National School Lunch Program in Indiana

How Indiana meets CFDA 10.555

CFDA 10.555 is titled NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. Crossed with Indiana place of performance, obligations sum to $2,858,325,739.60 on 13 awards. The national National School Lunch Program hub includes other states. Indiana’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,858,325,739.60 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a corporation-school list or a meal-count.

13 awards is a concentrated child-nutrition pattern close to Louisiana’s 12-row NSLP cell. The implied mean of about $219.87 million per award is a state-agency scale, not a typical per-meal reimbursement. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $2,858,325,739.60, 13 awards, IN, and 10.555. Correlation is not causation. Thirteen NSLP instruments carrying $2,858,325,739.60 sit next to Louisiana’s 12-row lunch cell in this slice without ranking either state’s cafeterias.

NSLP is not a child-care food program here

The catalog title names National School Lunch Program. It is not SNAP, WIC, or child-and-adult-care food catalogs. Mixing other catalogs into $2,858,325,739.60 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Indiana, CFDA 10.555, $2,858,325,739.60, 13 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,858,325,739.60 by 13 yields about $219.87 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 13 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Questions

How much National School Lunch Program funding is obligated in Indiana?

USAspending records $2,858,325,739.60 in CFDA 10.555 obligations with Indiana place of performance on 13 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep National School Lunch Program and Indiana together when citing $2,858,325,739.60. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 13 awards mean 13 people or contractors?

No. 13 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $219.87 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,858,325,739.60 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $2.86 billion Indiana’s full federal child-nutrition spend?

No. $2,858,325,739.60 is only the 10.555 × Indiana cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Indiana program pages. Nationwide 10.555 is not limited to Indiana. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.555 × IN pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Indiana as better or worse.

Have these National School Lunch Program dollars already been paid?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. This join does not name recipients or contractors. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live National School Lunch Program–Indiana table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.