National Science Foundation federal obligations in District of Columbia

NSF awards tagged to the District

National Science Foundation as awarding agency, District of Columbia as place-of-performance: 583 records summing to $1,700,170,481.48. A National Science Foundation award coded outside DC is out. An award in District of Columbia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. District of Columbia (DC) excludes Maryland and Virginia. A College Park or Arlington-coded award is not this cell even if the PI commutes.

Five hundred eighty-three awards against $1,700,170,481.48 is a mid-thin NSF file on a DC tag — headquarters geography, not a count of every NSF award in the country. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 583 as 583 unique grantees, unique PIs, or named directorates. The overlay National Science Foundation in District of Columbia is the both-keys table. District of Columbia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Science Foundation is the agency book without a DC filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Place of performance in the District is not NSF’s nationwide obligation total. BIO, ENG, and other directorates are unpublished splits. Correlation is not causation: District of Columbia did not cause $1,700,170,481.48 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 049 × DC only.

Not a nationwide NSF research budget

$1,700,170,481.48 does not measure grantees, unique PIs, or named directorates. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 049 and a DC place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 583 awards as a census of grantees, unique PIs, or named directorates. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If District of Columbia federal spending or National Science Foundation matched $1,700,170,481.48 and 583, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Maryland and Virginia NSF joins are other pairs, not addends.

D.C. geography is not every campus award

Place of performance DC is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. District of Columbia (DC) excludes Maryland and Virginia. A College Park or Arlington-coded award is not this cell even if the PI commutes. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Place of performance in the District is not NSF’s nationwide obligation total. BIO, ENG, and other directorates are unpublished splits. This packet does not split $1,700,170,481.48 by city, county, or named facility. 583 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Headquarters-tagged obligations versus outlays

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,700,170,481.48 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in District of Columbia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

District of Columbia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 583-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $1,700,170,481.48.

Citing NSF in the District

Cite USAspending.gov: National Science Foundation (agency 049) obligated $1,700,170,481.48 on 583 awards coded to District of Columbia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as grantees, unique PIs, or named directorates.

Prefer National Science Foundation in District of Columbia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. District of Columbia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to DC. National Science Foundation is the 049 parent without the DC filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,700,170,481.48.

A usable footnote names National Science Foundation, District of Columbia, $1,700,170,481.48, and 583. The compact headline $1.70 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $2.92 million is $1,700,170,481.48 divided by 583. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the National Science Foundation obligated in District of Columbia?

USAspending.gov records $1,700,170,481.48 across 583 awards with awarding agency 049 and a District of Columbia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of grantees, unique PIs, or named directorates. National Science Foundation in District of Columbia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,700,170,481.48.

Is $1,700,170,481.48 a measure of grantees, unique PIs, or named directorates?

No. The packet publishes $1,700,170,481.48 and 583 awards for agency 049 inside DC coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this NSF file have 583 awards?

That is the award-record count for 049 × DC. Combined with $1,700,170,481.48, the average is about $2.92 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 583 is not unique grantees, unique PIs, or named directorates. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live NSF–District of Columbia table?

National Science Foundation in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending and National Science Foundation are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $1,700,170,481.48. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays. Place of performance is DC.