Definitions: Federal funds and grants include federal expenditures or obligation
for the following categories: grants, salaries and wages, procurement contracts,
direct payments for individuals, other direct payments, direct loans, guaranteed
or insured loans, and insurance. Dollar amounts (reported here in thousands
of dollars) represent either actual expenditures or obligations. Scope and Methodology: Federal expenditures and obligations data were prepared by the Bureau of the
Census in accordance with the Consolidated Federal Funds Report (CFFR) Amendment
of 1986 (P.L. 99-547). The CFFR Act specified that the following reporting systems
and agencies be used as data sources: Federal Assistance Award Data System (FAADS),
Federal Procurement Data System, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Department
of Defense (DOD), U.S. Postal Service, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Coast
Guard, Public Health Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In addition to these, several other
federal agencies were requested to provide data, usually for selected programs.
Selected data were obtained from the information on payments to state and local
governments reported by federal agencies for the Census Bureau's Federal Aid
to States survey. All grant awards were reported by state, county, and city of the initial recipient.
For many grants, this recipient is the state government even though the grant
monies are subsequently distributed to county, municipal, or township governments.
These ''pass-through'' grants generally appear in the CFFR at the state capital
city (and in the associated county). No attempt is made in the CFFR to assign
the dollar amounts for these pass-through programs to locations other than the
state capital. The sum of all counties may be less than state totals, because some distributions
were not allocated to specific counties.Federal Funds and Grants