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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$633,327,528

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

agricultureexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2021 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2021-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-05-19·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_222IL058N1199_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 Illinois schools for meal reimbursement and nutrition services.

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

Ongoing entitlement ensuring 4.6 million low-income students in Illinois have access to subsidized breakfast and lunch daily.

Supply-chain signal

Sustains demand for food distributors, agricultural commodities, and school cafeteria operations across Illinois.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-20. Cost: $0.002799.

Period of performance
Start
2021-10-01
End
2023-09-30
Status
expired964 days ago
Sources

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