Cap tefap admin grts to STS

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the Department of Human Services Colorado $1,290,654 on October 1, 2025, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs) formula grant to support storage and distribution costs for TEFAP food assistance in Colorado through September 30, 2026.

The award funds administrative operations enabling the state agency to manage TEFAP food distribution to low-income persons across Colorado. The Emergency Food Assistance Program (CFDA 10.568) allocates administrative funding to state agencies based on a formula weighting each state's relative share of persons below the poverty level at 60 percent and unemployed persons at 40 percent. State agencies must make at least 40 percent of administrative grant funds available to emergency feeding organizations or expend such funds on their behalf. Funds transfer via electronic transfer as needed for actual expenditures and are returned to the federal government if unused, then reallocated according to the statutory formula.

The Department of Human Services Colorado passed through funding to four sub-recipients delivering emergency food distribution services. Food Bank Of The Rockies Inc. received two sub-awards: one awarded March 26, 2026, for TEFAP emergency food distribution, and a second awarded August 26, 2026, adding $170,000 for Farm to Food Bank activities and $24,628 for TEFAP reallocated funds. Care & Share, Inc. and Weld Food Bank each received sub-awards on March 26, 2026, for TEFAP emergency food distribution to food bank clients. All sub-recipients operate as nonprofit food distribution organizations serving Colorado communities.