Cap tefap admin grts to STS

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services $396,878 on October 1, 2025, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs), CFDA 10.568, a formula grant funding storage and distribution costs for TEFAP.

The award runs through September 30, 2026, and covers performance in Nebraska. The program allocates administrative funding to state agencies based on a legislatively-mandated formula weighting 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 funds available to emergency feeding organizations or expend such funds on their behalf.

Nebraska DHHS passed through funding to two sub-recipients. Food Bank of Lincoln Inc., awarded a sub-grant on March 25, 2026, gathers, stores, and redistributes surplus food to over 180 nonprofit programs serving 16 counties in Southeast Nebraska, providing recipient certification, food distribution, nutritional education, and storage and distribution of USDA commodities to eligible recipients. Foodbank For The Heartland, doing business as Nebraska Food Bank, received a sub-award on March 5, 2026, and works with over 225 pantries, shelters, and other nonprofits to distribute USDA commodities and other food sources to individuals and families struggling with hunger in Nebraska and western Iowa.