Snap tefap - grants to states

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the Georgia Department of Human Services $1.5 million on October 1, 2025, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs), CFDA 10.568, to fund storage and distribution costs for USDA foods delivered through the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) to Georgia residents through September 30, 2027.

The state agency passed the funding through to eight sub-recipients—Atlanta Community Food Bank, Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc., Food Bank Of Northeast Georgia Inc., Second Harvest Of South Georgia Inc., Middle Georgia Community Food Bank Inc., America's Second Harvest Of Coastal Georgia Inc., Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc., and Feeding The Valley Food Bank—all nonprofit food banks operating across Georgia and neighboring regions. Each sub-recipient stores and distributes USDA commodities to low-income residents and food-insecure populations within their service areas. Under the TEFAP formula allocation methodology, Georgia's share is calculated on the basis of relative poverty (60 percent weight) and unemployment (40 percent weight). The state was required to make at least 40 percent of the administrative grant available to emergency feeding organizations or expend funds on their behalf. Sub-awards to the food banks were amended between April 1 and April 17, 2026, all carrying the identical scope of TEFAP storage and distribution services.