarding agency 049) obligated $2,205,867,029.17 on 1,089 awards coded to Colorado. Keep both sides of the join. Do not drop Colorado and call the figure a national NSF total. Do not drop National Science Foundation and call it Colorado’s entire federal book.

The implied mean near $2,025,590 remains a ratio of two packet facts. Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete map of Colorado subcontractors. Do not convert the Colorado NSF cell into a campus ranking.

Questions

How much NSF funding is obligated in Colorado?

USAspending.gov shows $2,205,867,029.17 in National Science Foundation obligations coded to Colorado across 1,089 awards. Awarding-agency 049 and Colorado place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Which universities received the NSF Colorado total?

This packet does not name recipients. $2,205,867,029.17 and 1,089 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 Colorado?

The implied mean is about $2,025,590 from $2,205,867,029.17 divided by 1,089 awards. That quotient is blended across grant sizes. The packet has no median and no directorate split.

Are NSF obligations in Colorado the same as research outlays?

No. $2,205,867,029.17 is an obligation sum on 1,089 awards. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and can lag. SpendingVault does not convert this Colorado × NSF cell into cash.