Small Business Administration (073) federal obligations in District of Columbia

What the SBA-District of Columbia join is

Awarding agency 073 and place-of-performance state DC meet here. $1,148,013,372.97 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Small Business Administration's nationwide budget, not District of Columbia's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Downtown 8(a), disaster-loan, and capital-region small-business folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of D.C. firms.

1,418 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — more than a thousand award actions behind a billion-dollar obligation total. More than a thousand rows can mix loan guarantees with smaller service awards. The join does not rank the District against states and does not name firms inside the extract.

Open Small Business Administration in District of Columbia for the filtered table, District of Columbia federal spending for the next hub, Small Business Administration for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

1,418 SBA actions under one District of Columbia filter

Dividing $1,148,013,372.97 by 1,418 yields about $809,600.40 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical 8(a) contract. A second SBA slice on another jurisdiction uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat the District's 073 total as a synonym for every SBA account.

Downtown 8(a), disaster-loan, and capital-region small-business folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative's extra columns.

Agency 073 without a District of Columbia overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Small Business Administration page aggregates 073 without requiring DC geography. The District of Columbia federal spending page aggregates all agencies with District of Columbia place of performance. Only Small Business Administration in District of Columbia applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 1,418 awards and $1,148,013,372.97.

Place of performance in District of Columbia is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list DC while later work occurs in Maryland or Virginia. SBA awards coded to those jurisdictions do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Northwest D.C. This packet does not split Northwest from Northeast or the federal core.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $1,148,013,372.97 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in District of Columbia over-reads the field.

Award count 1,418 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the District of Columbia-SBA overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large SBA total in the District of Columbia does not mean the agency caused the District's firm mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between capital geography and SBA awards is expected; it is not a finding about entrepreneurship or waste.

Keep $1,148,013,372.97 labeled as agency 073 obligations with District of Columbia place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the District of Columbia-SBA pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 073 (Small Business Administration), District of Columbia place of performance, $1,148,013,372.97 in obligations, and 1,418 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $1,148,013,372.97 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $809,600.40 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical 8(a) contract.

Small Business Administration in District of Columbia, District of Columbia federal spending, Small Business Administration, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $1,148,013,372.97 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Downtown-versus-neighborhood folklore is not a ward split in this packet. Firm names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has the SBA obligated in the District of Columbia?

USAspending.gov records $1,148,013,372.97 in obligations for awarding agency 073 with District of Columbia place of performance, covering 1,418 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Small Business Administration's nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Does this total include every D.C. small-business loan?

The extract lists 1,418 award actions totaling $1,148,013,372.97. Average obligation per award is about $809,600.40, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical 8(a) contract. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a downtown-only SBA total?

No. $1,148,013,372.97 and 1,418 awards are statewide District of Columbia place of performance. This packet does not split Northwest from Northeast or the federal core. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live SBA-District of Columbia table?

Small Business Administration in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Small Business Administration shows agency 073 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.