National Science Foundation federal obligations in Montana

How National Science Foundation and Montana meet

Read $136,344,072 as a two-key extract: National Science Foundation (agency 049) and Montana. Correlation is not causation. A large cell does not prove Montana received too much or too little, and a small cell does not prove the reverse.

155 recorded actions accompany the dollar. That mid-size count is not a census of unique campuses or principal investigators. Repeat the pair — agency 049 and Montana — whenever the dollar is reused.

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

A 155-row research-grant file

Behind $136,344,072 the extract counts 155 actions. Average obligation per award is about $879,639.17, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical research-grant award.

A research-grant, campus-lab, and STEM story can be researched elsewhere. Here those words are unlabeled because the packet has no NAICS, CFDA, or program column.

Bozeman is not a published geography grain

National Science Foundation is National Science Foundation without a state filter. Montana federal spending is Montana without an agency filter. This slug is the intersection. Citing the nationwide NSF book as if it were Montana's $136,344,072 cell is a misread of the join.

No metro split of Bozeman, Missoula, and Billings is published here. Awards coded to North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, or Idaho are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Billings. The overlay path already encodes both the state tag and agency 049.

Agency 049 without a fiscal-year split

$136,344,072 records commitments tagged to National Science Foundation and Montana. Payments, recoveries, and cancellations would live in other fields. This extract does not publish those fields.

155 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 Montana for the live table. Agency 049 is the awarding-agency key stored on that overlay.

Do not invent NSF campuses

The join is descriptive. $136,344,072 does not prove that Montana 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 Montana 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.

Where National Science Foundation in Montana sits

National Science Foundation in Montana remains the place to verify the live rows. All spending ties is an index of joins, not a hidden total that already includes $136,344,072. Place-of-performance Montana is statewide; it does not split Bozeman, Missoula, and Billings. Neighbor-coded activity in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, or Idaho stays out even if mail is handled in Billings. 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. High-plains, rocky-mountain, and prairie 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. Montana's $136,344,072 cell stands alone. Do not subtract it from National Science Foundation and call the difference 'Montana 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 Montana 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 $136,344,072. The 155 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 $879,639.17 is not a typical research-grant award. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. This file copies overlayTarget /states/mt/agencies/049/ and canonicalPath /ties/national-science-foundation-in-montana/ from the packet. It does not add a fiscal year, a contractor, or an FEC dollar. If the live overlay later disagrees with $136,344,072 or 155, trust the table and treat this prose as dated to the extract. Until then, the reusable facts are $136,344,072, 155 awards, agency 049, National Science Foundation, Montana (MT), and the obligation unit.

Questions

What is the NSF obligation total for Montana?

USAspending.gov records $136,344,072 in obligations for awarding agency 049 (National Science Foundation) with Montana place of performance, covering 155 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 Montana mean a typical research grant?

The extract lists 155 award actions totaling $136,344,072. Average obligation per award is about $879,639.17, 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 Bozeman from Missoula?

No. $136,344,072 and 155 awards are statewide Montana place of performance. This packet does not split Bozeman, Missoula, and Billings. Awards coded to North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, or Idaho are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Billings. The geography key remains MT.

How do I open the Montana overlay for NSF agency 049?

National Science Foundation in Montana is the overlay. Montana 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.