Food for Education — CFDA 10.608

Food-for-education obligations at $680.3M

USAspending.gov records $680,294,952 in obligations under CFDA 10.608. Thirty-two awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $21.26 million per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical commodity-grant invoice and not a cost per school feeding day.

The assistance-listing title is FOOD FOR EDUCATION. CFDA 10.608 is the identifier. Other USDA food-aid or school-nutrition listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $680.3M. Combining those codes would invent a combined feeding total this packet does not contain.

16 recipients, 32 awards, and 0 states

Sixteen recipients share 32 awards, or 2.0 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $680,294,952 evenly would assign about $42.52 million per recipient. That density is a small-grantee, large-award pattern: few named organizations carrying sizable assistance rows. The packet does not list the 16. Recipient count is the organizational headcount on the federal extract, not a census of schools or implementing partners.

The geographic count is 0. That is not a claim that Food for Education has no place of performance; it is a blank in the USAspending state field on this extract. Overseas or otherwise uncoded awards often sit outside the 50-state map. Do not invent a state roster. Quote the 0 as the indexed field, then read award count and dollars.

A thin award file is not a meal census

Among USDA food-aid listings, 10.608 is a low-row file: 32 awards against 16 recipients. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of school-feeding programs” and a worse proxy for meals served. Recipients (16) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (32) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report metric tons, school enrollment, or feeding days. Citing 32 as classrooms would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients — and a blank state field.

Obligations versus commodity outlays

The $680.3M is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash or commodity value paid against Food for Education awards — are not in the packet. A cooperative file can show a large obligation stock while shipments follow a later calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 10.608 to size this Food for Education listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a domestic school-lunch dashboard. Those series live under other CFDA numbers. This page reports the obligation book tagged 10.608.

What the 10.608 tables omit

The program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a commodity inventory, not a school directory, and not a country-by-country feeding log. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $680,294,952. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 32 award rows.

The 0-state geographic count is a coding field, not a finding that work had no location. Read the program page before treating the blank as a 50-state equal share. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid to cooperators.

Food for Education’s blank state field and 16-recipient headcount together describe an overseas or uncoded cooperative, not a domestic school-lunch formula. A researcher comparing 10.608 with NSLP or McGovern-Dole codes under other numbers should keep CFDA identifiers separate. The $680.3M stock is the USAspending obligation book for this listing only.

Where the 10.608 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 10.608 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other USDA listings. For 10.608 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 10.608’s 32 awards spread $680,294,952 across 16 recipients with 0 states coded. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. Two award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Commodity shipments and school-feeding days live in other USDA series. Those rows are outside $680,294,952 unless they share CFDA 10.608. Quote 32 as assistance records, 16 as organizational payees, and 0 as the indexed state count.

Questions

How much is obligated for Food for Education?

USAspending.gov records $680.3M in obligations for CFDA 10.608. SpendingVault indexes 32 awards, 16 recipients, and 0 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a meal count. CFDA 10.608’s $680,294,952 is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 10.608 carry?

The listing shows 32 awards against 16 recipients, or 2.0 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $21.26 million per award. Award count is not a count of schools or metric tons. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

Why does Food for Education show 0 states?

The extract lists a geographic count of 0. That is the indexed USAspending state field on this packet, not proof that awards had no place of performance. Sixteen recipients still sit on 32 assistance rows. The packet does not name the 16 or publish a country roster.

Is $680.3M already paid for school feeding?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 10.608’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, commodity shipments, or meals served. The $680,294,952 on 32 awards is the obligation figure. Keep dollars, awards, recipients, and geography as separate units on the USAspending extract.