National School Lunch Program in Indiana

How Indiana meets CFDA 10.555

CFDA 10.555 is titled NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. Crossed with Indiana place of performance, obligations sum to $2,858,325,739.60 on 13 awards. The national National School Lunch Program hub includes other states. Indiana’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,858,325,739.60 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a corporation-school list or a meal-count.

13 awards is a concentrated child-nutrition pattern close to Louisiana’s 12-row NSLP cell. The implied mean of about $219.87 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 $2,858,325,739.60, 13 awards, IN, and 10.555. Correlation is not causation. Thirteen NSLP instruments carrying $2,858,325,739.60 sit next to Louisiana’s 12-row lunch cell in this slice without ranking either state’s cafeterias.

NSLP is not a child-care food program here

The catalog title names National School Lunch Program. It is not SNAP, WIC, or child-and-adult-care food catalogs. Mixing other catalogs into $2,858,325,739.60 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Indiana, CFDA 10.555, $2,858,325,739.60, 13 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,858,325,739.60 by 13 yields about $219.87 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 13 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Indiana geography on the lunch tag

IN is the place-of-performance code. Awards coded to Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, or Michigan stay outside $2,858,325,739.60 even when a student later moves. A statewide lunch award can still appear as records tagged to Indianapolis or another in-state address. The code does not convert $2,858,325,739.60 into a county map or a ranking of places as winners or losers.

Indiana federal spending is the all-program parent. 10.555 is one row on Indiana programs. $2,858,325,739.60 is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open National School Lunch Program in Indiana for the filtered table, CFDA 10.555 for 10.555 without a Indiana filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,858,325,739.60.

13 awards under $2.86 billion

$2,858,325,739.60 ÷ 13 is about $219.87 million per award. That average is not a median and not a typical household, student, or meal payment. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 13 as a record count. Indiana Pell in this slice is a different Education Department catalog; those dollars are not inside the lunch total.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $2,858,325,739.60 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 13 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $2,858,325,739.60 without changing the join key of 10.555 and IN.

What NSLP in Indiana does not show

A 10.555 total tagged to Indiana does not measure program quality, and it does not equal cash already paid. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $2,858,325,739.60 on 13 awards for National School Lunch Program in Indiana.

Keep both sides of the join: National School Lunch Program and Indiana, obligations only. Do not annualize $2,858,325,739.60 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 13 as a person or contractor census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a policy story.

The school-lunch–Indiana overlay

The overlay target is the Indiana × CFDA 10.555 table. Open National School Lunch Program in Indiana when you want the same $2,858,325,739.60 / 13-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 10.555 drops the Indiana filter. Indiana federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Indiana programs lists other catalogs beside 10.555. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Indiana won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 10.555 plus IN. Obligations of $2,858,325,739.60 are not outlays.

Questions

How much National School Lunch Program funding is obligated in Indiana?

USAspending records $2,858,325,739.60 in CFDA 10.555 obligations with Indiana place of performance on 13 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep National School Lunch Program and Indiana together when citing $2,858,325,739.60. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 13 awards mean 13 people or contractors?

No. 13 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $219.87 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,858,325,739.60 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $2.86 billion Indiana’s full federal child-nutrition spend?

No. $2,858,325,739.60 is only the 10.555 × Indiana cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Indiana program pages. Nationwide 10.555 is not limited to Indiana. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.555 × IN pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Indiana 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–Indiana table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.