National School Lunch Program in Tennessee

The 10.555–Tennessee join

CFDA 10.555 is titled NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. Crossed with Tennessee place of performance, obligations sum to $2,990,792,085.38 on 20 awards. The national National School Lunch Program hub includes other states. Tennessee’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,990,792,085.38 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a cafeteria list or a free-and-reduced-price census.

20 awards is a concentrated child-nutrition pattern: NSLP typically posts as a modest number of large assistance instruments to a state. The implied mean of about $149.54 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 $2,990,792,085.38, 20 awards, TN, and 10.555. Correlation is not causation. Twenty NSLP instruments carrying $2,990,792,085.38 is a state-agency pattern, not 20 cafeterias and not 20 districts named in the facts.

School lunch is not SNAP or WIC in this cell

The catalog title names National School Lunch Program. It is not SNAP, WIC, or school-breakfast catalogs (those are different rows). Mixing other catalogs into $2,990,792,085.38 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Tennessee, CFDA 10.555, $2,990,792,085.38, 20 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,990,792,085.38 by 20 yields about $149.54 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 20 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.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 Tennessee?

USAspending records $2,990,792,085.38 in CFDA 10.555 obligations with Tennessee place of performance on 20 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep National School Lunch Program and Tennessee together when citing $2,990,792,085.38. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 20 awards mean 20 people or contractors?

No. 20 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $149.54 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,990,792,085.38 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 20 awards mean 20 Tennessee school districts?

No. $2,990,792,085.38 is only the 10.555 × Tennessee cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Tennessee program pages. Nationwide 10.555 is not limited to Tennessee. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.555 × TN pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Tennessee 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–Tennessee table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.