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State Administrative Matching Grants for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Tennessee

CFDA 10.561 — federal program obligations to Tennessee

Total obligated

$597.2M

Awards

29

USAspending.gov records $560,268,416.76 in State Administrative Matching Grants for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (CFDA 10.561) obligations with Tennessee place of performance, spread across 28 awards. The pair is a Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance line joined to a state geography tag, not a count of SNAP households and not a grocery-benefit ledger. Obligations are commitments posted on the award file, not cash drawn down. Dividing $560,268,416.76 by 28 awards yields about $20,009,586 per award on average.

Key figures

  • CFDA 10.561 shows $560,268,416.76 in Tennessee obligations on 28 awards.
  • Implied mean is about $20,009,586 per award.
  • The catalog is SNAP administrative matching, not SNAP benefit issuance.
  • Tennessee is a place-of-performance tag, not a county ledger.
  • Figures are USAspending.gov obligations, not outlays.

What this Tennessee × 10.561 join is

This page keeps only USAspending rows that carry both keys: CFDA 10.561 and Tennessee as place of performance. $560,268,416.76 is the obligation sum on that intersection. The nationwide CFDA 10.561 program page includes every state. The Tennessee federal spending hub includes every CFDA coded to TN. Neither parent is this cell. The overlay State Administrative Matching Grants For The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Tennessee is the table view of the same 28 awards.

CFDA 10.561 is titled STATE ADMINISTRATIVE MATCHING GRANTS FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. The catalog funds state administrative costs that match federal SNAP rules, not the monthly benefit payments themselves. This packet does not publish a separate SNAP issuance CFDA, a caseload, or a per-recipient dollar. Treating $560,268,416.76 as Tennessee’s entire nutrition budget leaves the definition of the join.

Twenty-eight awards is a concentrated count for more than half a billion dollars. Administrative matching often posts as a modest number of large assistance instruments to a state agency rather than thousands of store-level invoices. The extract still does not name those recipients, list award IDs, or split the 28 rows by fiscal year. Those fields are absent from the packet facts. Correlation is not causation: a large admin-matching total does not prove that SNAP participation rose or fell because of this cell.

How to read 28 awards against $560 million

The implied mean is about $20,009,586 ($560,268,416.76 ÷ 28). That quotient is a blend of whatever instruments sit in the extract, including modifications if USAspending nets them into the same award records. It is not a median, not a typical county office budget, and not a cost per SNAP household. A few large statewide grants can dominate the mean while smaller amendments still count toward the 28.

Cite both columns together. A high dollar with a low award count is a signature of formula-style administrative assistance, not evidence of a single contract. SpendingVault does not recast the mean as an invoice. The source is USAspending.gov; the facts on this page are state TN, CFDA 10.561, program name State Administrative Matching Grants For The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, $560,268,416.76 in obligations, and 28 awards.

Full analysis: SNAP administrative matching grants in Tennessee

Questions

How much SNAP administrative matching funding is in Tennessee?
USAspending.gov shows $560,268,416.76 in CFDA 10.561 obligations coded to Tennessee across 28 awards. The join uses the program number and TN place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays, and it is administrative matching—not a SNAP household benefit ledger.
Why are there only 28 awards for $560 million?
Administrative matching often posts as a modest set of large state-agency awards. The extract counts 28 records tagged to CFDA 10.561 and Tennessee. Dividing $560,268,416.76 by 28 yields about $20,009,586 per award. That mean is a blend, not a typical county invoice, and the packet does not name recipients.
Is $560 million Tennessee’s full federal nutrition spending?
No. $560,268,416.76 is only the CFDA 10.561 cell with Tennessee place of performance. Other programs sit on the Tennessee programs index. Nationwide CFDA 10.561 includes every state, so it is not this intersection. SNAP household benefit issuance is a different catalog line and is not in these facts.
Do these obligations equal cash spent on SNAP administration?
No. $560,268,416.76 is an obligation sum from USAspending.gov. Outlays are a different series. The packet does not publish a Tennessee 10.561 outlay total or identify the 28 award recipients by name. Cite the figure as a commitment aggregate, not as cash drawn.

USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.

How this pair fits

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