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Awards/BLOCK GRANT (A)

$149,061,146

Department of Health and Human Services·Administration for Children and Families

to DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICE

ACTION DATE2026-04-06·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_2401ILFOST_075
Award description

FOSTER-2024

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

Federal block grant to state child welfare agency for foster care and family services programs in fiscal year 2024.

Sub-sectors
foster-carechild-welfareblock-grant
Why this matters

Sustains critical child protection infrastructure; $149B indicates major federal commitment to state-administered foster care systems.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.001904.

Period of performance
Start
2023-10-01
End
2024-09-30
Status
expired594 days ago
Sources

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