National School Lunch Program funding in Illinois
National School Lunch Program (CFDA 10.555) obligations tagged to Illinois total $6,445,894,543.78 on USAspending.gov across 22 awards. Twenty-two rows sit between SNAP’s three-row Illinois cell and a highway file with thousands of actions. The join is USDA school lunch plus an IL place-of-performance tag, not a count of meals served and not a Chicago Public Schools budget line. Twenty-two Illinois lunch actions sit between SNAP’s three-row Illinois cell and a highway file with thousands of rows; $6,445,894,543.78 is the 10.555 sum.
Key figures
- Illinois NSLP (CFDA 10.555): $6,445,894,543.78 on 22 USAspending awards.
- The implied mean is about $293,086,100 per award; that is not the price of a lunch.
- Do not add this cell to Illinois SNAP as an official nutrition total.
- Cite obligations, not meals served; no school year is in the packet.
- The join is 10.555 × IL, not a district ranking.
Twenty-two lunch vehicles on an Illinois tag
Keep USAspending rows labeled NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM whose geography is Illinois (IL). Twenty-two awards remain. They sum to $6,445,894,543.78. NSLP reimburses participating schools and school food authorities. The federal-to-state or federal-to-SFA relationship can appear as a modest number of large assistance actions rather than one row per cafeteria.
The implied mean is about $293,086,100 per award. That is vehicle size, not the value of a student lunch. Unique schools, unique meals, and unique free/reduced-price counts are unpublished.
Illinois federal spending is every CFDA on IL. CFDA 10.555 is NSLP nationwide. National School Lunch Program in Illinois is the overlap. Illinois programs and All spending ties are the indexes. SNAP on 10.551 is a different Illinois pair.
State agencies and large school food authorities can receive sizable NSLP vehicles. Unique cafeterias are unpublished. 22 is an action count, not 22 districts.
Chicago Public Schools is not broken out. $6,445,894,543.78 is statewide Illinois.
Do not fold lunch into SNAP
SNAP (10.551) and NSLP (10.555) are both USDA nutrition Catalog numbers. They serve different settings. Adding $6,445,894,543.78 to the Illinois SNAP total would be arithmetic on two joins, not a published ‘Illinois nutrition’ series.
School breakfast, summer meals, and child-and-adult care Catalog numbers are also outside this cell unless they were coded 10.555. This page keeps lunch only.
Place-of-performance often follows the state agency or a large district. An IL tag does not locate every cafeteria. Chicago Public Schools is not broken out.
School breakfast and summer meals are other Catalog numbers unless coded 10.555. This page keeps lunch.
Pandemic-era meal waivers, if coded elsewhere, are outside this join. The packet does not say how waivers were posted.
Obligations versus meals served
Quote $6,445,894,543.78 as USAspending obligations for CFDA 10.555 in Illinois. Do not quote it as lunches already served or as commodity deliveries. Meal counts live in FNS publications, not this packet.
No fiscal year or school year is in the facts. Do not attach one. Cite USAspending.gov CFDA aggregates by place of performance state.
FNS meal-count publications are a different series. Do not convert $6,445,894,543.78 into lunches served.
Statewide IL, not a district ranking
This packet does not split 22 awards or $6,445,894,543.78 by district. A CPS story and a downstate-district story would need a different table. The extract stays statewide.
Do not rank Illinois child nutrition from this cell. Eligibility and participation rates are unpublished. Correlation with SNAP is not causation.
Downstate districts and CPS share IL. A district story needs a different table.
Citation line
Quote USAspending.gov: National School Lunch Program (CFDA 10.555) obligated $6,445,894,543.78 on 22 awards coded to Illinois. Name school lunch and Illinois together, and keep the cell distinct from SNAP.
The overlay National School Lunch Program in Illinois is the live pair.
Lunch is not SNAP
Adding NSLP to Illinois SNAP would mix two USDA Catalogs without an official combined series. Keep $6,445,894,543.78 on 10.555.
National School Lunch Program in Illinois is the overlay. CFDA 10.555 is the national roll-up.
Illinois NSLP’s 22 awards sit beside SNAP’s three-row Illinois cell. Both are USDA nutrition Catalog numbers and they are not an official combined series. $6,445,894,543.78 stays on CFDA 10.555. Chicago Public Schools is not a subtotal. Unique meals are unpublished. Quote USAspending obligations, not trays served, and do not convert the implied mean of about $293,086,100 into the price of a lunch.
Questions
- How much school lunch funding is obligated in Illinois?
- USAspending.gov shows $6,445,894,543.78 across 22 awards for CFDA 10.555 tagged to Illinois. That is an obligation join, not meals served.
- Is this the same as SNAP in Illinois?
- No. SNAP is CFDA 10.551. This join is only 10.555, National School Lunch Program, with an IL geography tag.
- Does 22 awards mean 22 Illinois school districts?
- No. Twenty-two is an award-action count. State agencies and large food authorities can receive large vehicles. Unique schools are unpublished here.
- Where is the live Illinois NSLP table?
- National School Lunch Program in Illinois. See also Illinois federal spending, Illinois programs, CFDA 10.555, and All spending ties.
USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.