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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$2,095,804,818

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CALIFORNIA

educationexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2024 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2024-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-03-03·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_257CACA3N1199_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

Latest obligation under California's Child Nutrition Program, which began in October 2024, supporting school meal subsidies.

Sub-sectors
school-nutritionchild-nutrition-programformula-grant
Why this matters

Ensures federal nutrition funding reaches low-income students; formula grants are entitlements tied to enrollment and poverty metrics.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for food service vendors, meal suppliers, and school cafeteria operations across California districts.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.002713.

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

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