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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$224,525,761

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

agricultureactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-04-17·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_262IL058N1099_012
Award description

CNP CN BLOCK PROGRAMS TOTAL CONSOLIDATED

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 Child Nutrition Program block grants to Illinois schools for meal subsidies and food service operations.

Sub-sectors
school-lunch-programschild-nutritionformula-grant-entitlement
Why this matters

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

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for food suppliers, agricultural products, and school food-service vendors serving Illinois districts.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-20. Cost: $0.002752.

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

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