Small Business Administration (073) federal obligations in Virginia

An SBA action file on a Virginia tag

Small Business Administration as awarding agency, Virginia as place-of-performance: 5,404 records summing to $2,067,624,741.61. A Small Business Administration award coded outside VA is out. An award in Virginia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, District of Columbia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina. A District-coded award is DC even if a firm later banks in Arlington. 7(a), 504, disaster, and other SBA instruments can share awarding agency 073. The packet does not split them.

Five thousand four hundred four awards is a thicker SBA action file: many more rows than a thin State Department cell, still a record count rather than unique firms. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 5,404 as 5,404 unique unique small firms, 7(a) loan counts, or named contractors. The overlay Small Business Administration in Virginia is the both-keys table. Virginia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Small Business Administration is the agency book without a VA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Northern Virginia contractor folklore is not a packet split. $2,067,624,741.61 stays statewide. Correlation is not causation: Virginia did not “cause” $2,067,624,741.61 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 073 × VA only.

Not a unique-firm census or Pentagon-area roster

$2,067,624,741.61 does not measure unique small firms, 7(a) loan counts, or named contractors. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 073 and a VA place-of-performance tag. 7(a), 504, disaster, and other SBA instruments can share awarding agency 073. The packet does not split them.

Do not treat 5,404 awards as a census of unique small firms, 7(a) loan counts, or named contractors. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Virginia federal spending or Small Business Administration matched $2,067,624,741.61 and 5,404, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Maryland, District of Columbia, and North Carolina SBA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Virginia statewide, not Northern Virginia versus the rest

Place of performance VA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, District of Columbia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina. A District-coded award is DC even if a firm later banks in Arlington. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Arlington, Richmond, Norfolk, and the rest of the counties share one VA stamp.

Northern Virginia contractor folklore is not a packet split. $2,067,624,741.61 stays statewide. This packet does not split $2,067,624,741.61 by city, county, or named facility. 5,404 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Loan and guarantee obligations versus cash already drawn

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,067,624,741.61 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Virginia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Virginia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 5,404-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 $2,067,624,741.61.

Citing SBA in Virginia

Cite USAspending.gov: Small Business Administration (agency 073) obligated $2,067,624,741.61 on 5,404 awards coded to Virginia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unique small firms, 7(a) loan counts, or named contractors.

Prefer Small Business Administration in Virginia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Virginia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to VA. Small Business Administration is the 073 parent without the VA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,067,624,741.61. A usable footnote names Small Business Administration, Virginia, $2,067,624,741.61, and 5,404. The compact headline $2.07 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $382,610 is $2,067,624,741.61 divided by 5,404. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Small Business Administration obligated in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $2,067,624,741.61 across 5,404 awards with awarding agency 073 and a Virginia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique small firms, 7(a) loan counts, or named contractors. Small Business Administration in Virginia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,067,624,741.61.

Is $2,067,624,741.61 a measure of unique small firms, 7(a) loan counts, or named contractors?

No. The packet publishes $2,067,624,741.61 and 5,404 awards for agency 073 inside VA coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this SBA file have 5,404 awards?

That is the award-record count for 073 × VA. Combined with $2,067,624,741.61, the average is about $382,610. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 5,404 is not unique unique small firms, 7(a) loan counts, or named contractors. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live SBA–Virginia table?

Small Business Administration in Virginia is the overlay. Virginia federal spending and Small Business Administration are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $2,067,624,741.61. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.