National Science Foundation federal obligations in Ohio

NSF awards tagged to Ohio

This page is a join of two USAspending.gov fields: awarding agency National Science Foundation (code 049) and place-of-performance Ohio. The extract sums to $1,161,592,062.09 on 819 awards. Those facts describe a coding intersection. They do not show that National Science Foundation spending caused Ohio outcomes, or that Ohio caused the federal award book.

The pair is not a league table of Columbus, Cleveland, or Cincinnati campuses. Correlation of an agency label with a state code is not causation. Place-of-performance can follow a lead campus, a research lab, or a contractor. Work tagged to Ohio can involve parties elsewhere, and Ohio work can be coded to another state.

Higher Education R&D survey dollars, citation metrics, and patent counts are other products. Mixing any of those series with $1,161,592,062.09 leaves the USAspending award file. The 819 figure counts award records, including modifications present in the extract, not unique people, firms, or facilities.

Eight hundred nineteen research rows under $1.16 billion

Eight hundred nineteen awards under a $1.16 billion book is a midsize research tape. Dividing $1,161,592,062.09 by 819 awards yields an implied mean near $1,418,305. That quotient is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical award size and not a median. A few large vehicles can pull the average while many smaller rows sit below it.

Volume and dollars are different columns. Cite both 819 and $1,161,592,062.09. USAspending.gov is the source. SpendingVault does not recast $1,418,305 as a product schedule or a beneficiary payment.

Later ingests can revise $1,161,592,062.09 and 819. This prose is a packet snapshot. The overlay is the live table. If those two disagree, use the overlay. Keep the obligation label so the cell is not read as cash already paid in Ohio.

Ohio statewide versus NSF nationwide

Ohio’s all-agency hub includes Defense, Energy, and every other awarding agency with performance in the state. $1,161,592,062.09 is only the National Science Foundation cell inside Ohio. The National Science Foundation national hub includes every state. This tie is the overlap, nothing more.

State budget documents in Ohio answer a different question. They are not the source of the 819 federal award records. If a chart mixes a General Fund table with this cell, the chart has left the USAspending.gov series.

Lead-institution coding can pull collaborative awards into the Ohio cell even when co-investigators sit elsewhere. This packet does not net those flows. $1,161,592,062.09 remains an awarding-agency 049 × Ohio place-of-performance sum, not a map of every lab that touched an NSF award.

Research obligations are still not cash

An obligation records a legal commitment on an award. An outlay records cash leaving the Treasury. $1,161,592,062.09 is the first series. Using it as a proxy for checks already issued in Ohio will misstate timing. SpendingVault does not convert this cell into cash.

Multi-year vehicles can remain open after the obligation posts. Cite the pair as agency 049 × Ohio, $1,161,592,062.09, 819 awards, obligations only.

Using the Ohio NSF overlay

The Ohio × National Science Foundation overlay holds the structured rows behind 819 awards and $1,161,592,062.09. The Ohio state page and the National Science Foundation agency page are the parents. The ties index lists other state–agency pairs on the same obligation basis.

Those views do not add a program-code mix or a unique-recipient count this packet omits. They also do not convert $1,161,592,062.09 into outlays.

How to cite NSF in Ohio

Cite USAspending.gov: National Science Foundation (awarding agency 049) obligated $1,161,592,062.09 on 819 awards coded to Ohio. Keep both sides of the join. Do not drop Ohio and call the figure a national NSF total. Do not drop National Science Foundation and call it Ohio’s entire federal book.

The implied mean near $1,418,305 remains a ratio of two packet facts. Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete map of Ohio subcontractors. Do not convert the Ohio NSF cell into a campus ranking.

Questions

How much NSF funding is obligated in Ohio?

USAspending.gov shows $1,161,592,062.09 in National Science Foundation obligations coded to Ohio across 819 awards. Awarding-agency 049 and Ohio place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Which universities received the NSF Ohio total?

This packet does not name recipients. $1,161,592,062.09 and 819 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 Ohio?

The implied mean is about $1,418,305 from $1,161,592,062.09 divided by 819 awards. That quotient is blended across grant sizes. The packet has no median and no directorate split.

Are NSF obligations in Ohio the same as research outlays?

No. $1,161,592,062.09 is an obligation sum on 819 awards. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and can lag. SpendingVault does not convert this Ohio × NSF cell into cash.