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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$201,330,616

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

agricultureexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2020 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2020-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-05-19·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_212IL058N1099_012
Award description

SCHOOL FOOD PROGRAMS

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 National School Lunch Program in Illinois, providing meals to eligible K-12 students.

Sub-sectors
school-lunch-programsformula-grant-entitlementchild-nutrition
Why this matters

School nutrition is a foundational entitlement affecting 800K+ Illinois students' food security and academic performance annually.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for USDA commodity procurement and state food-service logistics networks; signals sustained institutional food-service spending.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-21. Cost: $0.002788.

Period of performance
Start
2020-10-01
End
2021-09-30
Status
expired1714 days ago
Sources

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