National Science Foundation federal obligations in Wisconsin

Foundation 049 overlapping Wisconsin

National Science Foundation as awarding agency, Wisconsin as place-of-performance: 583 awards summing to $524,653,421. A National Science Foundation award coded outside WI is out. An award in Wisconsin from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Wisconsin (WI) excludes Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan. A Madison-coded award with an Illinois place-of-performance tag is a different cell.

583 awards against $524,653,421 is a 583-award science-foundation file, not a university directory. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 583 as 583 unique principal-investigator counts, publication tallies, or named campuses. National Science Foundation in Wisconsin is the both-keys table. Wisconsin federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Science Foundation is the agency book without a WI filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Directorates and named campuses are unpublished. Do not invent universities or principal investigators. Modifications add rows without naming a new PI. Correlation is not causation: Wisconsin did not cause $524,653,421 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 049 × WI only.

Research folklore is not a packet field

$524,653,421 does not measure principal-investigator counts, publication tallies, or named campuses. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 049 and an WI place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 583 awards as a census of principal-investigator counts, publication tallies, or named campuses. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Wisconsin federal spending or National Science Foundation matched $524,653,421 and 583, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state NSF joins are other pairs, not addends.

Wisconsin, not a campus-town list

Place of performance WI is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Wisconsin (WI) excludes Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan. A Madison-coded award with an Illinois place-of-performance tag is a different cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not split $524,653,421 by city, county, or named facility. 583 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Campaign-finance filings do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Five hundred eighty-three obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $524,653,421 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Wisconsin confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Wisconsin’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 583 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 $524,653,421.

Citing NSF in Wisconsin

Cite USAspending.gov: National Science Foundation (agency 049) obligated $524,653,421 on 583 awards coded to Wisconsin. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as principal-investigator counts, publication tallies, or named campuses.

Prefer National Science Foundation in Wisconsin if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Wisconsin federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to WI. National Science Foundation is the 049 parent without the WI filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $524,653,421.

A usable footnote names National Science Foundation, Wisconsin, $524,653,421, and 583. The compact headline $524.7M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $899,920.10 is $524,653,421 divided by 583. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Keep the citation narrow: awarding agency 049 (National Science Foundation) and Wisconsin place of performance on USAspending.gov, obligations only, with no invented recipients. Directorates and named campuses are unpublished. Do not invent universities or principal investigators. Modifications add rows without naming a new PI.

Questions

How much has National Science Foundation obligated in Wisconsin?

USAspending.gov records $524,653,421 across 583 awards with awarding agency 049 and a Wisconsin tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Wisconsin’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.

Do 583 NSF awards mean 583 Wisconsin research grants?

No. $524,653,421 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 049 × WI. It does not measure principal-investigator counts, publication tallies, or named campuses. Those series are not fields on this aggregate. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.

Why does this NSF file have 583 awards?

583 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $524,653,421 by 583 yields about $899,920.10 as a mean, not a typical project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.

Where is the live table for National Science Foundation in Wisconsin?

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