National School Lunch Program in Kentucky

Kentucky on the NSLP table

CFDA 10.555 is titled NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. Crossed with Kentucky place of performance, obligations sum to $2,795,995,623.88 on 12 awards. The national National School Lunch Program hub includes other states. Kentucky’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,795,995,623.88 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a district cafeteria list or an eligibility census.

12 awards matches Louisiana’s NSLP row count in this slice, with an implied mean of about $233.00 million per award. That mean is a state-agency scale, not a typical per-meal reimbursement, and not a ranking of states by need. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $2,795,995,623.88, 12 awards, KY, and 10.555. Correlation is not causation. Twelve NSLP instruments carrying $2,795,995,623.88 match Louisiana’s lunch row count in this slice; matching row counts is not matching meal programs.

School lunch versus other USDA nutrition rows

The catalog title names National School Lunch Program. It is not SNAP, WIC, or breakfast catalogs. Mixing other catalogs into $2,795,995,623.88 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Kentucky, CFDA 10.555, $2,795,995,623.88, 12 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,795,995,623.88 by 12 yields about $233.00 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 12 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Kentucky place-of-performance notes

KY is the place-of-performance code. Awards coded to Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, or Illinois stay outside $2,795,995,623.88 even when a student later moves. A statewide lunch award can still appear as records tagged to Frankfort or another in-state address. The code does not convert $2,795,995,623.88 into a county map or a ranking of places as winners or losers.

Kentucky federal spending is the all-program parent. 10.555 is one row on Kentucky programs. $2,795,995,623.88 is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open National School Lunch Program in Kentucky for the filtered table, CFDA 10.555 for 10.555 without a Kentucky filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,795,995,623.88.

12 awards under $2.80 billion

$2,795,995,623.88 ÷ 12 is about $233.00 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 12 as a record count. Kentucky SSI in this slice is a different catalog; those dollars are not inside the $2,795,995,623.88 lunch cell.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $2,795,995,623.88 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 12 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $2,795,995,623.88 without changing the join key of 10.555 and KY.

What school lunch in Kentucky does not prove

A 10.555 total tagged to Kentucky 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 $2,795,995,623.88 on 12 awards for National School Lunch Program in Kentucky.

Keep both sides of the join: National School Lunch Program and Kentucky, obligations only. Do not annualize $2,795,995,623.88 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 12 as a person or contractor census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a policy story.

Opening the 10.555–Kentucky overlay

The overlay target is the Kentucky × CFDA 10.555 table. Open National School Lunch Program in Kentucky when you want the same $2,795,995,623.88 / 12-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 10.555 drops the Kentucky filter. Kentucky federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Kentucky 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 Kentucky won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 10.555 plus KY. Obligations of $2,795,995,623.88 are not outlays.

Questions

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

USAspending records $2,795,995,623.88 in CFDA 10.555 obligations with Kentucky place of performance on 12 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep National School Lunch Program and Kentucky together when citing $2,795,995,623.88. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 12 awards mean 12 people or contractors?

No. 12 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $233.00 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,795,995,623.88 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 12 awards mean 12 Kentucky school districts?

No. $2,795,995,623.88 is only the 10.555 × Kentucky cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Kentucky program pages. Nationwide 10.555 is not limited to Kentucky. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.555 × KY pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Kentucky 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–Kentucky table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.