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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$2,598,363,588

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to AGRICULTURE, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF

agricultureactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-04-17·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_266TX332N1199_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 Texas's Child Nutrition Program, providing meals and nutrition assistance to eligible children through schools and institutions.

Sub-sectors
child-nutritionsnap-entitlementformula-grant
Why this matters

CNP is a foundational federal entitlement supporting food security and child development for low-income families; Texas receives one of the largest allocations nationally.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for food suppliers, school cafeteria operators, and logistics providers serving Texas K-12 institutions and child-care facilities.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.002784.

Period of performance
Start
2025-10-01
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 92 days
Sources

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