National Science Foundation obligations in Hawaii

What the NSF × Hawaii join publishes

$290,202,997.43 attaches only to awards that carry both National Science Foundation (agency 049) and Hawaii geography. Remove either filter and the total is a different number. Campus-lab, observatory, and research-grant folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. The join does not rank Hawaii against other states.

222 is a record count on the NSF–Hawaii overlay, not a headcount of unique campuses or observatories. 222 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a mid-size award list beside a large obligation total. This narrative does not invent contractor names.

Open National Science Foundation in Hawaii for the filtered table, Hawaii federal spending for the next hub, National Science Foundation for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Average versus typical research-grant award

The mean obligation of about $1,307,220.71 is arithmetic only. A mid-size award list can hide one large action among smaller modifications. Readers who need instrument type should use the overlay table, not this narrative. No contractor is named here because none appears in the packet facts.

If a later ingest restates $290,202,997.43, the join definition stays the same: agency 049 plus Hawaii place of performance. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved.

Hawaii is a geography tag, not a metro split

Drop the Hawaii geography tag and agency 049 still has a national total on National Science Foundation. Drop the agency tag and Hawaii still has a multi-agency total on Hawaii federal spending. Neither hub equals $290,202,997.43 on its own.

Honolulu, Hilo, and Kahului are reader landmarks, not packet subtotals. The geography key is statewide Hawaii. Headquarters folklore about Honolulu does not move $290,202,997.43.

Legal commitment, not cash paid

USAspending.gov distinguishes obligations from outlays. The source note on this packet is explicit: the $290,202,997.43 figure is an obligation aggregate, not cash paid. No fiscal year is published in the facts, so none is invented here.

Keep the obligation word in every reuse of $290,202,997.43. Hawaii federal spending and National Science Foundation use the same unit on their own filters. Mixing units across hubs produces a false statewide cash story.

FEC filings are a different dataset

Campus-lab, observatory, and research-grant folklore plus island, volcano, and ocean-research folklore can look like a story. The published facts are only $290,202,997.43, 222 awards, agency 049, and Hawaii. Anything else is outside the extract.

Do not claim that donations paid for $290,202,997.43 in Hawaii. The source is USAspending.gov award aggregates. FEC tables are out of scope for this join.

Repeating $290,202,997.43 with both filters named

If you need a one-line caption, use: NSF agency 049 × Hawaii = $290,202,997.43 across 222 awards (obligations, USAspending.gov). That caption already names both join sides and the unit.

All spending ties is an index of joins, not a hidden total that already includes $290,202,997.43. National Science Foundation in Hawaii remains the place to verify the live rows. Place-of-performance Hawaii is statewide; it does not split Honolulu, Hilo, and Kahului. Neighbor-coded activity in California-coded or other-state awards stays out even if mail is handled in Honolulu. Correlation is not causation. Campus-lab, observatory, and research-grant folklore can be a legitimate research question on another page. Here it is labeled folklore because the packet has no NAICS, CFDA, or program column. Island, volcano, and ocean-research folklore is the same kind of reader path: useful for search, unused as math. Agency 049 on a different state's overlay is a sibling join, not a remainder that must add to a national NSF budget on this page. Hawaii's $290,202,997.43 cell stands alone. Do not subtract it from National Science Foundation and call the difference 'Hawaii versus everywhere else' without a published national total in this packet — there is none. National Science Foundation is the awarding-agency label stored on the Hawaii overlay; the numeric key is 049. Readers who only remember the short name NSF still need both the state tag and the agency tag before quoting $290,202,997.43. The 222 figure is not a count of unique campuses or observatories and is not a count of distinct NSF programs. Modifications can add rows without adding new vendors. That is another reason the mean of about $1,307,220.71 is not a typical research-grant award. Observatory folklore is unused as math. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. This file copies overlayTarget /states/hi/agencies/049/ and canonicalPath /ties/national-science-foundation-in-hawaii/ from the packet. It does not add a fiscal year, a contractor, or an FEC dollar. If the live overlay later disagrees with $290,202,997.43 or 222, trust the table and treat this prose as dated to the extract. Until then, the reusable facts are $290,202,997.43, 222 awards, agency 049, National Science Foundation, Hawaii (HI), and the obligation unit.

Questions

What is the NSF obligation total for Hawaii?

USAspending.gov records $290,202,997.43 in obligations for awarding agency 049 (National Science Foundation) with Hawaii place of performance, covering 222 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not National Science Foundation's nationwide budget. The pair is a join, not a ranking.

Does the Hawaii NSF extract name campuses or observatories?

The extract lists 222 award actions totaling $290,202,997.43. Average obligation per award is about $1,307,220.71, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical research-grant award. Unique campuses or observatories are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Does the Hawaii NSF cell split Honolulu from Hilo?

No. $290,202,997.43 and 222 awards are statewide Hawaii place of performance. This packet does not split Honolulu, Hilo, and Kahului. Awards coded to California-coded or other-state awards are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Honolulu. The geography key remains HI.

How do I open the Hawaii overlay for NSF agency 049?

National Science Foundation in Hawaii is the overlay. Hawaii federal spending shows all agencies in the state. National Science Foundation shows agency 049 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.