National School Lunch Program in Kentucky

Kentucky on the NSLP table

CFDA 10.555 is titled NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. Crossed with Kentucky place of performance, obligations sum to $2,795,995,623.88 on 12 awards. The national National School Lunch Program hub includes other states. Kentucky’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,795,995,623.88 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a district cafeteria list or an eligibility census.

12 awards matches Louisiana’s NSLP row count in this slice, with an implied mean of about $233.00 million per award. That mean is a state-agency scale, not a typical per-meal reimbursement, and not a ranking of states by need. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $2,795,995,623.88, 12 awards, KY, and 10.555. Correlation is not causation. Twelve NSLP instruments carrying $2,795,995,623.88 match Louisiana’s lunch row count in this slice; matching row counts is not matching meal programs.

School lunch versus other USDA nutrition rows

The catalog title names National School Lunch Program. It is not SNAP, WIC, or breakfast catalogs. Mixing other catalogs into $2,795,995,623.88 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Kentucky, CFDA 10.555, $2,795,995,623.88, 12 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,795,995,623.88 by 12 yields about $233.00 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 12 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.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 Kentucky?

USAspending records $2,795,995,623.88 in CFDA 10.555 obligations with Kentucky place of performance on 12 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep National School Lunch Program and Kentucky together when citing $2,795,995,623.88. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 12 awards mean 12 people or contractors?

No. 12 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $233.00 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,795,995,623.88 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 12 awards mean 12 Kentucky school districts?

No. $2,795,995,623.88 is only the 10.555 × Kentucky cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Kentucky program pages. Nationwide 10.555 is not limited to Kentucky. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.555 × KY pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Kentucky 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–Kentucky table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.