CNP CIL child and adult care

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded $7.170 million to the Pennsylvania Department of Education on October 1, 2025, under the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CFDA 10.558), a formula grant funding child and adult nutrition services in Pennsylvania through September 30, 2026. The award supports meal reimbursements and cash-in-lieu payments to child care centers, day care homes, and adult care facilities serving eligible children and adults, with place of performance in Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education, operating through its Budget & Fiscal Management Division (Comptroller's Office), administers the award as the state-level recipient under the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The program distributes pass-through funding to approximately 150 sub-recipients—including school districts, recreation commissions, YMCAs, nonprofit child care organizations, for-profit child care centers, intermediate educational units, and community action agencies—that operate as CACFP sponsors. Sub-recipients provide meals or, where facilities lack capacity to receive and store USDA commodities, receive USDA-set cash reimbursement per meal served. Named sub-recipients include Penn Hills School District, Clearfield County League On Social Services Inc., Community Connections For Children Inc., Reading Recreation Commission, Prodigy Preparatory Inc., Chester County Intermediate Unit 24, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, and over 100 additional organizations spanning early childhood education, youth programming, and community services across Pennsylvania and select cross-state operations.