Glassbox VA · geography · FY2019
Arizona
GDX reports $4.7B of VA expenditures for Arizona in FY2019, across all categories. In the 4 categories that can be compared like-for-like, GDX reports $2.6B and USAspending shows $2.7B of obligations (101.4%). Every compared category is within the tolerance band set by all states this year.
Category comparison · FY2019
GDX expenditure, USAspending obligations, coverage ratio
| Category | GDX expenditure | USAspending obligations | Coverage ratio | Band (all states) | Status | Structural explanation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Compensation & Pension GDX source: USAspending.gov (plus FMS for certain C&P items), per the GDX data guide | $2.2B | $2.2B | 100.0% | 100.0%–100.1% | Within tolerance | VA states this GDX figure was taken from USAspending.gov, so a gap points to reporting revisions or state assignment rather than an independent difference. |
Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment GDX source: USAspending.gov (plus FMS for non-beneficiary items), per the GDX data guide | $350M | $349M | 99.8% | 99.4%–100.2% | Within tolerance | VA states this GDX figure was taken from USAspending.gov, so a gap points to reporting revisions or state assignment rather than an independent difference. Education payments to schools can follow the school's location on one side and the student's residence on the other. |
Insurance & Indemnities GDX source: VA Regional Office & Insurance Center (RO&IC), Philadelphia | $32.2M | $25.4M | 79.1% | 60.6%–109.0% | Within tolerance | Insurance payees are located by linked residence records in GDX (FY2024+ partly by ZIP code), by payee address on USAspending. |
Construction GDX source: VA Financial Management System (FMS) / iFAMS | $17.5M | $61.6M | 351.6% | 8.2%–6711% | Within tolerance | Construction is obligated up front and spent over several years; single-year ratios swing with project phasing. |
Medical Care GDX source: VHA Allocation Resource Center (ARC) and FMS | $2.0B | — | — | — | Not comparable | Most of VA medical spending is the payroll and operating cost of VA hospitals and clinics, which is not an award and never appears on USAspending. VHA's cost-of-care assistance listings (64.009–64.050) are reported inconsistently from year to year, and contract place of performance follows the facility rather than the patient's home. |
General Operating Expenses GDX source: FMS / iFAMS | $80.7M | — | — | — | Not comparable | Mostly salaries and overhead with no award record; the contract share that does exist is booked to the buying office, not to a beneficiary geography. |
Loan Guaranty GDX source: FMS (through FY2023); VBA PA&I (FY2024+) | $0 | — | — | — | Not comparable | USAspending records guaranteed loans by face value with zero federal obligation per loan; the budgetary cost (subsidy and claims) is not in the award file. |
Compared categories · FY2019
Grey = GDX expenditure · teal = USAspending obligations (amber when outside tolerance)
Each pair is scaled to its own larger value.
- Compensation & Pension100.0%$2.2B$2.2B
- Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment99.8%$350M$349M
- Insurance & Indemnities79.1%$32.2M$25.4M
- Construction351.6%$17.5M$61.6M
Multi-year trend, compared categories
Sum of the categories compared in each year
GDX expenditureUSAspending obligationsBreaks mark years not compared.
What makes up the USAspending side · FY2019
Programs, recipients and offices
Benefit programs are reported to USAspending as county-level aggregate rows, not as named recipients, so they are listed by Assistance Listing. Construction is listed by contractor and awarding office (place of performance in Arizona).
