National Science Foundation federal obligations in South Carolina

Foundation 049 meeting South Carolina

National Science Foundation as awarding agency, South Carolina as place-of-performance: 419 records summing to $249,056,940.22. A National Science Foundation award coded outside SC is out. An award in South Carolina from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. South Carolina (SC) excludes North Carolina and Georgia. A Rock Hill-coded award with a North Carolina place-of-performance tag is a different cell.

419 awards against $249,056,940.22 is a 419-award science-foundation file, thick in records against a $249.1 million cell. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 419 as 419 unique named grants, unique principal investigators, or publication counts. National Science Foundation in South Carolina is the both-keys table. South Carolina federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Science Foundation is the agency book without an SC filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Named grants, unique principal investigators, and publication counts stay unpublished. Rhode Island’s NSF overlay is a different pair. Correlation is not causation: South Carolina did not cause $249,056,940.22 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 049 × SC only.

NSF is not a publication census

$249,056,940.22 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 SC place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 419 awards as a census of named grants, unique principal investigators, or publication counts. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If South Carolina federal spending or National Science Foundation matched $249,056,940.22 and 419, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state NSF joins are other pairs, not addends.

South Carolina, not a Charleston-only map

Place of performance SC is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. South Carolina (SC) excludes North Carolina and Georgia. A North Augusta-coded award with a Georgia place-of-performance tag is a different cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not split $249,056,940.22 by city, county, or named facility. 419 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Campaign-finance filings do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Four hundred nineteen obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $249,056,940.22 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in South Carolina confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

South Carolina’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 419 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 $249,056,940.22. Sharing a geography with National Science Foundation does not mean FEC donations funded these awards.

Citing NSF in South Carolina

Cite USAspending.gov: National Science Foundation (agency 049) obligated $249,056,940.22 on 419 awards coded to South Carolina. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as named grants, unique principal investigators, or publication counts.

Prefer National Science Foundation in South Carolina if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. South Carolina federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to SC. National Science Foundation is the 049 parent without the SC filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $249,056,940.22.

A usable footnote names National Science Foundation, South Carolina, $249,056,940.22, and 419. The compact headline $249.1M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $594,407.97 is $249,056,940.22 divided by 419. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Science dollars without a campus roster

South Carolina’s NSF overlay is 419 awards totaling $249,056,940.22. Named grants, unique principal investigators, and publication counts stay unpublished. Rhode Island’s NSF overlay is a different pair. Adding parent hubs into $249,056,940.22 would invent a combined South Carolina total. Keep 049 × SC as the pair. No fiscal year is published in this packet. Keep the obligation label on $249,056,940.22. Unique recipients stay unpublished. FEC filings are a different dataset.

Questions

How much has National Science Foundation obligated in South Carolina?

USAspending.gov records $249,056,940.22 across 419 awards with awarding agency 049 and a South Carolina tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not South Carolina’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.

Does $249.1 million count South Carolina publications?

No. $249,056,940.22 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 049 × SC. 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 South Carolina NSF file have 419 awards?

419 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $249,056,940.22 by 419 yields about $594,407.97 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 South Carolina?

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