Cap tefap admin grts to STS

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded $1.170286 million to the State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services 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. The funding supports storage and distribution costs incurred by TEFAP to issue USDA Foods in Wisconsin.

The State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services distributes TEFAP administrative funds to emergency feeding organizations and designated local distributing agencies across the state. Sub-recipients include Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Racine-Kenosha Community Action Agency, Feed My People Inc., Couleecap Inc., Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program Inc., Central Wisconsin Community Action, Lakeshore Cap Inc. of Wisconsin, Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc., Western Dairyland Economic Opportunity Council Inc., Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin Inc., Northwest Wisconsin Community Services Agency Inc., Wisconsin Community Action Program Association Incorporated (Wiscap), Hunger Task Force, Advocap Inc., Community Action Coalition For South Central Wisconsin Inc., and West Central Wisconsin Community Action Agency Inc. The TEFAP formula allocation to states is based on a legislatively-mandated calculation: sixty percent of each state's relative share of the national number of persons with income below the poverty level and forty percent of unemployed persons. States must make at least forty percent of administrative grant funds available to emergency feeding organizations or expend such funds on their behalf. This is a formula grant assistance type.