National Science Foundation federal obligations in Iowa

Reading $225,264,512 as a two-filter total

Start with the pair, not a story. National Science Foundation plus Iowa is the definition of this page. $225,264,512 is the obligation aggregate USAspending.gov reports for that pair. 376 is the accompanying award count. Nothing else in the packet adds a third total.

Behind $225,264,512 sit 376 recorded actions. That is a mid-size award list. A long list is not automatically many distinct projects, and a short list is not automatically one project. The packet does not include a unique-award or unique-recipient field.

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

Division is not a typical-award study

Keep $599,107.74 labeled as a mean. Do not call it a typical research-grant award in Iowa. Typical would require a distribution, and the packet has only a sum and a count. National Science Foundation in Iowa remains the live table.

The source note is unchanged: USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.

Iowa geography versus neighboring codes

Iowa federal spending collects every awarding agency tagged to Iowa. National Science Foundation collects every state tagged to National Science Foundation. Only National Science Foundation in Iowa is supposed to match $225,264,512 among those three links.

If a reader needs a city table, this packet is the wrong artifact. Statewide Iowa is the only geography grain published here.

No fiscal year is published in the facts

The sourceNote is: USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays. Repeating $225,264,512 as cash already spent in Iowa is a unit error, not a rounding error.

Cite USAspending.gov as the source. Do not cite FEC, Census, or a press office as the origin of $225,264,512. Those are other systems.

Donations do not fund this USAspending cell

No contractor, grantee, or beneficiary name is in the packet, so none is invented here. Unique campuses would live on the overlay if USAspending.gov lists them there.

Correlation is not causation. A large NSF cell in Iowa does not explain Iowa politics, and Iowa politics does not explain $225,264,512.

Closing the loop on agency 049 and IA

Reuse $225,264,512 only with both filters visible. Agency 049 without Iowa is National Science Foundation. Iowa without agency 049 is Iowa federal spending.

Des Moines is a reader landmark, not a published subtotal. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. This file copies overlayTarget /states/ia/agencies/049/ and canonicalPath /ties/national-science-foundation-in-iowa/ from the packet. It does not add a fiscal year, a contractor, or an FEC dollar. If the live overlay later disagrees with $225,264,512 or 376, trust the table and treat this prose as dated to the extract. Until then, the reusable facts are $225,264,512, 376 awards, agency 049, National Science Foundation, Iowa (IA), and the obligation unit. All spending ties is an index of joins, not a hidden total that already includes $225,264,512. National Science Foundation in Iowa remains the place to verify the live rows. Place-of-performance Iowa is statewide; it does not split Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Davenport. Neighbor-coded activity in Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, or Nebraska stays out even if mail is handled in Des Moines. Correlation is not causation. Campus-lab 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. River-town, farm-belt, and capital-city 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. Iowa's $225,264,512 cell stands alone. Do not subtract it from National Science Foundation and call the difference 'Iowa 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 Iowa 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 $225,264,512. The 376 figure is not a count of campuses 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 $599,107.74 is not a typical research-grant award.

Questions

What is the NSF obligation total for Iowa?

USAspending.gov records $225,264,512 in obligations for awarding agency 049 (National Science Foundation) with Iowa place of performance, covering 376 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 this Iowa NSF extract name campuses?

The extract lists 376 award actions totaling $225,264,512. Average obligation per award is about $599,107.74, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical research-grant award. Unique campuses are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Are neighboring NSF awards in this Iowa cell?

No. $225,264,512 and 376 awards are statewide Iowa place of performance. This packet does not split Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Davenport. Awards coded to Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, or Nebraska are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Des Moines. The geography key remains IA.

Where is the Iowa overlay for NSF agency 049?

National Science Foundation in Iowa is the overlay. Iowa 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.