National School Lunch Program in Tennessee

The 10.555–Tennessee join

CFDA 10.555 is titled NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. Crossed with Tennessee place of performance, obligations sum to $2,990,792,085.38 on 20 awards. The national National School Lunch Program hub includes other states. Tennessee’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,990,792,085.38 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a cafeteria list or a free-and-reduced-price census.

20 awards is a concentrated child-nutrition pattern: NSLP typically posts as a modest number of large assistance instruments to a state. The implied mean of about $149.54 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 $2,990,792,085.38, 20 awards, TN, and 10.555. Correlation is not causation. Twenty NSLP instruments carrying $2,990,792,085.38 is a state-agency pattern, not 20 cafeterias and not 20 districts named in the facts.

School lunch is not SNAP or WIC in this cell

The catalog title names National School Lunch Program. It is not SNAP, WIC, or school-breakfast catalogs (those are different rows). Mixing other catalogs into $2,990,792,085.38 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Tennessee, CFDA 10.555, $2,990,792,085.38, 20 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,990,792,085.38 by 20 yields about $149.54 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 20 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Tennessee geography on the lunch tag

TN is the place-of-performance code. Awards coded to Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, or Mississippi stay outside $2,990,792,085.38 even when a student later moves. A statewide lunch award can still appear as records tagged to Nashville or another in-state address. The code does not convert $2,990,792,085.38 into a county map or a ranking of places as winners or losers.

Tennessee federal spending is the all-program parent. 10.555 is one row on Tennessee programs. $2,990,792,085.38 is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open National School Lunch Program in Tennessee for the filtered table, CFDA 10.555 for 10.555 without a Tennessee filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,990,792,085.38.

Twenty awards under $2.99 billion

$2,990,792,085.38 ÷ 20 is about $149.54 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 20 as a record count. Tennessee SNAP in this slice is a different nutrition catalog; those dollars are not inside the $2,990,792,085.38 lunch cell.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $2,990,792,085.38 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 20 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $2,990,792,085.38 without changing the join key of 10.555 and TN.

What NSLP in Tennessee does not prove

A 10.555 total tagged to Tennessee 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 $2,990,792,085.38 on 20 awards for National School Lunch Program in Tennessee.

Keep both sides of the join: National School Lunch Program and Tennessee, obligations only. Do not annualize $2,990,792,085.38 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 20 as a person or contractor census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a policy story.

Using the school-lunch–Tennessee overlay

The overlay target is the Tennessee × CFDA 10.555 table. Open National School Lunch Program in Tennessee when you want the same $2,990,792,085.38 / 20-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 10.555 drops the Tennessee filter. Tennessee federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Tennessee 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 Tennessee won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 10.555 plus TN. Obligations of $2,990,792,085.38 are not outlays.

Questions

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

USAspending records $2,990,792,085.38 in CFDA 10.555 obligations with Tennessee place of performance on 20 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep National School Lunch Program and Tennessee together when citing $2,990,792,085.38. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 20 awards mean 20 people or contractors?

No. 20 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $149.54 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,990,792,085.38 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 20 awards mean 20 Tennessee school districts?

No. $2,990,792,085.38 is only the 10.555 × Tennessee cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Tennessee program pages. Nationwide 10.555 is not limited to Tennessee. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.555 × TN pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Tennessee 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–Tennessee table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.