National School Lunch Program funding in Texas (CFDA 10.555)
Twelve school-lunch awards carry a $16.6 billion Texas book. USAspending.gov records $16,560,596,298.36 in National School Lunch Program (CFDA 10.555) obligations with Texas place of performance, across 12 awards. Twelve awards against $16.6 billion is a highly concentrated assistance cell: a short row list holding a very large commitment. Implied mean obligation per award is about $1.38 billion. This page is the catalog-program-and-state join, not a cafeteria census, a breakfast-program total, or cash already paid.
Key figures
- CFDA 10.555 in Texas: $16,560,596,298.36 across 12 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $1.38 billion per award on a 12-line book.
- School lunch is not breakfast or CACFP on this page.
- Cite obligations from USAspending.gov; keep both sides of the join.
CFDA 10.555 dollars tagged to Texas
CFDA 10.555 and geography TX meet in this cell. $16,560,596,298.36 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not the program’s national total, not Texas’s entire federal inflow, and not an outlay. CFDA 10.555 is the National School Lunch Program, not School Breakfast and not Child and Adult Care Food. The pair is the only object this page measures.
Twelve awards sit beside $16,560,596,298.36. Twelve awards against $16.6 billion is a highly concentrated assistance cell: a short row list holding a very large commitment. The count can include assistance awards, amendments, and related actions. Treating 12 as a roster of students, patients, veterans, or households would misread award records as people. Unique recipients are unpublished on this packet.
Open National School Lunch Program in Texas for the live overlay, CFDA 10.555 for the program without a state filter, Texas federal spending for every program coded to the state, Texas programs for the state program index, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parent tables into $16,560,596,298.36.
School lunch, not breakfast or CACFP
CFDA 10.555 is the National School Lunch Program, not School Breakfast and not Child and Adult Care Food. Sibling catalog numbers stay on other program pages: School Breakfast Program (10.553) and Child and Adult Care Food Program (10.558) are different catalog pages. Mixing those dollars into $16,560,596,298.36 would invent a roll-up the packet does not publish. CFDA 10.555 is the only program key on this Texas tie.
Dividing $16,560,596,298.36 by 12 awards yields about $1.38 billion per award. That mean is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical benefit check and not a median. A 12-line lunch book can be a few state-level assistance vehicles. Unique districts and meal counts are unpublished. The packet has no fiscal-year split and no de-obligation history.
Texas geography on a school-lunch cell
Texas place of performance can cover Austin, a state agency address, or another tagged location. The packet has no district split. Austin, Houston, or a named education campus share the TX place-of-performance tag inside $16,560,596,298.36. This extract does not publish a city or county split. Naming one campus or agency as the whole Texas book adds a label the facts do not carry.
Place of performance can follow a payee address, in-state administration, or a reporting convention. Awards coded to another state do not enter this sum even if a beneficiary later moved to Texas. The join cannot re-allocate dollars along a household address history. Texas federal spending still includes every other CFDA coded to TX.
Obligations, not outlays, on Texas 10.555
An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $16,560,596,298.36 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as cash already cleared in Texas over-reads the field. 12 remains an award-record count, not a payment count and not a beneficiary roster. Keep the obligation word when you quote CFDA 10.555 in Texas.
What the lunch–Texas pair does not prove
A large school lunch total in Texas does not mean the program caused the state’s economy, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation is not causation. A 12-line lunch book can be a few state-level assistance vehicles. Unique districts and meal counts are unpublished. Keep $16,560,596,298.36 labeled as CFDA 10.555 obligations with Texas place of performance. CFDA 10.555 is the national program hub; Texas programs lists other catalog numbers in the state; All spending ties indexes other pairs.
How to cite CFDA 10.555 in Texas
A clean footnote names CFDA 10.555 (National School Lunch Program), Texas place of performance, $16,560,596,298.36 in obligations, and 12 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Mean dollars per action remain about $1.38 billion. Quote National School Lunch Program in Texas as the live cell, Texas federal spending if you need every program in the state, and CFDA 10.555 if you need the catalog number without the TX filter. Do not per-capita the total; population is unpublished here.
Questions
- How much has CFDA 10.555 obligated in Texas?
- USAspending.gov records $16,560,596,298.36 in obligations for CFDA 10.555 with Texas place of performance, covering 12 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the program–state pair, not an outlay figure and not the program’s national total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
- Why only 12 school-lunch awards for $16.6 billion?
- The extract lists 12 award actions totaling $16,560,596,298.36. A short or long row list can still hold a large dollar total if a few assistance vehicles dominate. Average obligation per award is about $1.38 billion, a ratio, not a typical benefit. Unique recipients are not published on this packet.
- Does this include Texas school breakfast?
- No. CFDA 10.555 is the National School Lunch Program only. School Breakfast sits on 10.553. $16,560,596,298.36 on 12 awards is the Texas place-of-performance cell. Quote lunch and Texas together and keep the obligation label.
- Where are the parent Texas and CFDA 10.555 tables?
- National School Lunch Program in Texas is the live overlay. Texas federal spending shows every program coded to the state. CFDA 10.555 shows the catalog number without a state filter. Texas programs is the state program index. All spending ties lists other pairs.
USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.