USAID overseas assistance obligations tagged to the District of Columbia
USAID Foreign Assistance For Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) obligations tagged to the District of Columbia total $5,981,913,561 on USAspending.gov across 197 awards. The Catalog title says overseas; the geography tag says DC. That tension is the join. Place of performance on a prime award often follows the implementer’s Washington address, not the country where the activity occurs. This page does not convert $5,981,913,561 into District resident aid. One hundred ninety-seven USAID overseas actions coded to DC are headquarters geography until proven otherwise; $5,981,913,561 is not District resident aid.
Key figures
- USAID overseas (CFDA 98.001) tagged to D.C.: $5,981,913,561 on 197 USAspending awards.
- The implied mean is about $30,365,000 per award; countries are not named.
- A DC tag can be headquarters geography, not where the activity occurs.
- Do not treat this cell as aid to District residents.
- The join is 98.001 × DC, not a foreign-aid ranking of the District.
An overseas Catalog number on a DC tag
Keep USAspending rows labeled USAID FOREIGN ASSISTANCE FOR PROGRAMS OVERSEAS whose geography is District of Columbia (DC). One hundred ninety-seven awards remain. They sum to $5,981,913,561. CFDA 98.001 is USAID’s foreign-assistance Catalog number. The extract counts award actions coded to DC, not countries assisted and not District neighborhoods served.
The implied mean is about $30,365,000 per award. That is implementer-vehicle size in a headquarters city, not a typical mission budget in a partner country. Unique countries, unique implementing partners, and unique missions are unpublished.
District of Columbia federal spending is every CFDA on DC. CFDA 98.001 is the national overseas-assistance file. Usaid Foreign Assistance For Programs Overseas in District of Columbia is the overlap. District of Columbia programs and All spending ties are the indexes.
Implementers clustered in Washington often receive 98.001 primes. Country of activity is unpublished. 197 is an action count, not 197 countries.
The District NCIF cell in this slice is one $5,000,000,000 award on 66.957. USAID is 98.001. Both can be Beltway tags. They are not the same program.
Headquarters geography is not destination geography
A DC place-of-performance tag on an overseas-assistance award usually means the prime recipient or managing office is coded to Washington. Activity in another country can still sit in this 197-row cell. Conversely, overseas work awarded to a non-DC implementer would not appear here even if USAID headquarters is in the District.
This is the opposite of a SNAP cell, where the state tag often follows the administering state. Here the tag can follow the Beltway address. Treating $5,981,913,561 as ‘federal aid to D.C. residents’ is a category error.
Other foreign-assistance Catalog numbers (State, Defense humanitarian lines, multilateral contributions) are not 98.001 unless so coded. Do not add them into this cell.
ForeignAssistance.gov and USAID’s own country pages are different systems. Mixing them with this USAspending join without a crosswalk invents a destination table.
Obligations versus aid delivered abroad
Quote $5,981,913,561 as USAspending obligations for CFDA 98.001 tagged to the District of Columbia. Do not quote it as commodities delivered, clinics built, or outlays in partner countries. Those ledgers live in USAID and ForeignAssistance.gov systems, not this packet.
No fiscal year is in the facts. Do not attach one. Cite USAspending.gov CFDA aggregates by place of performance state.
Commodities, cash transfers, and contracts can all sit inside 98.001. This packet does not split $5,981,913,561 by instrument.
Do not rank the District as a foreign-aid ‘recipient’
A large 98.001 cell on DC does not mean the District received more foreign aid than Maryland. It often means implementers are coded here. Correlation with the District’s National Clean Investment Fund cell is not causation: one is climate finance, one is overseas assistance, both can be headquarters geography.
This packet does not split 197 awards by ward. Ward geography would misread a headquarters tag.
Wards are the wrong unit. A ward story would misread a headquarters tag.
Citation line
Quote USAspending.gov: USAID Foreign Assistance For Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) obligated $5,981,913,561 on 197 awards coded to the District of Columbia. Name the overseas program and the DC tag together, and say the tag can be headquarters, not destination.
The overlay Usaid Foreign Assistance For Programs Overseas in District of Columbia is the live pair.
How to say DC without saying the money stayed
Quote USAspending.gov: CFDA 98.001 obligated $5,981,913,561 on 197 awards coded to the District of Columbia, and add that the Catalog title is overseas assistance.
Usaid Foreign Assistance For Programs Overseas in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia programs lists other DC-tagged cells.
Questions
- How much USAID overseas assistance is tagged to D.C.?
- USAspending.gov shows $5,981,913,561 across 197 awards for CFDA 98.001 with a District of Columbia place-of-performance tag. That is an obligation join, not aid delivered to District residents.
- Does this money stay in Washington?
- Not necessarily. CFDA 98.001 is foreign assistance for programs overseas. A DC tag often follows the prime implementer’s address. Destination countries are not in this packet.
- Is this the District’s domestic aid budget?
- No. This join is only 98.001, USAID Foreign Assistance For Programs Overseas, coded to DC. Domestic District programs use other Catalog numbers.
- Where is the live D.C. 98.001 table?
- Usaid Foreign Assistance For Programs Overseas in District of Columbia. See also District of Columbia federal spending, District of Columbia programs, CFDA 98.001, and All spending ties.
USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.