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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$112,122,651

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CALIFORNIA

agricultureexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2020 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2020-12-27·LATEST ACTION2026-03-17·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_217CACA4H1703_012
Award description

SCHOOL FOOD PROGRAMS

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 school food programs under a USDA formula grant that began in 2020.

Sub-sectors
school-lunch-programsusda-formula-grantchild-nutrition
Why this matters

School meal programs ensure food security for millions of low-income students; this 2026 obligation sustains ongoing nutrition support.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for food suppliers, processors, and distributors serving California's K-12 system.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-27. Cost: $0.002717.

Period of performance
Start
2020-12-27
End
2021-09-30
Status
expired1734 days ago
Sources

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