National School Lunch Program obligations in New Jersey

How 10.555 and New Jersey meet

The $3,524,826,074 figure is the obligation sum on awards that carry both CFDA 10.555 (NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM) and New Jersey as place of performance. The national lunch-program hub includes every state. The New Jersey spending hub includes every CFDA. Neither parent equals this cell.

Twelve awards is a thin count for a multi-billion-dollar nutrition stream. State administering agencies often receive a small number of large assistance awards and then reimburse local operators. The join does not identify those operators, Newark versus South Jersey splits, or free-meal shares.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $3,524,826,074 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 10.555 and NJ. 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 New Jersey against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Twelve awards totaling $3,524,826,074 look sparse next to a voucher catalog with thousands of rows, but nutrition reimbursements often post that way. The about $293.74 million mean is a state-scale reimbursement stream, not a per-meal price and not a typical school’s lunch account.

Lunch catalog, not the whole child-nutrition budget

Breakfast, summer meals, and child-care food programs use other CFDA numbers. Combining them with $3,524,826,074 would invent a total the facts do not support. SNAP and WIC are different catalogs as well.

Packet facts: New Jersey, CFDA 10.555, $3,524,826,074, 12 awards. Commodity value, administrative expense, and school names are absent. The title names the program, not a cafeteria audit.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $3,524,826,074, 12 awards, CFDA 10.555, program title National School Lunch Program, and geography NJ/New Jersey. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 12 awards into $3,524,826,074 is about $293.74 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

New Jersey also has transit, voucher, CHIP, waiver, and special-education ties in this portfolio. None of those dollars belong in $3,524,826,074. CFDA 10.555 × NJ is the only pair reported here.

New Jersey as a USAspending tag

NJ is the place-of-performance code. An award billed to Trenton can cover meals statewide while still appearing as twelve records. Awards coded to New York or Pennsylvania stay outside $3,524,826,074 even when students live in cross-border districts.

New Jersey federal spending is the all-program parent. CFDA 10.555 is one row on the New Jersey programs list. $3.52 billion is not the state’s entire federal footprint.

Place of performance NJ 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 $3,524,826,074 into a county map. Awards with a different state code are outside this cell even if people, patients, or riders cross the border.

A $293.7 million mean on 12 instruments

$3,524,826,074 ÷ 12 is about $293.7 million per award. That average is a state-scale reimbursement figure, not a typical school’s lunch account and not a per-meal price. With n = 12, a few large instruments dominate. The aggregate is net obligations supplied in the facts.

Treat 12 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 12 finished projects. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; the $3,524,826,074 figure is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 12 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections.

Using the National School Lunch Program–New Jersey overlay

The overlay target for this tie is the New Jersey × CFDA 10.555 table. Open that path when you want the same $3,524,826,074 / 12-award cell in the site’s data chrome. The national program page for CFDA 10.555 drops the New Jersey filter. The New Jersey spending hub drops the CFDA filter. The New Jersey 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 New Jersey “won” or “lost” federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. Correlation is not causation. The headline number remains $3,524,826,074 on 12 awards, from USAspending.gov, for National School Lunch Program in New Jersey.

Caveats

A large 10.555 total tagged to New Jersey does not measure nutrition outcomes, and it does not equal cash already spent. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.

See National School Lunch Program in New Jersey, CFDA 10.555, New Jersey federal spending, New Jersey programs, and All spending ties.

Questions

How much National School Lunch Program funding is obligated in New Jersey?

USAspending records $3,524,826,074 in CFDA 10.555 obligations with New Jersey place of performance across 12 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not every nutrition CFDA.

Why so few awards?

The facts show 12 awards totaling $3,524,826,074. Statewide lunch catalogs often post a small number of large awards to a state agency. Meal counts are not in the packet facts.

Is this New Jersey’s total federal spending?

No. This join filters CFDA 10.555 only. Other programs appear on the New Jersey programs list and the statewide hub.

Are obligations the same as money spent on lunches?

No. Obligations are commitments. The $3,524,826,074 figure is not an outlay and not a per-meal expenditure.