SNAP administrative matching grants in Tennessee

What this Tennessee × 10.561 join is

This page keeps only USAspending rows that carry both keys: CFDA 10.561 and Tennessee as place of performance. $560,268,416.76 is the obligation sum on that intersection. The nationwide CFDA 10.561 program page includes every state. The Tennessee federal spending hub includes every CFDA coded to TN. Neither parent is this cell. The overlay State Administrative Matching Grants For The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Tennessee is the table view of the same 28 awards.

CFDA 10.561 is titled STATE ADMINISTRATIVE MATCHING GRANTS FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. The catalog funds state administrative costs that match federal SNAP rules, not the monthly benefit payments themselves. This packet does not publish a separate SNAP issuance CFDA, a caseload, or a per-recipient dollar. Treating $560,268,416.76 as Tennessee’s entire nutrition budget leaves the definition of the join.

Twenty-eight awards is a concentrated count for more than half a billion dollars. Administrative matching often posts as a modest number of large assistance instruments to a state agency rather than thousands of store-level invoices. The extract still does not name those recipients, list award IDs, or split the 28 rows by fiscal year. Those fields are absent from the packet facts. Correlation is not causation: a large admin-matching total does not prove that SNAP participation rose or fell because of this cell.

How to read 28 awards against $560 million

The implied mean is about $20,009,586 ($560,268,416.76 ÷ 28). That quotient is a blend of whatever instruments sit in the extract, including modifications if USAspending nets them into the same award records. It is not a median, not a typical county office budget, and not a cost per SNAP household. A few large statewide grants can dominate the mean while smaller amendments still count toward the 28.

Cite both columns together. A high dollar with a low award count is a signature of formula-style administrative assistance, not evidence of a single contract. SpendingVault does not recast the mean as an invoice. The source is USAspending.gov; the facts on this page are state TN, CFDA 10.561, program name State Administrative Matching Grants For The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, $560,268,416.76 in obligations, and 28 awards.

Tennessee geography versus statewide spending

Place of performance Tennessee means USAspending tagged the award to TN. It does not itemize Nashville versus rural counties, and it does not prove that every subaward stayed in-state. Awards tagged to other states sit outside this cell even if Tennessee agencies later received transfers. The Tennessee programs index lists other CFDA lines with the same geography tag; $560,268,416.76 is one line in that stack, not the state’s complete federal footprint. A reader who wants the full Tennessee obligation stack should start at the statewide hub and treat 10.561 as one row.

FEC contribution files do not finance this USAspending cell. Campaign-finance geography and federal award geography are different datasets even when both mention Tennessee. This tie does not rank the state against other SNAP admin cells; no other-state totals appear in the packet.

Obligations are not SNAP outlays

The $560,268,416.76 figure is an obligation sum. Cash drawn against administrative matching grants can trail the obligation, and outlays are a different USAspending series. This page does not publish a 10.561-in-Tennessee outlay total. Mixing EBT issuance, retailer redemption, or error-rate statistics with this award file leaves the series the aggregate actually reports.

Cite the join as CFDA 10.561 × Tennessee, $560,268,416.76, 28 awards, obligations only.

Tables behind the pair

Open State Administrative Matching Grants For The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Tennessee for the overlay rows that still sum toward $560,268,416.76 on 28 awards. CFDA 10.561 is the national catalog parent. Tennessee federal spending and Tennessee programs are the statewide parents. All spending ties lists other program–place pairs built the same way.

None of those links convert the cell into a SNAP caseload, a grocery-benefit total, or an outlay this packet omits.

Questions

How much SNAP administrative matching funding is in Tennessee?

USAspending.gov shows $560,268,416.76 in CFDA 10.561 obligations coded to Tennessee across 28 awards. The join uses the program number and TN place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays, and it is administrative matching—not a SNAP household benefit ledger.

Why are there only 28 awards for $560 million?

Administrative matching often posts as a modest set of large state-agency awards. The extract counts 28 records tagged to CFDA 10.561 and Tennessee. Dividing $560,268,416.76 by 28 yields about $20,009,586 per award. That mean is a blend, not a typical county invoice, and the packet does not name recipients.

Is $560 million Tennessee’s full federal nutrition spending?

No. $560,268,416.76 is only the CFDA 10.561 cell with Tennessee place of performance. Other programs sit on the Tennessee programs index. Nationwide CFDA 10.561 includes every state, so it is not this intersection. SNAP household benefit issuance is a different catalog line and is not in these facts.

Do these obligations equal cash spent on SNAP administration?

No. $560,268,416.76 is an obligation sum from USAspending.gov. Outlays are a different series. The packet does not publish a Tennessee 10.561 outlay total or identify the 28 award recipients by name. Cite the figure as a commitment aggregate, not as cash drawn.