National School Lunch Program obligations in Virginia

What the 10.555–Virginia join is

CFDA 10.555 is titled NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. Crossed with Virginia place of performance, obligations sum to $3,136,479,863.75 on 22 awards. The national school-lunch hub includes other states. Virginia’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $3,136,479,863.75 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of lunches served in Northern Virginia, Richmond, or Hampton Roads.

Twenty-two awards is a concentrated nutrition-formula book, similar in row count to North Carolina’s 10.555 cell. 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 VDOE, list districts, or count meals. Packet facts stop at $3,136,479,863.75, 22 awards, VA, and 10.555.

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 $3,136,479,863.75 would invent a broader nutrition total than this cell contains. Facts available: Virginia, CFDA 10.555, $3,136,479,863.75, 22 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 $3,136,479,863.75 by 22 yields about $142.57 million per award—a statewide pass-through scale, not a typical cafeteria reimbursement. Unique recipients are unpublished. 22 is not a count of schools.

Virginia geography on the school-lunch tag

VA is the place-of-performance code. An NSLP award can still appear as records tagged to Richmond, Fairfax, or another in-state address. Awards coded to Maryland, North Carolina, or the District of Columbia stay outside $3,136,479,863.75 even when a student lives in a cross-border metro. The code does not convert $3.14 billion into a district map.

Virginia federal spending is the all-program parent. 10.555 is one row on Virginia programs. $3.14 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open National School Lunch Program in Virginia for the filtered table, CFDA 10.555 for 10.555 without a Virginia filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,136,479,863.75.

Reading 22 awards under $3.14 billion

$3,136,479,863.75 ÷ 22 is about $142.57 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 22 as a record count, not as 22 finished meal programs.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $3,136,479,863.75 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 22 rows are continuations, corrections, or school-year instruments. Later ingests can restate $3,136,479,863.75 without changing the join key of 10.555 and VA.

What the school-lunch–Virginia pair does not prove

A large 10.555 total tagged to Virginia 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 $3,136,479,863.75 on 22 awards for the National School Lunch Program in Virginia.

Keep both sides of the join: National School Lunch Program and Virginia, obligations only. Do not annualize $3,136,479,863.75 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 22 as a school census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a hunger story.

Using the 10.555–Virginia overlay

The overlay target is the Virginia × CFDA 10.555 table. Open National School Lunch Program in Virginia when you want the same $3,136,479,863.75 / 22-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 10.555 drops the Virginia filter. Virginia federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Virginia 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 Virginia won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 10.555 plus VA. Obligations of $3,136,479,863.75 are not outlays.

Questions

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

USAspending records $3,136,479,863.75 in CFDA 10.555 obligations with Virginia place of performance on 22 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not SNAP. Keep National School Lunch Program and Virginia together when citing $3,136,479,863.75.

Why are there only 22 school-lunch awards?

NSLP often posts as a small number of large assistance instruments to a state agency. The facts show 22 awards totaling $3,136,479,863.75. The mean is about $142.57 million. District names are unpublished.

Is this Virginia’s total USDA nutrition spending?

No. This join is CFDA 10.555 only. SNAP and other nutrition catalogs appear on separate Virginia program pages. Nationwide 10.555 is not limited to Virginia. Obligations of $3,136,479,863.75 are not outlays.

Does twenty-two awards mean twenty-two school districts?

22 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 × VA pair.