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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$499,821,523

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to ALABAMA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

agricultureexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2024 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2024-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-04-17·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_255AL322N1199_012
Award description

CNP CN BLOCK PROG

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Funds the Child Nutrition Program block grant to Alabama schools for meal reimbursement and nutrition services in fiscal year 2025.

Sub-sectors
child-nutritionschool-lunch-programformula-grant-entitlement
Why this matters

Ensures federal nutrition support reaches ~750,000 Alabama students; part of $40B+ annual USDA child nutrition entitlement.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for food suppliers, meal-service vendors, and school cafeteria operations across Alabama's K-12 system.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.002863.

Period of performance
Start
2024-10-01
End
2025-09-30
Status
expired273 days ago
Sources

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