Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — CFDA 10.551

What $216.92 billion on 201 awards means

Assistance listing 10.551 is titled SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $216,919,151,599.58. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $216,919,151,599.58 as grocery cash already spent mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

201 awards sit under that dollar book—a small record count next to a large sum. Dividing $216,919,151,599.58 by 201 produces a mean near $1.08 billion per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical household allotment and not a per-meal cost. SNAP dollars often sit on large state-agency assistance actions, which is why 201 records can carry $216,919,151,599.58.

The 63 recipients in the extract are organizational recipients stored on those award rows, not a count of SNAP households. 56 states appear in the place-of-performance coding. None of those volume stats converts the dollar total into participation.

63 recipients and 56 states

CFDA 10.551 lists 63 recipients and 56 states against 201 awards. Recipient count is not unique shoppers. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing. A state SNAP agency can appear on multiple awards; 63 is not a headcount of grocery retailers. The 56-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, not a store-location map.

Because 201 awards are few relative to the dollar total, a handful of large state actions can move $216,919,151,599.58 without a matching jump in the 63-recipient count. Extra modifications can lift award volume while dollars barely move. The SNAP hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another.

Obligations versus SNAP outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $216,919,151,599.58 figure for CFDA 10.551 can include commitments that will disburse later. USDA SNAP participation tables, redemption reports, and a single fiscal year’s nutrition appropriation are different publications. This page does not translate the obligation total into those series.

If a number you expected is missing, the usual cause is a different reporting concept. Start from the obligation definition, then open the 10.551 program page. Do not stretch 201 awards or 63 recipients to cover every nutrition dollar that touches a state.

What the 10.551 tables omit

The SNAP hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a household roster, not an EBT transaction file, and not a retailer authorization list. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $216,919,151,599.58. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 201 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 56 states is a coding field. A statewide grantee coded to one cell can dominate geography while redemptions occur in many counties. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 10.551

A complete citation is $216,919,151,599.58 in obligations for CFDA 10.551, covering 201 awards, 63 recipients, and 56 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is concentration rather than dollars, lead with 201 awards and 63 recipients, then the dollar total.

Start with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is eligibility advice.

A worked reading of the 10.551 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $216,919,151,599.58, 201 awards, 63 recipients, and 56 states under CFDA 10.551. The mean near $1.08 billion is a quotient from a small award count, not a household allotment. If a later USAspending.gov file adds a few large state actions, dollars can jump while 63 recipients barely move. If modifications proliferate, 201 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $216,919,151,599.58.

Nothing in the extract splits SNAP into benefits versus administration, or into issuance versus redemption. Those cuts live in USDA publications. Treat CFDA 10.551 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the SNAP program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 201 awards and 63 recipients next to the dollars so the low record count is visible.

Questions

How much is obligated under SNAP on USAspending?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $216,919,151,599.58 in obligations for CFDA 10.551, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not an EBT redemption total. The same extract lists 201 awards, 63 recipients, and 56 states.

Why does CFDA 10.551 have only 201 awards?

The indexed award count is 201. SNAP dollars often sit on a relatively small number of large state-agency assistance actions, which is why $216,919,151,599.58 can coexist with a low record count. The 201 figure is a file statistic, not a count of households or stores. 63 organizational recipients are stored on those rows.

Does the SNAP total include money already spent at stores?

Not as a cash-paid or redeemed sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $216,919,151,599.58 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 201-award count is a record tally, not a count of EBT transactions. Cite CFDA 10.551 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 10.551?

The extract codes 56 states for SNAP. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every authorized retailer. Those rows still sit under the $216,919,151,599.58 obligation total and the 63-recipient count. Cite CFDA 10.551 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.