2026 tanf

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded $782.114 million to the State of Wisconsin Department of Children and Families on October 1, 2025, for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, with performance through September 30, 2026. The assistance type is a block grant, funded under CFDA 93.558.

TANF supports needy families with children through job preparation, work promotion, marriage support, and prevention of out-of-wedlock pregnancies. The award obligates funds for a period of performance spanning October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. Place of performance is Wisconsin.

The recipient, the State of Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, administers the award as the prime grantee and passes funding through to sub-recipients across Wisconsin. Sub-recipients deliver services including family home visiting programs (Children's Service Society of Wisconsin, Easter Seals Southeast Wisconsin, County of Adams, County of Kenosha, City of Milwaukee Health Department, Racine County, Family Resource Center St. Croix Valley, Next Door Foundation, and others), child welfare county contracts (all Wisconsin counties), crisis nursery services (La Causa Inc.), prevention and intervention programming (Wellpoint Care Network, Community Advocates Inc., Families and Schools Together Inc., Running Rebels Community Organization, Employ Milwaukee, and others), and community building initiatives (Wisconsin Community Services Inc.).

Tribal recipients under State-Tribe Family Services contracts include the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, Forest County Potawatomi Community, Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, Oneida Nation, Sokaogan Chippewa Community, and Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, delivering child welfare and child care services to tribal members and reservation residents.