How much SNAP funding is obligated in Texas?

USAspending.gov shows $16,910,688,170.81 across 4 awards for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (CFDA 10.551) tagged to Texas. That is an obligation join, not household benefits already issued.

Why does Texas SNAP show only 4 awards?

SNAP federal funding often appears as a few large assistance awards to the state administering agency. This packet counts 4 USAspending actions. It does not count households, EBT transactions, or retailers.

Is this the same as school lunch funding in Texas?

No. School meals use other CFDA numbers. This join is only 10.551, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, with a Texas geography tag.

Where is the overlay for Texas SNAP?

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Texas. Parents are Texas federal spending, Texas programs, and CFDA 10.551. All spending ties lists other program-state pairs.

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding in Texas

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (CFDA 10.551) obligations coded to Texas total $16,910,688,170.81 on USAspending.gov, sitting on 4 awards. Four is the headline oddity: billions of nutrition dollars posted as a handful of assistance actions. The join is USDA’s SNAP Catalog number plus a Texas place-of-performance tag. It is not a count of Texas SNAP households and not a grocery-receipt census. The coarseness of four rows is how SNAP is posted on USAspending, not evidence that Texas issued benefits four times.

Key figures

Texas SNAP (CFDA 10.551): $16,910,688,170.81 on 4 USAspending awards.
Four actions are not four households; the implied mean is about $4,226,672,000 per award.
Place-of-performance follows the award coding, not every redemption.
Cite obligations, not grocery outlays; no fiscal year is in the packet.
The join is 10.551 × TX, not a food-insecurity ranking.

Four awards, not four families

Filter USAspending assistance to SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM and to Texas (TX). Four rows survive. They sum to $16,910,688,170.81. SNAP benefits to households are typically issued through a state agency. The federal-to-state award can appear as one or a few large USAspending actions even while millions of electronic benefit transfers happen off this table.

The implied mean is about $4,226,672,000 per award. That figure is the size of the assistance vehicles in the extract. It is not a monthly allotment and not an average household benefit. The packet has no household count, no participation rate, and no error-rate statistic.

Texas federal spending is every program tagged to TX. CFDA 10.551 is SNAP in every state. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Texas is the intersection. Texas programs lists sibling CFDA cells. All spending ties indexes other joins.

Retailer redemptions and state issuance calendars would each produce a different integer. None of those integers is 4 except by coincidence. Keep the nouns attached: four USAspending award actions, SNAP Catalog 10.551, Texas place of performance.

Texas SNAP sits near Texas SLFRF in dollars and nowhere near it in award count. Two Catalog numbers can both be large without being the same spending stream.

What a SNAP place-of-performance tag can hide

Place-of-performance for 10.551 often follows the state administering agency. A Texas tag says the award was coded to TX, not that every redeemed benefit was spent in a particular county. Benefits issued to a Texas case can be redeemed across state lines; benefits issued elsewhere can be redeemed in Texas. Neither flow is a field in this packet.

Related nutrition Catalog numbers — school meals, WIC, commodity programs — are not 10.551. Adding them to $16,910,688,170.81 would be a different extract. This page keeps SNAP only.

The four-award texture is common for this CFDA in large states. It does not mean Texas posted SNAP ‘efficiently’ or ‘thinly.’ It means the prime file is coarse. Subawards and EBT issuances are not exploded here.

Emergency allotments, if coded to 10.551, would already be inside the four rows. If coded elsewhere, they are outside. This packet does not say which. Do not add a disaster-nutrition story onto $16,910,688,170.81 without a new extract.

Obligations are not groceries purchased

USAspending records obligations on awards. Retail redemptions, USDA settlement with retailers, and state issuance calendars are other ledgers. Quote $16,910,688,170.81 as obligations for CFDA 10.551 in Texas, not as food already bought.

No fiscal year is attached to the packet facts. Do not invent one. Cite USAspending.gov CFDA aggregates by place of performance state.

A restatement that changes 4 to 5 would be a different snapshot. Quote the live overlay when the count matters more than this JSON.

Statewide Texas, not a food-insecurity ranking

This join does not split 4 awards or $16,910,688,170.81 by border county, Gulf Coast, or metro. A local SNAP story needs a different dataset. The extract stays statewide.

Do not rank Texas as hungrier or better-fed from this cell. Participation, poverty, and prices are not facts here. Correlation with other Texas program cells is not causation.

The border, the Gulf, and the Panhandle share one TX tag. Food-price differences across those regions are not a field. This page will not convert $16,910,688,170.81 into a cost-of-living index.

How to quote SNAP obligations in Texas

Quote USAspending.gov: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (CFDA 10.551) obligated $16,910,688,170.81 on 4 awards coded to Texas. Name SNAP and Texas together. Name obligations, not outlays.

Refresh from the overlay Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Texas if the live table moved. This JSON is the snapshot.

What a SNAP citation must include

A complete sentence names Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, CFDA 10.551, Texas, $16,910,688,170.81, 4 awards, USAspending.gov, and obligations. Drop any of those and the claim drifts.

Household participation tables from USDA FNS are a different series. Mixing them with this join without a crosswalk invents a number this packet does not have.

Questions

How much SNAP funding is obligated in Texas?: USAspending.gov shows $16,910,688,170.81 across 4 awards for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (CFDA 10.551) tagged to Texas. That is an obligation join, not household benefits already issued.
Why does Texas SNAP show only 4 awards?: SNAP federal funding often appears as a few large assistance awards to the state administering agency. This packet counts 4 USAspending actions. It does not count households, EBT transactions, or retailers.
Is this the same as school lunch funding in Texas?: No. School meals use other CFDA numbers. This join is only 10.551, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, with a Texas geography tag.
Where is the overlay for Texas SNAP?: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Texas. Parents are Texas federal spending, Texas programs, and CFDA 10.551. All spending ties lists other program-state pairs.

USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.