National School Lunch Program in New Jersey

How 10.555 and New Jersey meet

The $3,524,826,074 figure is the obligation sum on awards that carry both CFDA 10.555 (NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM) and New Jersey as place of performance. The national lunch-program hub includes every state. The New Jersey spending hub includes every CFDA. Neither parent equals this cell.

Twelve awards is a thin count for a multi-billion-dollar nutrition stream. State administering agencies often receive a small number of large assistance awards and then reimburse local operators. The join does not identify those operators, Newark versus South Jersey splits, or free-meal shares.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $3,524,826,074 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 10.555 and NJ. The overlay table at the program-in-state path is the same cell rendered as a page; this narrative is the join explained in prose. Nothing here ranks New Jersey against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Twelve awards totaling $3,524,826,074 look sparse next to a voucher catalog with thousands of rows, but nutrition reimbursements often post that way. The about $293.74 million mean is a state-scale reimbursement stream, not a per-meal price and not a typical school’s lunch account.

Lunch catalog, not the whole child-nutrition budget

Breakfast, summer meals, and child-care food programs use other CFDA numbers. Combining them with $3,524,826,074 would invent a total the facts do not support. SNAP and WIC are different catalogs as well.

Packet facts: New Jersey, CFDA 10.555, $3,524,826,074, 12 awards. Commodity value, administrative expense, and school names are absent. The title names the program, not a cafeteria audit.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $3,524,826,074, 12 awards, CFDA 10.555, program title National School Lunch Program, and geography NJ/New Jersey. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 12 awards into $3,524,826,074 is about $293.74 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

New Jersey also has transit, voucher, CHIP, waiver, and special-education ties in this portfolio. None of those dollars belong in $3,524,826,074. CFDA 10.555 × NJ is the only pair reported here.

Questions

How much National School Lunch Program funding is obligated in New Jersey?

USAspending records $3,524,826,074 in CFDA 10.555 obligations with New Jersey place of performance across 12 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not every nutrition CFDA.

Why so few awards?

The facts show 12 awards totaling $3,524,826,074. Statewide lunch catalogs often post a small number of large awards to a state agency. Meal counts are not in the packet facts.

Is this New Jersey’s total federal spending?

No. This join filters CFDA 10.555 only. Other programs appear on the New Jersey programs list and the statewide hub.

Are obligations the same as money spent on lunches?

No. Obligations are commitments. The $3,524,826,074 figure is not an outlay and not a per-meal expenditure.