National Science Foundation federal obligations in Rhode Island

Foundation 049 overlapping Rhode Island

National Science Foundation as awarding agency, Rhode Island as place-of-performance: 396 records summing to $249,227,496. A National Science Foundation award coded outside RI is out. An award in Rhode Island from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Rhode Island (RI) excludes Massachusetts and Connecticut. A Westerly-coded award with a Connecticut place-of-performance tag is a different cell.

396 awards against $249,227,496 is a 396-award science-foundation file, thick in records against a $249.2 million cell. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 396 as 396 unique named grants, unique principal investigators, or publication counts. National Science Foundation in Rhode Island is the both-keys table. Rhode Island federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Science Foundation is the agency book without an RI filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Named grants, unique principal investigators, and publication counts stay unpublished. Do not invent university or contractor names. Correlation is not causation: Rhode Island did not cause $249,227,496 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 049 × RI only.

NSF is not a PI census

$249,227,496 does not measure named grants, unique principal investigators, or publication counts. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 049 and an RI place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 396 awards as a census of named grants, unique principal investigators, or publication counts. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Rhode Island federal spending or National Science Foundation matched $249,227,496 and 396, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state NSF joins are other pairs, not addends.

Rhode Island, not a Providence-only tag

Place of performance RI is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Rhode Island (RI) excludes Massachusetts and Connecticut. A Pawtucket-coded award with a Massachusetts place-of-performance tag is a different cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not split $249,227,496 by city, county, or named facility. 396 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Campaign-finance filings do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Three hundred ninety-six obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $249,227,496 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Rhode Island confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Rhode Island’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 396 awards 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 $249,227,496. Sharing a geography with National Science Foundation does not mean FEC donations funded these awards.

Citing NSF in Rhode Island

Cite USAspending.gov: National Science Foundation (agency 049) obligated $249,227,496 on 396 awards coded to Rhode Island. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as named grants, unique principal investigators, or publication counts.

Prefer National Science Foundation in Rhode Island if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Rhode Island federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to RI. National Science Foundation is the 049 parent without the RI filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $249,227,496.

A usable footnote names National Science Foundation, Rhode Island, $249,227,496, and 396. The compact headline $249.2M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $629,362.36 is $249,227,496 divided by 396. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Science dollars without a named-grant roster

Rhode Island’s NSF overlay is 396 awards totaling $249,227,496. Named grants, unique principal investigators, and publication counts stay unpublished. Do not invent university or contractor names. Adding parent hubs into $249,227,496 would invent a combined Rhode Island total. Keep 049 × RI as the pair. No fiscal year is published in this packet. Keep the obligation label on $249,227,496. Unique recipients stay unpublished. FEC filings are a different dataset.

Questions

How much has National Science Foundation obligated in Rhode Island?

USAspending.gov records $249,227,496 across 396 awards with awarding agency 049 and a Rhode Island tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Rhode Island’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.

Does $249.2 million name Rhode Island NSF grants?

No. $249,227,496 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 049 × RI. It does not measure named grants, unique principal investigators, or publication counts. Those series are not fields on this aggregate. The join is a catalog intersection, not an outcome score. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Why does this Rhode Island NSF file have 396 awards?

396 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $249,227,496 by 396 yields about $629,362.36 as a mean, not a typical project and not a median. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not invent contractor names. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Where is the live table for National Science Foundation in Rhode Island?

National Science Foundation in Rhode Island is the overlay for both keys. Rhode Island federal spending is the all-agency Rhode Island hub. National Science Foundation is the agency parent. All spending ties indexes other spending ties. Prefer the overlay when both filters must stay on.