Cap tefap admin grts to STS

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the Illinois Department of Human Services $3,105,269 on October 1, 2025, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs) formula grant (CFDA 10.568), with performance through September 30, 2026. The award funds storage and distribution costs for TEFAP USDA Foods in Illinois.

The Illinois Department of Human Services passes funding to five food bank sub-recipients: Central Illinois Foodbank Inc., Greater Chicago Food Depository, Northern Illinois Food Bank, River Bend Food Bank, and Eastern Illinois Foodbank, along with St. Louis Area Food Bank Inc. and Tri State Food Bank Inc. Sub-awards were issued between August and December 2025 to support commodity supplemental food program and WIC special supplemental nutrition program distribution and administration across their service areas, which collectively span 21 counties in central Illinois, 13 counties in northern Illinois, 23 counties in eastern Iowa and western Illinois, and 26 counties across Missouri and Illinois.

The formula allocation is based on each state's relative share of the national poverty population (60 percent weight) and unemployed persons (40 percent weight). TEFAP administrative funds must be made available to emergency feeding organizations or expended on their behalf at a minimum of 40 percent of the allocation. Place of performance is Illinois.