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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$581,215,356

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

agricultureactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-04-17·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_265NC327N1199_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 in North Carolina schools for the 2025–2026 school year.

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

Ensures federal nutrition support reaches ~900,000 eligible students; a core entitlement protecting child food security.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for USDA-approved food suppliers and school meal vendors in North Carolina; sustains regional food-service infrastructure.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.002770.

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

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