Smithsonian Institution federal obligations in Maryland

Smithsonian awards tagged to Maryland

Smithsonian Institution as awarding agency, Maryland as place-of-performance: 420 records summing to $236,232,365.11. A Smithsonian Institution award coded outside MD is out. An award in Maryland from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Maryland (MD) excludes Virginia, the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia. A District of Columbia-coded award is DC even if collections sit in Maryland.

Four hundred twenty awards against $236,232,365.11 is a thicker Smithsonian file than a thin SEC cell, still a record count rather than unique vendors. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 420 as 420 unique museum visits, unique collections, or named support centers. Smithsonian Institution in Maryland is the both-keys table. Maryland federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Smithsonian Institution is the agency book without an MD filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Visitor counts are a different series

$236,232,365.11 does not measure museum visits, unique collections, or named support centers. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 3300 and an MD place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 420 awards as a census of museum visits, unique collections, or named support centers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Maryland federal spending or Smithsonian Institution matched $236,232,365.11 and 420, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Virginia, District of Columbia, and Pennsylvania Smithsonian joins are other pairs, not addends.

Maryland, not a Mall-only map

Place of performance MD is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Maryland (MD) excludes Virginia, the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia. A District of Columbia-coded award is DC even if collections sit in Maryland. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not split $236,232,365.11 by city, county, or named facility. 420 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Campaign-finance filings do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Four hundred twenty rows still record obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $236,232,365.11 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Maryland confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Citing Smithsonian × Maryland

Cite USAspending.gov: Smithsonian Institution (agency 3300) obligated $236,232,365.11 on 420 awards coded to Maryland. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as museum visits, unique collections, or named support centers.

Prefer Smithsonian Institution in Maryland if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Maryland federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MD. Smithsonian Institution is the 3300 parent without the MD filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $236,232,365.11.

A usable footnote names Smithsonian Institution, Maryland, $236,232,365.11, and 420. The compact headline $236.2M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $562,458 is $236,232,365.11 divided by 420. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system. Museum names, collection titles, and contractor identities are unpublished on this packet.

What Smithsonian × Maryland is not

The pair is Smithsonian Institution and Maryland, not museum visits, unique collections, or named support centers. Museum names, collection titles, and contractor identities are unpublished on this packet. FEC contribution tables are a different public-record system; donations do not fund these USAspending obligations even when they share a geography. Keep the citation narrow: agency 3300, place-of-performance MD, $236,232,365.11, 420 awards, obligations only.

Four hundred twenty awards against $236,232,365.11 is a thicker Smithsonian file than a thin SEC cell, still a record count rather than unique vendors. On this join the implied mean near $562,458 should not be treated as a typical award size. Without a distribution, $236,232,365.11 can be dominated by a few rows even when 420 is large, or by those same few rows when 420 is small. This page will not pretend to know which pattern holds. It keeps repeating the two facts and the two keys: Smithsonian Institution (3300) and Maryland (MD). Place of performance still does not mean every dollar was disbursed locally. Obligations still do not mean outlays. Suitland and other support-center folklore is unpublished. Do not split 420 awards into a named-facility list. The Mall is a District of Columbia geography, not this MD stamp. Museum names, collection titles, and contractor identities are unpublished on this packet.

Questions

How much has Smithsonian Institution obligated in Maryland?

USAspending.gov records $236,232,365.11 across 420 awards with awarding agency 3300 and a Maryland tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Maryland’s full federal book. Smithsonian Institution in Maryland is the live overlay for this pair.

Is $236.2M cash already spent on Maryland museum operations?

No. $236,232,365.11 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 3300 × MD. It does not measure museum visits, unique collections, or named support centers. Those series are not fields on this aggregate. Payments from the Treasury can lag or differ.

Do 420 awards mean 420 unique Smithsonian sites in Maryland?

No. 420 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $236,232,365.11 by 420 yields about $562,458 as a mean, not a typical project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Where is the live table for Smithsonian Institution in Maryland?

Smithsonian Institution in Maryland is the overlay for both keys. Maryland federal spending is the all-agency Maryland hub. Smithsonian Institution is the agency parent. All spending ties indexes other spending ties. Prefer the overlay when both filters must stay on.