National School Lunch Program obligations in Minnesota

School lunch catalog meeting Minnesota

CFDA 10.555 is titled NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. Filtered to Minnesota place of performance, obligations sum to $3,576,641,345.06 on 14 awards. The national 10.555 hub includes every state. Minnesota’s spending hub includes every program. This tie is only the overlap.

Nutrition assistance often posts a small number of large awards to a state agency that then reimburses districts. The join does not list those districts, the number of lunches served, or free-versus-reduced splits. Packet facts stop at dollars, award count, state, and CFDA.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $3,576,641,345.06 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 10.555 and MN. The overlay table at the program-in-state path is the same cell rendered as a page; this narrative is the join explained in prose. Nothing here ranks Minnesota against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Fourteen awards totaling $3,576,641,345.06 is how statewide nutrition often appears in USAspending: a state agency receives large assistance awards and reimburses schools. The about $255.47 million mean is not a cafeteria budget. Meal counts, free/reduced shares, and district names are absent from the facts.

CFDA 10.555 is not every USDA nutrition line

School breakfast, child and adult care food, and summer food service use other CFDA numbers. Folding those into $3,576,641,345.06 would invent a broader child-nutrition total than this cell contains. Crop insurance and other Minnesota USDA catalogs are likewise separate rows.

Facts on this page: Minnesota, CFDA 10.555, $3,576,641,345.06, 14 awards. Commodity deliveries, administrative-expense splits, and school names are not in the facts. The catalog title describes the program family, not a cafeteria ledger.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $3,576,641,345.06, 14 awards, CFDA 10.555, program title National School Lunch Program, and geography MN/Minnesota. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 14 awards into $3,576,641,345.06 is about $255.47 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

USDA nutrition is a family. Breakfast, summer meals, and child-care food sit on other numbers. $3,576,641,345.06 is lunch (10.555) × Minnesota. Crop insurance in Minnesota is a different USDA catalog with its own tie.

Minnesota as a geography code

MN is the USAspending place-of-performance tag. An award billed to a state education agency in St. Paul can cover meals statewide while still appearing as 14 records. Awards coded to Wisconsin or North Dakota stay outside $3,576,641,345.06.

Minnesota federal spending is the all-program parent. CFDA 10.555 is one row on the Minnesota programs list. $3.58 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint.

Place of performance MN is a two-letter code in the award file. It can mark a state capital, a campus, a housing authority, a transit agency, or a default statewide tag. It does not prove where every subcontract ran, and it does not convert $3,576,641,345.06 into a county map. Awards with a different state code are outside this cell even if people, patients, or riders cross the border.

Fourteen awards and a $255 million mean

$3,576,641,345.06 ÷ 14 is about $255.5 million per award. With n = 14, the average is an agency-scale reimbursement stream, not a typical school’s annual lunch budget and not a per-student figure. The aggregate reports net obligations; downward modifications in the source file, if any, are already netted into the total.

Treat 14 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 14 finished projects. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; the $3,576,641,345.06 figure is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 14 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections.

Using the National School Lunch Program–Minnesota overlay

The overlay target for this tie is the Minnesota × CFDA 10.555 table. Open that path when you want the same $3,576,641,345.06 / 14-award cell in the site’s data chrome. The national program page for CFDA 10.555 drops the Minnesota filter. The Minnesota spending hub drops the CFDA filter. The Minnesota programs index lists other catalogs beside National School Lunch Program. All spending ties is the directory of 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 Minnesota “won” or “lost” federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. Correlation is not causation. The headline number remains $3,576,641,345.06 on 14 awards, from USAspending.gov, for National School Lunch Program in Minnesota.

What the pair cannot claim

A large school-lunch CFDA total in Minnesota does not measure meal quality, and it does not equal cash already spent. FEC filings do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.

See National School Lunch Program in Minnesota for the overlay, CFDA 10.555 for the national catalog, Minnesota federal spending and Minnesota programs for parent tables, and All spending ties for other pairs.

Questions

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

USAspending records $3,576,641,345.06 in CFDA 10.555 obligations with Minnesota place of performance across 14 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not an outlay and not every child-nutrition CFDA.

Why are there only 14 awards?

The facts show 14 awards totaling $3,576,641,345.06. Statewide nutrition catalogs often post a few large awards to a state agency. District-level meal counts are not in the packet facts.

Is this all USDA spending in Minnesota?

No. This join is CFDA 10.555 only. Other USDA catalogs appear on separate Minnesota program pages.

Does place of performance mean every lunch was served in Minnesota?

Place of performance is a USAspending geography tag (MN). The $3,576,641,345.06 figure is obligations for the pair, not a proof of every subcontract location.