Glassbox VA · geography · FY2024

Colorado

GDX reports $5.6B of VA expenditures for Colorado in FY2024, across all categories. In the 4 categories that can be compared like-for-like, GDX reports $3.6B and USAspending shows $3.6B of obligations (99.9%). Every compared category is within the tolerance band set by all states this year.

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Category comparison · FY2024

GDX expenditure, USAspending obligations, coverage ratio

Category comparison for Colorado, FY2024
CategoryGDX expenditureUSAspending obligationsCoverage ratioBand (all states)StatusStructural explanation
Compensation & Pension
GDX source: VBA Office of Performance Analysis & Integrity (PA&I), county-level payment data
$3.1B$3.1B100.0%100.0%–100.0%Within toleranceWithin the band set by all states this year.
Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment
GDX source: VBA PA&I, county-level payment data
$430M$430M100.0%100.0%–100.0%Within toleranceEducation payments to schools can follow the school's location on one side and the student's residence on the other.
Insurance & Indemnities
GDX source: Insurance Service Office of Budget and Oversight (payment records with SSN/address)
$9.7M$10.2M106.0%93.5%–126.8%Within toleranceInsurance payees are located by linked residence records in GDX (FY2024+ partly by ZIP code), by payee address on USAspending.
Construction
GDX source: VA Office of Construction & Facilities Management (CFM), by station
$8.3M$3.6M43.6%5.6%–5801%Within toleranceConstruction 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 comparableMost 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.
Loan Guaranty
GDX source: FMS (through FY2023); VBA PA&I (FY2024+)
$1.6M———Not comparableUSAspending records guaranteed loans by face value with zero federal obligation per loan; the budgetary cost (subsidy and claims) is not in the award file.
Memorial Benefits
GDX source: NCA Office of Finance Service; VBA PA&I
$24.3M———Not comparableMostly National Cemetery Administration operating cost with no award record; only the burial-allowance and grant pieces appear on USAspending.

Compared categories · FY2024

Grey = GDX expenditure · teal = USAspending obligations (amber when outside tolerance)

Each pair is scaled to its own larger value.

  1. Compensation & Pension100.0%
  2. Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment100.0%
  3. Insurance & Indemnities106.0%
  4. Construction43.6%

Multi-year trend, compared categories

Sum of the categories compared in each year

$0$1.2B$2.3B$3.5B$4.7B1213141516171819202122232425FY2012 GDX $1.4BFY2012 USAspending $1.9BFY2013 GDX $1.7BFY2013 USAspending $1.6BFY2014 GDX $2.1BFY2014 USAspending $1.9BFY2015 GDX $2.4BFY2015 USAspending $2.1BFY2016 GDX $2.5BFY2016 USAspending $2.4BFY2017 GDX $2.4BFY2017 USAspending $2.4BFY2018 GDX $2.3BFY2018 USAspending $2.1BFY2019 GDX $2.5BFY2019 USAspending $2.5BFY2020 GDX $2.5BFY2020 USAspending $2.6BFY2021 GDX $2.7BFY2021 USAspending $2.7BFY2022 GDX $3.1BFY2022 USAspending $3.1BFY2023 GDX $3.4BFY2023 USAspending $3.4BFY2024 GDX $3.6BFY2024 USAspending $3.6BFY2025 GDX $4.3BFY2025 USAspending $4.3B
GDX expenditureUSAspending obligationsBreaks mark years not compared.
What makes up the USAspending side · FY2024

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 Colorado).

Assistance listings

Obligations mapped into compared categories

  • VETERANS COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY
    64.109 · Compensation & Pension · 734 rows
    $3.0B
  • POST-9/11 VETERANS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
    64.028 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 653 rows
    $341M
  • VETERANS DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DEATH
    64.110 · Compensation & Pension · 547 rows
    $143M
  • VETERAN READINESS AND EMPLOYMENT
    64.116 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 511 rows
    $41.6M
  • SURVIVORS AND DEPENDENTS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
    64.117 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 543 rows
    $36.8M
  • PENSION FOR NON-SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY FOR VETERANS
    64.104 · Compensation & Pension · 499 rows
    $25.8M
  • LIFE INSURANCE FOR VETERANS - DIRECT PAYMENTS FOR INSURANCE
    64.031 · Insurance & Indemnities · 842 rows
    $10.2M
  • PENSION TO VETERANS SURVIVING SPOUSES, AND CHILDREN
    64.105 · Compensation & Pension · 399 rows
    $7.7M
  • ALL-VOLUNTEER FORCE EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
    64.124 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 239 rows
    $4.1M
  • AUTOMOBILES AND ADAPTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR CERTAIN DISABLED VETERANS AND MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES
    64.100 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 57 rows
    $3.1M
  • SPECIALLY ADAPTED HOUSING FOR DISABLED VETERANS
    64.106 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 47 rows
    $2.3M
  • MONTGOMERY GI BILL SELECTED RESERVE
    64.032 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 206 rows
    $866K
  • MONTHLY ALLOWANCE FOR CHILDREN OF VIETNAM VETERANS BORN WITH SPINA BIFIDA
    64.127 · Compensation & Pension · 108 rows
    $361K
  • VETERAN RAPID RETRAINING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
    64.130 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 40 rows
    $241K
  • POST-VIETNAM ERA VETERANS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
    64.120 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 43 rows
    $66K

Construction contractors

PSC Y contracts performed in this state

Awarding offices (construction)

Office that recorded the obligation

  • NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 23 (36C263)
    1 awards
    $2.4M
  • NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMIN (36C786)
    7 awards
    $791K
  • NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 19 (36C259)
    1 awards
    $321K
  • PCAC (36C776)
    1 awards
    $162K
Pattern · geographic reconciliation variance

Observations for Colorado, all years

Every year in which a compared category for Colorado sat outside the tolerance band. Evidence strength follows the site-wide formula; the note is the most applicable benign explanation.

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.
CategoryGDX expenditureHow GDX places itWhy not compared
Medical Care$2.0BPatient'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.
Loan Guaranty$1.6MThrough 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.
Memorial Benefits$24.3MPlace of performance (NCA) and county of the beneficiary (VBA burial).Mostly National Cemetery Administration operating cost with no award record; only the burial-allowance and grant pieces appear on USAspending.
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 FY2024 · USAspending.gov (VA, agency 036)