U.S. Agency for Global Media federal obligations in District of Columbia

The awarding-agency 514 filter plus District of Columbia

USAspending.gov stores awarding agency and place of performance on the same award rows. Intersecting 514 with DC yields $718,391,429.04 in obligations. The pair is not a statement that District of Columbia caused U.S. Agency for Global Media to spend, and it is not a census of studios.

Behind $718,391,429.04 sit 217 award actions (a mid-size award list). That denominator is why the mean of about $3,310,559.58 can look large or small depending on how many small rows share the cell. The packet does not publish a median or a unique-recipient count.

Open U.S. Agency for Global Media in District of Columbia for the filtered table, District of Columbia federal spending for the next hub, U.S. Agency for Global Media for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Mean obligation of about $3,310,559.58

217 rows and $718,391,429.04 produce a mean of about $3,310,559.58. That ratio is not a typical broadcasting contract and not a payment to a named vendor. Repeat the two packet facts when you reuse the mean; do not round them into a new official statistic.

Do not infer a typical broadcasting contract from the mean. The overlay can show mixed instruments; this page only has the two published numbers and the four internal links.

Place of performance versus USAGM headquarters

Two one-sided pages exist so this two-sided page can stay small. U.S. Agency for Global Media in District of Columbia is the live overlay. 217 awards and $718,391,429.04 belong only to the pair, not to a blended statewide rollup hidden under this slug.

Mailing address and place of performance can differ. An award that lists District of Columbia geography enters this total; an award that lists Maryland or Virginia does not, even if the vendor answers mail in the District. Keep 217 attached to the statewide tag.

The obligation field

Readers sometimes treat obligation totals as checks cleared. The packet does not support that reading. $718,391,429.04 is the commitment sum; outlays are unnamed here.

The source note repeats the same limit: obligations are not outlays. 217 is how many award rows carry both tags, not how many payments left the Treasury.

What the join is not

Do not rank District of Columbia as a winner or loser on USAGM dollars from this page alone. The packet has no comparison table. All spending ties lists other pairs without turning this cell into a scoreboard.

A searcher who arrived from a political query still gets an awarding-agency × state obligation total. 217 awards and $718,391,429.04 stay in that unit. No donor names are in the packet, and none are invented.

Citing $718,391,429.04 without over-reading it

Reuse $718,391,429.04 only with the filters that created it. Agency 514 without District of Columbia, or District of Columbia without agency 514, is a different number. About $3,310,559.58 per award stays a derived ratio of the same two facts.

Keep U.S. Agency for Global Media and District of Columbia in the same sentence whenever you quote $718,391,429.04. District of Columbia federal spending will look larger because it mixes agencies. U.S. Agency for Global Media will look larger because it mixes states. U.S. Agency for Global Media in District of Columbia is the pair. All spending ties lists other pairs. Correlation is not causation. U.S. Agency for Global Media in District of Columbia remains the filtered table for this pair. District of Columbia federal spending answers a statewide question that mixes agencies. U.S. Agency for Global Media answers an agency question that mixes states. All spending ties is the catalog of other two-sided pages, not a sum of this cell plus its siblings. Nothing in this packet names a contractor, grantee, laboratory, or borrower. Inventing networks or production vendors to explain $718,391,429.04 would break the facts-only rule. If a recipient appears on the overlay, that row is evidence from USAspending.gov, not from this narrative.

Questions

What does USAspending show for USAGM in District of Columbia?

USAspending.gov records $718,391,429.04 in obligations for awarding agency 514 (U.S. Agency for Global Media) with District of Columbia place of performance, covering 217 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not U.S. Agency for Global Media's nationwide budget.

Can I treat the mean as a typical USAGM award?

The extract lists 217 award actions totaling $718,391,429.04. Average obligation per award is about $3,310,559.58, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical broadcasting contract. Unique networks or production vendors are not published here.

Is place of performance the same as a the District mailing address?

No. $718,391,429.04 and 217 awards are statewide District of Columbia place of performance. This packet does not split Northwest from Northeast or Southeast. Awards coded to Maryland or Virginia are outside this cell even if mail is handled in the District.

Where should I go next from this USAGM join?

U.S. Agency for Global Media in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending shows all agencies in the state. U.S. Agency for Global Media shows agency 514 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs.