National Science Foundation federal obligations in Michigan

NSF awards tagged to Michigan

National Science Foundation as awarding agency, Michigan as place-of-performance: 1,230 records summing to $879,568,630. A National Science Foundation award coded outside MI is out. An award in Michigan from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Michigan (MI) excludes Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Illinois. An Indiana-coded NSF award is the Indiana NSF join in this slice, not this cell.

One thousand two hundred thirty awards against $879,568,630 is a mid-count NSF file: more rows than Oregon’s 521, fewer than a USDA assistance flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,230 as 1,230 unique unique grants, papers, or named universities. National Science Foundation in Michigan is the both-keys table. Michigan federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Science Foundation is the agency book without an MI filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

This Michigan NSF join is not the Michigan SBA cell (agency 047). Keep 049 and 047 apart. Named campuses are unpublished. Correlation is not causation: Michigan did not cause $879,568,630 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 049 × MI only. Campaign contributions do not fund these USAspending awards.

1,230 rows are not 1,230 unique labs

$879,568,630 does not measure unique grants, papers, or named universities. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 049 and an MI place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,230 awards as a census of unique grants, papers, or named universities. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Michigan federal spending or National Science Foundation matched $879,568,630 and 1,230, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin NSF joins are other pairs, not addends.

Michigan statewide, not an Ann Arbor-only extract

Place of performance MI is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Michigan (MI) excludes Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Illinois. An Indiana-coded NSF award is the Indiana NSF join in this slice, not this cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This Michigan NSF join is not the Michigan SBA cell (agency 047). Keep 049 and 047 apart. Named campuses are unpublished. This packet does not split $879,568,630 by city, county, or named facility. 1,230 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Research vehicles still record obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $879,568,630 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Michigan confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Michigan’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,230-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $879,568,630. The compact headline $880 million is that same dollar total rounded, not a second extract.

Citing NSF in Michigan

Cite USAspending.gov: National Science Foundation (agency 049) obligated $879,568,630 on 1,230 awards coded to Michigan. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unique grants, papers, or named universities.

Prefer National Science Foundation in Michigan if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Michigan federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MI. National Science Foundation is the 049 parent without the MI filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $879,568,630. The implied mean near $715,096 is $879,568,630 divided by 1,230. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

One thousand two hundred thirty awards against $879,568,630 is a mid-count NSF file: more rows than Oregon’s 521, fewer than a USDA assistance flood. On this join the implied mean near $715,096 should not be treated as a typical award size. Without a distribution, $879,568,630 can be dominated by a few rows even when 1,230 is large, or by those same few rows when 1,230 is small. This page will not pretend to know which pattern holds. It keeps repeating the two facts and the two keys: National Science Foundation (049) and Michigan (MI). Place of performance still does not mean every dollar was disbursed locally. Obligations still do not mean outlays. This Michigan NSF join is not the Michigan SBA cell (agency 047). Keep 049 and 047 apart. Named campuses are unpublished.

Questions

How much has the National Science Foundation obligated in Michigan?

USAspending.gov records $879,568,630 across 1,230 awards with awarding agency 049 and a Michigan tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique grants, papers, or named universities. National Science Foundation in Michigan is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $879,568,630.

Is $879,568,630 a measure of unique grants, papers, or named universities?

No. The packet publishes $879,568,630 and 1,230 awards for agency 049 inside MI coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this NSF file have 1,230 awards?

That is the award-record count for 049 × MI. Combined with $879,568,630, the average is about $715,096. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,230 is not unique unique grants, papers, or named universities. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live NSF–Michigan table?

National Science Foundation in Michigan is the overlay. Michigan federal spending and National Science Foundation are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $879,568,630. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.