National School Lunch Program obligations in North Carolina

What the 10.555–North Carolina join is

CFDA 10.555 is titled NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. Crossed with North Carolina place of performance, obligations sum to $3,279,474,150.85 on 20 awards. The national school-lunch hub includes other states. North Carolina’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $3,279,474,150.85 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of lunches served in Charlotte, Raleigh, or the mountains.

Twenty awards is a concentrated nutrition-formula book: NSLP often posts as a small number of large instruments to a state agency that then reimburses school food authorities. The join does not name DPI, list districts, or count meals. Packet facts stop at $3,279,474,150.85, 20 awards, NC, and 10.555. North Carolina SNAP (10.551) is a different nutrition catalog.

10.555 is not SNAP or school breakfast as a roll-up

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (CFDA 10.551) and the School Breakfast Program are different USDA catalogs. Mixing those dollars into $3,279,474,150.85 would invent a broader nutrition total than this cell contains. Facts available: North Carolina, CFDA 10.555, $3,279,474,150.85, 20 awards. Meal counts and free/reduced-price flags are not in the facts.

The catalog title names National School Lunch Program, not a ranking of district need. Dividing $3,279,474,150.85 by 20 yields about $163.97 million per award—a statewide pass-through scale, not a typical cafeteria reimbursement. Unique recipients are unpublished. 20 is not a count of schools.

North Carolina geography on the school-lunch tag

NC is the place-of-performance code. An NSLP award can still appear as records tagged to Raleigh, Charlotte, or another in-state address. Awards coded to South Carolina, Virginia, or Tennessee stay outside $3,279,474,150.85 even when a student lives in a cross-border metro. The code does not convert $3.28 billion into a district map.

North Carolina federal spending is the all-program parent. 10.555 is one row on North Carolina programs. $3.28 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open National School Lunch Program in North Carolina for the filtered table, CFDA 10.555 for 10.555 without a North Carolina filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,279,474,150.85.

Reading 20 awards under $3.28 billion

$3,279,474,150.85 ÷ 20 is about $163.97 million per award. That average is a state-pass-through scale, not a typical meal reimbursement and not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 20 as a record count, not as 20 finished meal programs.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $3,279,474,150.85 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 20 rows are continuations, corrections, or school-year instruments. Later ingests can restate $3,279,474,150.85 without changing the join key of 10.555 and NC.

What the school-lunch–North Carolina pair does not prove

A large 10.555 total tagged to North Carolina does not measure whether meals were served, and it does not equal nutrition outcomes. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $3,279,474,150.85 on 20 awards for the National School Lunch Program in North Carolina.

Keep both sides of the join: National School Lunch Program and North Carolina, obligations only. Do not annualize $3,279,474,150.85 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 20 as a school census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a hunger story.

Using the 10.555–North Carolina overlay

The overlay target is the North Carolina × CFDA 10.555 table. Open National School Lunch Program in North Carolina when you want the same $3,279,474,150.85 / 20-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 10.555 drops the North Carolina filter. North Carolina federal spending drops the CFDA filter. North Carolina programs lists other catalogs beside NSLP. 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 North Carolina won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 10.555 plus NC. Obligations of $3,279,474,150.85 are not outlays.

Questions

How much National School Lunch Program funding is obligated in North Carolina?

USAspending records $3,279,474,150.85 in CFDA 10.555 obligations with North Carolina place of performance on 20 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not SNAP. Keep National School Lunch Program and North Carolina together when citing $3,279,474,150.85.

Why are there only 20 school-lunch awards?

NSLP often posts as a small number of large assistance instruments to a state agency. The facts show 20 awards totaling $3,279,474,150.85. The mean is about $163.97 million. District names are unpublished.

Is this North Carolina’s total USDA nutrition spending?

No. This join is CFDA 10.555 only. SNAP and other nutrition catalogs appear on separate North Carolina program pages. Nationwide 10.555 is not limited to North Carolina. Obligations of $3,279,474,150.85 are not outlays.

Does twenty awards mean twenty school districts?

20 is an award-record count, not a district census. A state agency can be the awardee even when many SFAs receive reimbursements. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.555 × NC pair.