National Science Foundation federal obligations in Wyoming

A thinner NSF file on a Wyoming tag

National Science Foundation as awarding agency, Wyoming as place-of-performance: 90 records summing to $104,501,020. A National Science Foundation award coded outside WY is out. An award in Wyoming from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Wyoming (WY) excludes Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Utah, South Dakota, and Nebraska. A Fort Collins-coded award is CO even if a field site sits in Wyoming. Directorates inside awarding agency 049 stay unpublished on this Wyoming cell.

Ninety records against $104,501,020 is an even thinner NSF file than many plains cells: fewer rows, a higher implied mean. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 90 as 90 unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses. The overlay National Science Foundation in Wyoming is the both-keys table. Wyoming federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Science Foundation is the agency book without a WY filter. All spending ties lists other joins. The University of Wyoming is ordinary speech here, not a published share of $104,501,020. Unique PIs are unpublished. Correlation is not causation: Wyoming did not cause $104,501,020 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 049 × WY only.

Not a mountain-campus ranking

$104,501,020 does not measure unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 049 and a WY place-of-performance tag. Directorates inside awarding agency 049 stay unpublished on this Wyoming cell.

Do not treat 90 awards as a census of unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Wyoming federal spending or National Science Foundation matched $104,501,020 and 90, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Colorado, Montana, and South Dakota NSF joins are other pairs, not addends. Ninety is a record count. Continuations can add rows without each row being a new PI.

Wyoming statewide, not a Laramie-only map

Place of performance WY is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Wyoming (WY) excludes Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Utah, South Dakota, and Nebraska. A Fort Collins-coded award is CO even if a field site sits in Wyoming. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Cheyenne, Casper, Laramie, and the rest of the counties share one WY stamp.

The University of Wyoming is ordinary speech here, not a published share of $104,501,020. Unique PIs are unpublished. This packet does not split $104,501,020 by city, county, or named facility. 90 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. FEC donation tables do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Few rows, still grant obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $104,501,020 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Wyoming confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Wyoming’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 90-award 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 $104,501,020. Ninety is a record count. Continuations can add rows without each row being a new PI.

Citing NSF in Wyoming

Cite USAspending.gov: National Science Foundation (agency 049) obligated $104,501,020 on 90 awards coded to Wyoming. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses. The pair is NSF plus Wyoming, not a single-campus ledger.

Prefer National Science Foundation in Wyoming if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Wyoming federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to WY. National Science Foundation is the 049 parent without the WY filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $104,501,020. A usable footnote names National Science Foundation, Wyoming, $104,501,020, and 90. The compact headline $104.5 million is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1.16 million is $104,501,020 divided by 90. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the National Science Foundation obligated in Wyoming?

USAspending.gov records $104,501,020 across 90 awards with awarding agency 049 and a Wyoming tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses. National Science Foundation in Wyoming is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $104,501,020.

Is $104,501,020 a measure of unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses?

No. The packet publishes $104,501,020 and 90 awards for agency 049 inside WY coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays. Keep both keys.

Does 90 NSF awards mean 90 Wyoming researchers?

No. 90 is the award-record count for 049 × WY. Combined with $104,501,020, the average is about $1.16 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 90 is not unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live NSF–Wyoming table?

National Science Foundation in Wyoming is the overlay. Wyoming federal spending and National Science Foundation are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $104,501,020. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.