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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$385,442,950

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TENNESSEE

agricultureactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-04-17·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_265TN330N1199_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

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In plain English

Funds the Child Nutrition Program block grant to Tennessee schools for meal reimbursement and nutrition services.

Sub-sectors
child-nutritionschool-lunch-programformula-grant
Why this matters

Ensures low-income students access nutritious meals; critical entitlement supporting child health and academic readiness.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for food suppliers, meal-service vendors, and school nutrition infrastructure in Tennessee.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-18. Cost: $0.002738.

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