WIC admin expenses

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the Ohio Department of Health $61.733 million on October 1, 2025, under the WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (CFDA 10.557) to support administrative expenses for WIC program operations in Ohio through September 30, 2026. The award is a formula grant.

The Ohio Department of Health distributes these funds to 25 sub-recipients—county health departments, local government health agencies, non-profit community health centers, and community action organizations—operating across Ohio's 88 counties to administer WIC services serving approximately 180,000 Ohioans monthly. Sub-recipients provide nutrition education and supplemental food packages to income-eligible pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age five determined to be at nutritional risk. Named sub-recipients include Tuscarawas General Health District, Meigs County Health Department, Medina County Health Department, Hopewell Health Centers Inc., Summit County Health District, Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital, Preble County General Health District, City of Canton Department of Community Development, Seneca County Health Department, County of Ottawa, Sandusky County Health Department, Community Action Organization of Scioto County, Portage County Health Department, Community Action Committee of Pike County, Shelby County Sidney Health Department, Paulding County Health Department, Ross County Health District, Zanesville Health Department, Mansfield Ontario Richland County Health Department, Monroe County Commissioners, Miami County Health District, Noble County Health Department, and Public Health Dayton and Montgomery County.

Place of performance is Ohio.