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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$1,508,885,048

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CALIFORNIA

educationactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-04-17·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_267CACA3N1199_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 California schools for meal reimbursement and nutrition services.

Sub-sectors
school-lunch-nutritionformula-grantchild-nutrition
Why this matters

Ensures low-income students have access to breakfast and lunch; reaches millions of California schoolchildren annually.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for food suppliers, meal-service contractors, and kitchen equipment vendors serving California school districts.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.002688.

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

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