National School Lunch Program in Massachusetts

The 10.555–Massachusetts join

CFDA 10.555 is titled NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. Crossed with Massachusetts place of performance, obligations sum to $2,747,434,363.05 on 11 awards. The national National School Lunch Program hub includes other states. Massachusetts’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,747,434,363.05 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a city school-department list or a meal census.

11 awards is the smallest NSLP row count in this slice, which raises the implied mean to about $249.77 million per award. That mean 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 $2,747,434,363.05, 11 awards, MA, and 10.555. Correlation is not causation. Eleven NSLP instruments carrying $2,747,434,363.05 is the smallest lunch row count in this slice, which lifts the implied mean without proving higher reimbursement rates.

NSLP is not a higher-education catalog

The catalog title names National School Lunch Program. It is not SNAP, WIC, or Pell (those are different catalogs). Mixing other catalogs into $2,747,434,363.05 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Massachusetts, CFDA 10.555, $2,747,434,363.05, 11 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,747,434,363.05 by 11 yields about $249.77 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 11 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.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 Massachusetts?

USAspending records $2,747,434,363.05 in CFDA 10.555 obligations with Massachusetts place of performance on 11 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep National School Lunch Program and Massachusetts together when citing $2,747,434,363.05. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 11 awards mean 11 people or contractors?

No. 11 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $249.77 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,747,434,363.05 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $2.75 billion Massachusetts’s full federal child-nutrition spend?

No. $2,747,434,363.05 is only the 10.555 × Massachusetts cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Massachusetts program pages. Nationwide 10.555 is not limited to Massachusetts. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.555 × MA pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Massachusetts 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–Massachusetts table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.