Cap tefap admin grts to STS

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the Michigan Department of Education $2.769 million on October 1, 2025, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs), CFDA 10.568, for the period of performance October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026, with place of performance in Michigan.

The program provides funding for storage and distribution costs incurred by State agencies and local organizations administering The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP). Administrative funds are allocated to States through a formula based on each State's relative share of persons with income below the poverty level (60 percent) and unemployed persons (40 percent). States must make at least 40 percent of administrative grant funds available to emergency feeding organizations or expend such funds on their behalf. Funds are provided through electronic transfer as needed for actual expenditures on a fiscal year basis; unused funds are returned to the federal government and reallocated according to formula.

The Michigan Department of Education passed through sub-awards to eleven sub-recipients to support USDA programs across Michigan: Macomb County, Saginaw County Community Action Committee, Samaritas (Lutheran Social Services of Michigan), Food Gatherers, Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc., Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc., Southwest Michigan Community Action Agency, Northwest Michigan Community Action Agency Inc., Genesee County, Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency, and Area Community Services Employment & Training Council. The sub-awards were obligated between December 15, 2025, and January 9, 2026.