Smithsonian Institution federal obligations in Virginia

Smithsonian Institution and Virginia in one table

Smithsonian Institution and Virginia share one USAspending.gov cell. $149,438,564.38 is the obligation sum on that cell. It is not every federal dollar in Virginia, not Smithsonian Institution's nationwide book, and not cash already paid. Museum, collection, and research-campus labels are ordinary speech, not columns.

The 438 figure is mid-size. High row counts often mark many small actions; low row counts often mark a few large instruments. This packet publishes neither a type mix nor unique museums or contractors.

Open Smithsonian Institution in Virginia for the filtered table, Virginia federal spending for the next hub, Smithsonian Institution for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

438 actions without a museum split

Do not annualize $149,438,564.38 into a multi-year Virginia Smithsonian Institution budget. No fiscal year is in the facts. Do not treat 438 as unique museums or contractors.

About $341,183.94 is $149,438,564.38 divided by 438. Repeat that it is a ratio whenever the mean is quoted beside a typical-museum or research-campus award story.

Arlington is not a published geography slice

Smithsonian Institution is Smithsonian Institution without a state filter. Virginia federal spending is Virginia without an agency filter. This slug is the intersection. Citing the nationwide Smithsonian book as if it were Virginia's $149,438,564.38 cell is a misread of the join.

No metro split of Arlington, Alexandria, and Richmond is published here. Awards coded to Maryland, the District of Columbia, North Carolina, or West Virginia are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Arlington. The overlay path already encodes both the state tag and agency 3300.

Keep the obligation unit on $149,438,564.38

$149,438,564.38 records commitments tagged to Smithsonian Institution and Virginia. Payments, recoveries, and cancellations would live in other fields. This extract does not publish those fields.

438 actions can include modifications that change a prior obligation. That is why a record count is not a unique-project census. Use Smithsonian Institution in Virginia for the live table. Agency 3300 is the awarding-agency key stored on that overlay.

No contractor names in the packet

The join is descriptive. $149,438,564.38 does not prove that Virginia received too much or too little Smithsonian Institution money, and it does not prove that Smithsonian Institution activity caused local outcomes. No performance metric is in the packet.

Campaign-finance filings do not fund this USAspending cell. Smithsonian Institution obligations in Virginia and FEC receipts that mention similar words are separate public records. This page does not merge them. Unique museums or contractors are unpublished here, so none are invented.

Citing Smithsonian obligations in Virginia

Smithsonian Institution in Virginia remains the place to verify the live rows. All spending ties is an index of joins, not a hidden total that already includes $149,438,564.38. Place-of-performance Virginia is statewide; it does not split Arlington, Alexandria, and Richmond. Neighbor-coded activity in Maryland, the District of Columbia, North Carolina, or West Virginia stays out even if mail is handled in Arlington. Correlation is not causation. Museum, collection, and research-campus folklore can be a legitimate research question on another page. Here it is labeled folklore because the packet has no NAICS, CFDA, or program column. Tidewater, piedmont, and capital-region folklore is the same kind of reader path: useful for search, unused as math. Agency 3300 on a different state's overlay is a sibling join, not a remainder that must add to a national Smithsonian budget on this page. Virginia's $149,438,564.38 cell stands alone. Do not subtract it from Smithsonian Institution and call the difference 'Virginia versus everywhere else' without a published national total in this packet — there is none. Smithsonian Institution is the awarding-agency label stored on the Virginia overlay; the numeric key is 3300. Readers who only remember the short name Smithsonian still need both the state tag and the agency tag before quoting $149,438,564.38. The 438 figure is not a count of unique museums or contractors and is not a count of distinct Smithsonian programs. Modifications can add rows without adding new vendors. That is another reason the mean of about $341,183.94 is not a typical museum or research-campus award. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. This file copies overlayTarget /states/va/agencies/3300/ and canonicalPath /ties/smithsonian-institution-in-virginia/ from the packet. It does not add a fiscal year, a contractor, or an FEC dollar. If the live overlay later disagrees with $149,438,564.38 or 438, trust the table and treat this prose as dated to the extract. Until then, the reusable facts are $149,438,564.38, 438 awards, agency 3300, Smithsonian Institution, Virginia (VA), and the obligation unit.

Questions

What is the Smithsonian obligation total for Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $149,438,564.38 in obligations for awarding agency 3300 (Smithsonian Institution) with Virginia place of performance, covering 438 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Smithsonian Institution's nationwide budget. The pair is a join, not a ranking.

Does this Virginia Smithsonian extract name museums?

The extract lists 438 award actions totaling $149,438,564.38. Average obligation per award is about $341,183.94, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical museum or research-campus award. Unique museums or contractors are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Are Maryland Smithsonian awards in this Virginia cell?

No. $149,438,564.38 and 438 awards are statewide Virginia place of performance. This packet does not split Arlington, Alexandria, and Richmond. Awards coded to Maryland, the District of Columbia, North Carolina, or West Virginia are outside this cell even if mail is handled in Arlington. The geography key remains VA.

Which page filters Smithsonian (3300) to Virginia?

Smithsonian Institution in Virginia is the overlay. Virginia federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Smithsonian Institution shows agency 3300 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Cite obligations, not outlays.