Cap tefap admin grts to STS

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the South Dakota Department of Education $147,424 on October 1, 2025, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs), CFDA 10.568, to support storage and distribution costs for TEFAP commodity foods in South Dakota through September 30, 2026.

The award funds administrative expenses incurred by State agencies and local organizations participating in TEFAP. Under federal-State agreement, South Dakota must make at least 40 percent of administrative grant funds available to emergency feeding organizations or expend such funds on their behalf. The South Dakota Department of Education, as the State distributing agency, passes funds to local emergency feeding organizations through sub-awards. Feeding South Dakota (Sioux Falls Food Bank) received a sub-award effective October 6, 2025, to cover TEFAP storage and distribution claims for the fiscal year through September 2026. The allocation to South Dakota derives from a legislatively mandated formula weighing the State's relative share of the national population with income below the poverty level (60 percent weight) and unemployed persons (40 percent weight).