Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$307,826,370

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ARKANSAS

agricultureexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2024 CONTRACT

WORK BEGAN2024-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-05-04·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_256AR321N1199_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

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In plain English

Funds Arkansas school meal programs under the Child Nutrition Program, providing subsidized breakfasts and lunches to eligible students.

Sub-sectors

school-lunch-nutritionchild-nutrition-programformula-grant

Why this matters

School nutrition is a federal entitlement supporting food security and child development in low-income districts; this 2024 program received a 2026 obligation increment.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for food suppliers, agricultural producers, and school food service vendors serving Arkansas K-12 institutions.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-19. Cost: $0.002798.

Period of performance

Start

2024-10-01

End

2025-09-30

Status

expired273 days ago

Recipient

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ARKANSAS

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Sources

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Award record ingested from usaspending. Source identifier ASST_NON_256AR321N1199_012.

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