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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$695,715,664

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to PUBLIC HEALTH, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF

social-servicesactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-04-17·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_267CACA7W1006_012
Award description

WIC FOOD EXPENSE

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 California's WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) food benefit program for low-income pregnant women, new mothers, and young children.

Sub-sectors
wic-nutritionformula-grant-entitlementstate-administration
Why this matters

WIC is a foundational nutrition safety net serving ~1.2M Californians annually; this obligation ensures continuity of food assistance through fiscal 2026.

Supply-chain signal

Sustains demand for authorized WIC-eligible foods (infant formula, dairy, produce, cereals) from retail and wholesale suppliers across California.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.002878.

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

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