Cap tefap admin grts to STS

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the Alabama State Department of Education $1.245 million on October 1, 2025, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs), CFDA 10.568, with final completion on September 30, 2026. This formula grant funds storage and distribution costs for the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) in Alabama. The award is structured as a formula allocation based on each state's relative share of the national population below the poverty level (60 percent weight) and unemployed persons (40 percent weight). Alabama must make at least 40 percent of these administrative funds available to emergency feeding organizations or expend funds on their behalf. ALSDE functions as a state-level pass-through administrator, distributing TEFAP administrative funding to local emergency feeding organizations and food banks that hold federal/state agreements with the state agency. Funds are provided through electronic transfer as needed for actual expenditures on a fiscal year basis; any unobligated amounts are returned to the federal government and reallocated according to the legislatively mandated formula.