Snap tefap - grants to states

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction $167,354 on October 1, 2025, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs) formula grant to support storage and distribution costs for TEFAP foods through September 30, 2026.

The funding finances administrative operations for the state's Emergency Food Assistance Program, with North Dakota distributing sub-awards to local organizations participating in TEFAP. The Grand Forks Public School District Building Authority and Great Plains Food Bank received sub-awards to administer TEFAP conversion programming and food distribution activities for the same performance period. Under federal/state agreement, at minimum 40 percent of the state's administrative grant must be made available to emergency feeding organizations or expended on their behalf. The allocation to North Dakota was determined by a legislatively-mandated formula weighting the state's relative share of the national population below the poverty level (60 percent) and unemployed persons (40 percent). Performance occurs in North Dakota.