Federal Grant Award Summary

The Maryland Department of Human Services received $955,580 in formula grant funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) Administrative Costs program (CFDA 10.568), effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. This award supports administrative, storage, and distribution costs necessary to operate the state's emergency food assistance network, which provides nutrition support to low-income populations across Maryland.

Under the congressionally mandated allocation formula based on poverty and unemployment rates, the state agency must make a minimum of 40 percent of these administrative funds available to emergency feeding organizations such as food banks, food pantries, and soup kitchens. Funds are distributed on an as-needed basis for actual expenditures, with any unused allocations returned to the federal government for reallocation to other states. This formula grant represents Maryland's ongoing participation in the federal-state agreement governing TEFAP implementation and reflects the state's proportional share of the national poverty and unemployment metrics used to distribute annual appropriations.