National Science Foundation obligations in Utah

What the NSF × Utah join publishes

$328,491,775.80 attaches only to awards that carry both National Science Foundation (agency 049) and Utah geography. Remove either filter and the total is a different number. Campus-lab and research-grant folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. The join does not rank Utah against other states.

450 is a record count on the NSF–Utah overlay, not a headcount of unique campuses. 450 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a mid-size award list beside a large obligation total. This narrative does not invent contractor names.

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

Average versus typical research-grant award

The mean obligation of about $729,981.72 is arithmetic only. A mid-size award list can hide one large action among smaller modifications. Readers who need instrument type should use the overlay table, not this narrative. No contractor is named here because none appears in the packet facts.

If a later ingest restates $328,491,775.80, the join definition stays the same: agency 049 plus Utah place of performance. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved.

Utah is a geography tag, not a metro split

Drop the Utah geography tag and agency 049 still has a national total on National Science Foundation. Drop the agency tag and Utah still has a multi-agency total on Utah federal spending. Neither hub equals $328,491,775.80 on its own.

Salt Lake City, Provo, and Logan are reader landmarks, not packet subtotals. The geography key is statewide Utah. Headquarters folklore about Salt Lake City does not move $328,491,775.80.

Legal commitment, not cash paid

USAspending.gov distinguishes obligations from outlays. The source note on this packet is explicit: the $328,491,775.80 figure is an obligation aggregate, not cash paid. No fiscal year is published in the facts, so none is invented here.

Keep the obligation word in every reuse of $328,491,775.80. Utah federal spending and National Science Foundation use the same unit on their own filters. Mixing units across hubs produces a false statewide cash story.

FEC filings are a different dataset

Campus-lab and research-grant folklore plus Wasatch campus and high-desert research folklore can look like a story. The published facts are only $328,491,775.80, 450 awards, agency 049, and Utah. Anything else is outside the extract.

Do not claim that donations paid for $328,491,775.80 in Utah. The source is USAspending.gov award aggregates. FEC tables are out of scope for this join.

Repeating $328,491,775.80 with both filters named

If you need a one-line caption, use: NSF agency 049 × Utah = $328,491,775.80 across 450 awards (obligations, USAspending.gov). That caption already names both join sides and the unit.

All spending ties is an index of joins, not a hidden total that already includes $328,491,775.80. National Science Foundation in Utah remains the place to verify the live rows. Place-of-performance Utah is statewide; it does not split Salt Lake City, Provo, and Logan. Neighbor-coded activity in Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, or Colorado stays out even if mail is handled in Salt Lake City. Correlation is not causation. Campus-lab and research-grant 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. Wasatch campus and high-desert research 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. Utah's $328,491,775.80 cell stands alone. Do not subtract it from National Science Foundation and call the difference 'Utah 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 Utah 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 $328,491,775.80. The 450 figure is not a count of unique campuses 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 $729,981.72 is not a typical research-grant award. Campus names belong on the overlay table if they appear as recipients. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. This file copies overlayTarget /states/ut/agencies/049/ and canonicalPath /ties/national-science-foundation-in-utah/ from the packet. It does not add a fiscal year, a contractor, or an FEC dollar. If the live overlay later disagrees with $328,491,775.80 or 450, trust the table and treat this prose as dated to the extract. Until then, the reusable facts are $328,491,775.80, 450 awards, agency 049, National Science Foundation, Utah (UT), and the obligation unit.

Questions

What is the NSF obligation total for Utah?

USAspending.gov records $328,491,775.80 in obligations for awarding agency 049 (National Science Foundation) with Utah place of performance, covering 450 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 $729,981.72 a typical Utah NSF research award?

The extract lists 450 award actions totaling $328,491,775.80. Average obligation per award is about $729,981.72, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical research-grant award. Unique campuses are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites. This page does not invent recipients.

Does the Utah NSF cell split Salt Lake City from Provo or Logan?

No. $328,491,775.80 and 450 awards are statewide Utah place of performance. This packet does not split Salt Lake City, Provo, and Logan. Awards coded to Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, or Colorado are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Salt Lake City. The geography key remains UT.

Which page filters NSF agency 049 to Utah?

National Science Foundation in Utah is the overlay. Utah 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.