National Science Foundation federal obligations in Kentucky

The join, not a Kentucky ranking

$174,793,855 is a cell, not a trophy. USAspending.gov stores it at the intersection of National Science Foundation (agency 049) and Kentucky place of performance. 233 awards accompany the dollar figure.

Readers looking for campus-lab and research-grant folklore will still find only those two numbers. The packet has no program list, no NAICS column, and no recipient names.

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

From 233 rows to $750,188.22

Per-award arithmetic is $174,793,855 divided by 233, about $750,188.22. High or low means describe the ratio, not the quality of National Science Foundation work in Kentucky.

Because modifications add rows, 233 can grow without a matching increase in unique campuses. Keep the field name: awardCount.

Mail in Louisville is not a subtotal

Louisville is the landmark most searchers know. This extract does not publish a Louisville subtotal. The grain is statewide Kentucky, covering Louisville, Lexington, and Frankfort as unnamed parts of KY.

Neighbor-coded activity in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, or West Virginia belongs on other overlays. Do not fold it into $174,793,855.

Commitments versus payments

Obligations record commitments. Outlays record payments. This page's $174,793,855 is the first of those two. Mixing them produces a false cash story.

Cancellations and recoveries would also change a cash story. They are not packet facts. Leave them off quotations of $174,793,855.

No FEC dollars in this cell

Campaign contributions do not fund $174,793,855. The source is USAspending.gov. FEC files that share a place name remain a different dataset.

The page also does not rank Kentucky against other states. $174,793,855 stands alone as the National Science Foundation × Kentucky join.

Paths that keep $174,793,855 attached to both sides

Use National Science Foundation in Kentucky to inspect rows. Use Kentucky federal spending for the all-agency Kentucky hub. Use National Science Foundation for agency 049 without geography. Use All spending ties for other pairs.

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-city, bluegrass, 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. Kentucky's $174,793,855 cell stands alone. Do not subtract it from National Science Foundation and call the difference 'Kentucky 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 Kentucky 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 $174,793,855. The 233 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 $750,188.22 is not a typical research-grant award. Louisville is a reader landmark, not a published subtotal. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. This file copies overlayTarget /states/ky/agencies/049/ and canonicalPath /ties/national-science-foundation-in-kentucky/ from the packet. It does not add a fiscal year, a contractor, or an FEC dollar. If the live overlay later disagrees with $174,793,855 or 233, trust the table and treat this prose as dated to the extract. Until then, the reusable facts are $174,793,855, 233 awards, agency 049, National Science Foundation, Kentucky (KY), and the obligation unit. All spending ties is an index of joins, not a hidden total that already includes $174,793,855. National Science Foundation in Kentucky remains the place to verify the live rows. Place-of-performance Kentucky is statewide; it does not split Louisville, Lexington, and Frankfort. Neighbor-coded activity in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, or West Virginia stays out even if mail is handled in Louisville. Repeat the pair before any reuse: National Science Foundation in Kentucky. Repeat the source: USAspending.gov. Repeat the unit: obligations, not outlays. The overlay path /states/ky/agencies/049/ and the canonical path /ties/national-science-foundation-in-kentucky/ describe the same join. Internal links stay limited to the four packet hrefs. No other URL is added. No recipient, contractor, or donor name is invented to fill space. The facts remain the dollar total, the award count, the agency code, the agency name, the state name, and the state code.

Questions

How large is National Science Foundation spending in Kentucky on USAspending?

USAspending.gov records $174,793,855 in obligations for awarding agency 049 (National Science Foundation) with Kentucky place of performance, covering 233 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.

Can I treat $750,188.22 as a typical NSF award in Kentucky?

The extract lists 233 award actions totaling $174,793,855. Average obligation per award is about $750,188.22, 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.

Does $174,793,855 include awards performed in West Virginia?

No. $174,793,855 and 233 awards are statewide Kentucky place of performance. This packet does not split Louisville, Lexington, and Frankfort. Awards coded to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, or West Virginia are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Louisville. The geography key remains KY.

Which links belong with this NSF–Kentucky join?

National Science Foundation in Kentucky is the overlay. Kentucky 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.