National School Lunch Program federal funding in California

Twenty-five school-lunch awards tagged to California

CFDA 10.555 is National School Lunch Program. California (CA) is the geography tag. Together they produce $24,180,223,136.81 and 25 records. A 10.555 award tagged to Oregon or Nevada is excluded. A California SNAP (10.551) row is a different nutrition CFDA. This page does not add SNAP to the school-lunch cell.

Twenty-five awards against $24,180,223,136.81 yields a mean of about $967,208,925 per record. That mean is not a typical district’s annual lunch reimbursement and not a typical meal price. Large state-agency vehicles can dominate dollars on a short row list. This packet does not name those vehicles or districts.

Sacramento did not cause $24,180,223,136.81 by appearing as a state code. Correlation is not causation. National School Lunch Program in California is the live overlay.

What CFDA 10.555 reports without becoming a meal count

SpendingVault does not grade California’s school-meal participation or its universal-meals policy. $24,180,223,136.81 is an obligation sum, not a tray count. CFDA 10.555 is the national hub without the California filter. This packet has no national school-lunch total, so none is quoted.

FNS meal-count files and CDE nutrition dashboards are other series. They are not the 25 USAspending.gov awards. Mixing a meal count from those files with this join would invent a per-meal dollar figure the packet does not support.

California’s statewide book besides 10.555

California federal spending covers every CFDA coded to the state. California programs is the catalog directory. SNAP is a sibling USDA line, not this join. $24,180,223,136.81 is one cell.

Place-of-performance California on a school-lunch vehicle is often a state agency address. It is not a map of cafeterias. This packet has no county or district split of the $24,180,223,136.81.

Obligations versus reimbursement cash

An obligation is a recorded commitment. An outlay is a payment. $24,180,223,136.81 is the commitment figure. This page does not convert the 25 awards into meal reimbursements already paid.

State budget documents and CDE appropriations are different ledgers. Keep the citation on USAspending.gov.

How to cite the 10.555–California join

Cite: National School Lunch Program (CFDA 10.555) obligated $24,180,223,136.81 on 25 awards coded to California, per USAspending.gov. Keep both keys. Do not invent a fiscal year. All spending ties stores this pair with other program-by-state pages.

Later bulk files can move the dollars and the 25-award count. Prefer the overlay National School Lunch Program in California when the live table and this snapshot diverge.

What 25 school-lunch rows will not be asked to prove

This page will not treat 25 awards as 25 counties or 25 school districts. It will not compute a per-meal figure because the packet has no meal count. It will not rank California against other states on 10.555. Peer totals are not in these facts.

SNAP remains outside $24,180,223,136.81. California federal spending, California programs, CFDA 10.555, and All spending ties are the parent hubs. None of them recasts this join as a grade of California’s school-meal program or as an outlay.

The mean of about $967 million per record is a quotient, not a typical district year. Keep both the program name and California in every citation sentence. Treat this JSON as a packet snapshot. If a later ingest disagrees, the overlay wins. Keep USAspending.gov as the cited source and keep the obligation label on every sentence that uses the total.

School-lunch dollars often flow to a state agency that then reimburses districts. A California-tagged state vehicle can therefore carry a large share of the $24,180,223,136.81 even though meals are served in thousands of cafeterias. This packet cannot split that pass-through. It only reports 25 awards and the obligation sum.

Universal-meals policy debates are outside the extract. Using them to “explain” the $24,180,223,136.81 would import a legislative claim the packet does not contain. FNS meal counts remain a different series from these 25 USAspending.gov rows.

If a later bulk load changes the 25-award count or the dollars, trust National School Lunch Program in California over this snapshot. California federal spending and California programs remain the parent directory. Do not freeze $24,180,223,136.81 as a permanent USDA press total. Keep both keys in the citation sentence.

Questions

How much National School Lunch is obligated in California?

USAspending.gov records $24,180,223,136.81 in CFDA 10.555 obligations across 25 awards coded to California. That is a program × state join, not an outlay and not California’s full federal total.

Does 25 awards mean 25 school districts?

No. It is an award-row count. $24,180,223,136.81 ÷ 25 is about $967 million per record as a mean, not a typical district reimbursement. This packet does not list districts.

Does this include SNAP?

No. The cell is CFDA 10.555 only. SNAP is CFDA 10.551, a separate join. The $24,180,223,136.81 does not swallow SNAP.

Where is the live overlay?

National School Lunch Program in California is the overlay. See California federal spending, California programs, CFDA 10.555, and All spending ties. Later ingests override this snapshot.