National Science Foundation federal obligations in Maine

The published join of National Science Foundation and Maine

Two filters produce $119,374,811.18: awarding agency 049 (National Science Foundation) and place-of-performance Maine. Drop either filter and the total changes. Research-grant, campus-lab, and stem folklore can explain a search click; it does not add a third numeric key.

152 is a mid-size list of recorded actions, not a count of unique campuses or principal investigators. Modifications can add rows without adding new vendors. The overlay remains the place to inspect live rows.

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

A 152-row extract without an instrument pie

Keep $785,360.60 labeled as a mean. Do not call it a typical research-grant award in Maine. Typical would require a distribution, and the packet has only a sum and a count. The live table remains the overlay.

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

Orono is not a published geography split

National Science Foundation is National Science Foundation without a state filter. Maine federal spending is Maine without an agency filter. This slug is the intersection. Citing the nationwide NSF book as if it were Maine's $119,374,811.18 cell is a misread of the join.

No metro split of Orono, Portland, and Brunswick is published here. Awards coded to New Hampshire or Massachusetts are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Portland. The overlay path already encodes both the state tag and agency 049.

Reuse the obligation unit, not an outlay unit

$119,374,811.18 records commitments tagged to National Science Foundation and Maine. Payments, recoveries, and cancellations would live in other fields. This extract does not publish those fields.

152 actions can include modifications that change a prior obligation. That is why a record count is not a unique-project census. Use National Science Foundation in Maine for the live table. Agency 049 is the awarding-agency key stored on that overlay.

Correlation is not an NSF ranking

The join is descriptive. $119,374,811.18 does not prove that Maine received too much or too little National Science Foundation money, and it does not prove that National Science Foundation activity caused local outcomes. No performance metric is in the packet.

Campaign-finance filings do not fund this USAspending cell. National Science Foundation obligations in Maine and FEC receipts that mention similar words are separate public records. This page does not merge them. Unique campuses or principal investigators are unpublished here, so none are invented.

Overlay, statewide hub, and agency hub

National Science Foundation in Maine remains the place to verify the live rows. All spending ties is an index of joins, not a hidden total that already includes $119,374,811.18. Place-of-performance Maine is statewide; it does not split Orono, Portland, and Brunswick. Neighbor-coded activity in New Hampshire or Massachusetts stays out even if mail is handled in Portland. Correlation is not causation. Research-grant, campus-lab, and stem 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. Downeast, pine-tree, and coastal 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. Maine's $119,374,811.18 cell stands alone. Do not subtract it from National Science Foundation and call the difference 'Maine 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 Maine 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 $119,374,811.18. The 152 figure is not a count of unique campuses or principal investigators 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 $785,360.60 is not a typical research-grant award. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. This file copies overlayTarget /states/me/agencies/049/ and canonicalPath /ties/national-science-foundation-in-maine/ from the packet. It does not add a fiscal year, a contractor, or an FEC dollar. If the live overlay later disagrees with $119,374,811.18 or 152, trust the table and treat this prose as dated to the extract. Until then, the reusable facts are $119,374,811.18, 152 awards, agency 049, National Science Foundation, Maine (ME), and the obligation unit.

Questions

What is the NSF obligation total for Maine?

USAspending.gov records $119,374,811.18 in obligations for awarding agency 049 (National Science Foundation) with Maine place of performance, covering 152 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.

Is the NSF Maine mean a typical research grant?

The extract lists 152 award actions totaling $119,374,811.18. Average obligation per award is about $785,360.60, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical research-grant award. Unique campuses or principal investigators are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Does this cell split Orono from Brunswick?

No. $119,374,811.18 and 152 awards are statewide Maine place of performance. This packet does not split Orono, Portland, and Brunswick. Awards coded to New Hampshire or Massachusetts are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Portland. The geography key remains ME.

Which overlay shows NSF (049) in Maine?

National Science Foundation in Maine is the overlay. Maine 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.