Pennsylvania

Dollars and records on the Pennsylvania extract

Two statistics define Pennsylvania on this page: $861.13B in obligations and 1,576,071 awards, both from USAspending.gov for FY2024–2026. The dollar figure is a sum of obligation amounts. The award figure is a count of records. They are not two ways of saying the same thing. A file can add many records while the dollar sum barely moves.

Pennsylvania’s award count is 1,576,071 rows. That volume is a property of how often award actions were written, including modifications and assistance records in the source. It is not a count of unique Pennsylvania recipients. This packet does not publish a recipient total, so none is quoted here.

Obligations, not Pennsylvania outlays

An obligation on a USAspending.gov award is a commitment. An outlay is cash leaving the Treasury. Pennsylvania’s $861.13B is the first of those, built from award files. Using it as a proxy for checks already mailed will misstate cash depending on timing, and this site does not perform that conversion.

State budget documents in Harrisburg answer a different question. They are not the source of the 1,576,071 awards. If a chart mixes Pennsylvania’s General Fund with this $861.13B, the chart has left the USAspending.gov award series.

Questions

How much federal money is obligated in Pennsylvania?

USAspending.gov award files indexed on SpendingVault show $861.13B in obligations for Pennsylvania in FY2024–2026. That is not a Treasury outlay total. The files count 1,576,071 awards for Pennsylvania in the same window.

Why does Pennsylvania show more than 1.5 million awards?

The index counts 1,576,071 award records for FY2024–2026. Record volume includes modifications and assistance actions present in USAspending.gov. It is not a unique-recipient count, and this packet does not publish one.

Is Pennsylvania’s $861.13B cash already spent?

No. $861.13B is an obligation sum. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury. SpendingVault’s Pennsylvania page stays with USAspending.gov award obligations for FY2024–2026.

Which years are inside the Pennsylvania total?

Federal fiscal years 2024, 2025, and 2026 combined. The $861.13B and 1,576,071-award figures are window totals, not a single-year Pennsylvania breakout.