National Science Foundation federal obligations in Louisiana

What the NSF–Louisiana join is

Awarding agency 049 and place-of-performance state LA meet here. $275,558,281 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not National Science Foundation's nationwide budget, not Louisiana's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. NSF in Louisiana is a research-grant cell, not a hurricane-recovery ledger and not an LSU campus roster. Campus-lab and research-grant folklore and port, petrochemical-corridor, and Gulf folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of universities or polar stations.

399 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a mid-size award list beside a large obligation total. A mid-size row list can mix large instruments with smaller service awards. The join does not rank Louisiana against other states and does not name campuses inside the extract. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Open National Science Foundation in Louisiana for the filtered table, Louisiana federal spending for the statewide hub, National Science Foundation for the agency hub, and All spending ties for other pairs. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $275,558,281.

399 NSF actions under one Louisiana filter

Dividing $275,558,281 by 399 yields about $690,622.26 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical research award. A second NSF slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Louisiana's 049 total as a synonym for every National Science Foundation bureau account.

Campus-lab and research-grant folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative's extra columns. Port, petrochemical-corridor, and gulf folklore may explain a search path. It does not add dollars.

Agency 049 without a Louisiana overlay is a different total

The agency-wide National Science Foundation page aggregates 049 without requiring LA geography. The Louisiana federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Louisiana place of performance. Only National Science Foundation in Louisiana applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 399 awards and $275,558,281.

Place of performance in Louisiana is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list LA while later research occurs in Texas or Mississippi. NSF awards coded to those places do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in New Orleans. This packet does not split New Orleans from Baton Rouge or Shreveport. New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport are reader landmarks, not packet subtotals.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $275,558,281 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Louisiana over-reads the field. USAspending.gov is the source named in the packet.

Award count 399 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use National Science Foundation in Louisiana. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug. Keep the obligation word in every reuse of $275,558,281.

What this pair does not prove

A large NSF total in Louisiana does not mean the agency caused Louisiana's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between port, petrochemical-corridor, and Gulf folklore and NSF awards is expected; it is not a finding about waste or program quality. No performance metric is in the packet.

Keep $275,558,281 labeled as agency 049 obligations with Louisiana place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. Do not claim that donations paid for $275,558,281 in Louisiana. No contractor names are in the packet, and none are invented.

How to cite the Louisiana–NSF pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 049 (National Science Foundation), Louisiana place of performance, $275,558,281 in obligations, and 399 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $275,558,281 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $690,622.26 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical research award.

National Science Foundation in Louisiana, Louisiana federal spending, National Science Foundation, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $275,558,281 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. New Orleans-versus-Baton Rouge folklore is not a metro split in this packet. Campuses names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Correlation is not causation. NSF in Louisiana is a research-grant cell, not a hurricane-recovery ledger and not an LSU campus roster.

Questions

How much has National Science Foundation obligated in Louisiana?

USAspending.gov records $275,558,281 in obligations for awarding agency 049 (National Science Foundation) with Louisiana place of performance, covering 399 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not National Science Foundation's nationwide budget. Agency 049 is the awarding-agency key on the join.

Does this total include every Louisiana research award?

The extract lists 399 award actions totaling $275,558,281. Average obligation per award is about $690,622.26, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical research award. Unique campuses are not published here. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is this a New Orleans-only NSF total?

No. $275,558,281 and 399 awards are statewide Louisiana place of performance. This packet does not split New Orleans from Baton Rouge or Shreveport. Awards coded to Texas or Mississippi are outside this cell even if mail is handled in New Orleans.

Where is the live NSF–Louisiana table?

National Science Foundation in Louisiana is the overlay. Louisiana 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 USAspending.gov. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.