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National School Lunch Program in California

CFDA 10.555 — federal program obligations to California

Total obligated

$24.75B

Awards

25

The National School Lunch Program (CFDA 10.555) shows $24,180,223,136.81 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to California, on 25 awards. This page joins that USDA catalog program to California place-of-performance. It is not a count of meals served, not a count of school districts, and not an outlay conversion. Twenty-five rows can still carry a large federal-to-state nutrition book. USAspending.gov is the source.

Key figures

  • CFDA 10.555 × California records $24,180,223,136.81 in USAspending obligations.
  • 25 awards underlie that sum; the mean is about $967 million per record, not a typical meal reimbursement.
  • Matching school lunch to California is not causation and not a meal census.
  • Cite obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.

Twenty-five school-lunch awards tagged to California

CFDA 10.555 is National School Lunch Program. California (CA) is the geography tag. Together they produce $24,180,223,136.81 and 25 records. A 10.555 award tagged to Oregon or Nevada is excluded. A California SNAP (10.551) row is a different nutrition CFDA. This page does not add SNAP to the school-lunch cell.

Twenty-five awards against $24,180,223,136.81 yields a mean of about $967,208,925 per record. That mean is not a typical district’s annual lunch reimbursement and not a typical meal price. Large state-agency vehicles can dominate dollars on a short row list. This packet does not name those vehicles or districts.

Sacramento did not cause $24,180,223,136.81 by appearing as a state code. Correlation is not causation. National School Lunch Program in California is the live overlay.

What CFDA 10.555 reports without becoming a meal count

SpendingVault does not grade California’s school-meal participation or its universal-meals policy. $24,180,223,136.81 is an obligation sum, not a tray count. CFDA 10.555 is the national hub without the California filter. This packet has no national school-lunch total, so none is quoted.

FNS meal-count files and CDE nutrition dashboards are other series. They are not the 25 USAspending.gov awards. Mixing a meal count from those files with this join would invent a per-meal dollar figure the packet does not support.

Full analysis: National School Lunch Program federal funding in California →

Questions

How much National School Lunch is obligated in California?
USAspending.gov records $24,180,223,136.81 in CFDA 10.555 obligations across 25 awards coded to California. That is a program × state join, not an outlay and not California’s full federal total.
Does 25 awards mean 25 school districts?
No. It is an award-row count. $24,180,223,136.81 ÷ 25 is about $967 million per record as a mean, not a typical district reimbursement. This packet does not list districts.
Does this include SNAP?
No. The cell is CFDA 10.555 only. SNAP is CFDA 10.551, a separate join. The $24,180,223,136.81 does not swallow SNAP.
Where is the live overlay?
National School Lunch Program in California is the overlay. See California federal spending, California programs, CFDA 10.555, and All spending ties. Later ingests override this snapshot.

USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.

How this pair fits

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