Cap tefap admin grts to STS

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the Georgia Department of Human Services $2.432 million on October 1, 2025, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs), CFDA 10.568, for the period of performance October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026.

The recipient will provide storage and distribution services for USDA foods delivered through the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) to low-income residents of Georgia. The Emergency Food Assistance Program allocates administrative funding to state agencies on a legislatively mandated formula based on each state's relative share of persons with income below the poverty level (60 percent) and unemployed persons (40 percent). State agencies must make at least 40 percent of administrative grant funds available to emergency feeding organizations.

The Georgia Department of Human Services passed through the award to eight sub-recipients, all non-profit food banks operating across Georgia: Food Bank Of Northeast Georgia, Inc.; Feeding The Valley, Inc.; Chattanooga Area Food Bank, Inc.; Atlanta Community Food Bank; Golden Harvest Food Bank, Inc.; Middle Georgia Community Food Bank, Inc.; America's Second Harvest Of Coastal Georgia, Inc.; and Second Harvest Of South Georgia, Inc. Each sub-recipient provides storage and distribution services for USDA foods to Georgia residents under TEFAP during the same performance period. Sub-awards were issued in late August 2025, with amendments processed in late February and early March 2026.