Assistance listings
Obligations mapped into compared categories
- VETERANS COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY64.109 · Compensation & Pension · 180 rows$2.0B
- POST-9/11 VETERANS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE64.028 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 180 rows$281M
- VETERANS DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DEATH64.110 · Compensation & Pension · 164 rows$159M
- PENSION FOR NON-SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY FOR VETERANS64.104 · Compensation & Pension · 166 rows$61.4M
- VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION FOR DISABLED VETERANS64.116 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 148 rows$40.6M
- GRANTS TO STATES FOR CONSTRUCTION OF STATE HOME FACILITIES64.005 · Construction · 5 rows$38.9M
- LIFE INSURANCE FOR VETERANS - DIRECT PAYMENTS FOR INSURANCE64.031 · Insurance & Indemnities · 512 rows$25.4M
- PENSION TO VETERANS SURVIVING SPOUSES, AND CHILDREN64.105 · Compensation & Pension · 158 rows$24.8M
- BURIAL EXPENSES ALLOWANCE FOR VETERANS64.101 · Compensation & Pension · 158 rows$22.2M
- SURVIVORS AND DEPENDENTS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE64.117 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 171 rows$15.3M
- ALL-VOLUNTEER FORCE EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE64.124 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 133 rows$4.6M
- SPECIALLY ADAPTED HOUSING FOR DISABLED VETERANS64.106 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 60 rows$3.3M
- AUTOMOBILES AND ADAPTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR CERTAIN DISABLED VETERANS AND MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES64.100 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 66 rows$3.3M
- MONTGOMERY GI BILL SELECTED RESERVE; RESERVE EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM64.032 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 125 rows$1.1M
- MONTHLY ALLOWANCE FOR CHILDREN OF VIETNAM VETERANS BORN WITH SPINA BIFIDA64.127 · Compensation & Pension · 72 rows$594K
- POST-VIETNAM ERA VETERANS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE64.120 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 1 rows$50
- VETERANS CEMETERY GRANTS PROGRAM64.203 · Construction · 1 rows-$586K
Construction contractors
PSC Y contracts performed in this state
- THE POVOLNY GROUP INC4 awards · largest action →$9.0M
- $5.5M
- D SQUARE CONSTRUCTION LLC2 awards · largest action →$5.3M
- BRISTON CONSTRUCTION, LLC6 awards · largest action →$2.7M
- UNITED BUILDERS, LLC4 awards · largest action →$428K
- BVB CONSTRUCTION INC1 award · largest action →$188K
- SUN EAGLE, CORPORATION1 award · largest action →$111K
- VENERGY GROUP LLC1 award · largest action →$14K
- $6K
- $978
Awarding offices (construction)
Office that recorded the obligation
- 258-NETWORK CNTRCT OFF 22G (36C258)17 awards$21.2M
- PCAC NATIONAL ENERGY BUSINESS CENTER (36E776)1 awards$2.0M
- OFFICE OF CONSTRUCTION & FACILITIES MGMT (36C10F)1 awards$111K
- NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMIN (36C786)3 awards$20K
Pattern · geographic reconciliation variance
Observations for Arizona, all years
Every year in which a compared category for Arizona sat outside the tolerance band. Evidence strength follows the site-wide formula; the note is the most applicable benign explanation.
- Arizona — Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment, FY2022medium · strength 0.59
GDX reports $246M of Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment expenditures for Arizona in FY2022; USAspending shows $268M of obligations under the same category definitions (109.1% of GDX). The ratio sits above the tolerance band set by 53 compared states that year (97.6% to 108.0%; median 102.8%). GDX figures are expenditures and USAspending figures are obligations; the difference is a variance to review, not a finding.
Benign explanation: For FY2012–FY2023 VA states that GDX Compensation & Pension and E&VRE (and FY2023 Insurance) were taken from USAspending.gov, so agreement is expected; a variance points to a later revision or a state-assignment difference.
Pattern definition and thresholds: gdx-reconciliation-variance.
Context only
Categories GDX reports that are not compared
Shown so the state total is complete. These have no like-for-like USAspending counterpart; comparing them would report most of VA's own operating cost as a gap.
| Category | GDX expenditure | How GDX places it | Why not compared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Care | $2.0B | Patient's home residence, not the site of care (research is booked to the facility performing it). | Most of VA medical spending is the payroll and operating cost of VA hospitals and clinics, which is not an award and never appears on USAspending. VHA's cost-of-care assistance listings (64.009–64.050) are reported inconsistently from year to year, and contract place of performance follows the facility rather than the patient's home. |
| General Operating Expenses | $80.7M | Where the cost is booked in FMS/iFAMS — headquarters costs concentrate in the District of Columbia. | Mostly salaries and overhead with no award record; the contract share that does exist is booked to the buying office, not to a beneficiary geography. |
| Loan Guaranty | $0 | Through FY2023: Travis County, TX (processing location). FY2024+: county of the loan. | USAspending records guaranteed loans by face value with zero federal obligation per loan; the budgetary cost (subsidy and claims) is not in the award file. |
GDX also publishes an estimated veteran population of 492,472 and 162,285 unique VA patients for Arizona. Per-veteran figures are deliberately not shown: VA advises against dividing these categories by veteran population.
- GDX expenditure
- VA's estimate of money spent in the fiscal year, by state (an expenditure measure, closer to outlays than to obligations; VA notes it can differ from both), from VA's Geographic Distribution of VA Expenditures report.
- USAspending obligations
- Net obligations recorded on USAspending.gov in the same fiscal year (sum of every transaction's federal action obligation), for the programs mapped to the same GDX category.
- Coverage ratio
- USAspending ÷ GDX. 100% means the award record accounts for the same dollars VA reports as spent. Obligations and expenditures are different measures, so exact agreement is not expected.
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Source: VA NCVAS GDX FY2019 · USAspending.gov (VA, agency 036)