National Science Foundation federal obligations in Massachusetts

NSF and Massachusetts as a coding pair

This tie retains USAspending rows where NSF is the awarding agency and Massachusetts is the place of performance. The dollar total is $2,589,576,327. The award count is 2,279. Those facts describe an intersection in the award file. They do not show that NSF funding caused Massachusetts research output, or that the state’s lab cluster caused NSF’s nationwide budget.

Place-of-performance on research awards often follows a campus, a lab, or a lead institution. Subawards to other states can sit outside this cell even when the science is collaborative. The 2,279 figure counts award records in the extract, not unique principal investigators.

NSF directorate tables, Higher Education R&D survey dollars, and patent counts are other products. They are not this join. A reader who treats $2,589,576,327 as a league table of campuses has left the packet. Recipient names are not facts here; open the overlay if a structured recipient list is required.

Two thousand awards under $2.59 billion

Dividing $2,589,576,327 by 2,279 awards yields an implied mean near $1,136,277. That blended average mixes standard research grants with larger center or facility vehicles. This packet has no directorate split, no median, and no university-level table.

A 2,279-row tape is busier than a cabinet department’s short formula file and thinner than a high-volume loan book. Cite volume and dollars together. USAspending.gov is the source.

Massachusetts research campuses often serve as lead institutions on multi-state collaborations. Lead-institution coding can pull dollars into the 2,279-row Massachusetts cell even when co-investigators sit elsewhere. The reverse is also true. This packet does not net those flows. $2,589,576,327 remains an awarding-agency 049 × Massachusetts place-of-performance sum, not a map of every lab that touched an NSF award.

Massachusetts statewide versus NSF nationwide

Massachusetts’s all-agency hub includes Defense, HHS, and every other awarding agency with performance in the state. $2,589,576,327 is only NSF. NSF’s national hub includes every state. This join is the overlap, nothing more.

Readers sometimes treat an NSF-in-state total as a league table of campuses. The packet does not name recipients. Open the overlay for structured rows; do not infer a ranking this page does not publish.

A later extract can move both the dollar total and the 2,279-award count. Cite the current packet facts with the obligation label. Do not convert $2,589,576,327 into a campus ranking or into Treasury cash. The overlay is the live table if this snapshot and the hub diverge.

Research obligations are still not cash

NSF awards often span multiple years. $2,589,576,327 is the obligation stock on the tagged rows, not a single-year appropriation and not outlays already drawn by labs. SpendingVault does not convert the Massachusetts NSF cell into Treasury cash.

Publication counts, citation metrics, and R&D survey tables are other products. They are not this award-file join. Cite $2,589,576,327 and 2,279 awards as USAspending obligations for agency 049 × Massachusetts.

Using the overlay and parent hubs

The Massachusetts × NSF overlay holds the tables behind the join. The Massachusetts state page and the NSF agency page are the parents. The ties index lists other state–agency pairs on the same obligation basis.

None of those views add a directorate mix or a unique-PI count this packet omits.

How to cite NSF in Massachusetts

Cite USAspending.gov: National Science Foundation (awarding agency 049) obligated $2,589,576,327 on 2,279 awards coded to Massachusetts. Keep the obligation label. Keep both sides of the join. Do not report the cell as Massachusetts’s full federal total or as NSF’s national book.

Later bulk files can revise both dollars and the 2,279-award count. This page is a packet snapshot. The overlay is the live table. The implied mean near $1,136,277 is a quotient of the two packet facts, not a typical research grant.

Questions

How much NSF funding is obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov shows $2,589,576,327 in National Science Foundation obligations coded to Massachusetts across 2,279 awards. Awarding-agency 049 and Massachusetts place of performance define the join. The figure is obligations, not outlays.

Which universities received the NSF Massachusetts total?

This packet does not name recipients. $2,589,576,327 and 2,279 awards are statewide coding totals. Recipient lists, if needed, belong on the overlay tables, still under the same obligation definition.

What is the average NSF award in Massachusetts?

The implied mean is about $1,136,277 from $2,589,576,327 divided by 2,279 awards. That quotient is blended across grant sizes. The packet has no median and no directorate split.

Are NSF obligations in Massachusetts the same as research outlays?

No. $2,589,576,327 is an obligation sum. Outlays are cash draws and can lag on multi-year awards. SpendingVault does not convert this cell into cash.