Cap tefap admin grts to STS

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the Kentucky Department of Agriculture $1,331,994 on October 1, 2025 under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs), CFDA 10.568, a formula grant providing funding to state agencies for storage and distribution costs of USDA Foods.

The award funds administrative activities supporting TEFAP operations in Kentucky through September 30, 2026. Work is performed in Kentucky. The recipient passed through sub-awards to three emergency feeding organizations: Gods Pantry Food Bank Inc. (doing business as Americas Second Harvest), Feeding America, Kentucky's Heartland, Inc., and Dare To Care, Inc. (doing business as Dare To Care Food Bank). Each sub-grantee stores, transports, and distributes USDA commodities to low-income populations.

Under the federal program's formula-allocation structure, Kentucky's administrative grant is calculated using a legislatively-mandated formula weighting the state's relative share of persons with income below the poverty level (60 percent) and unemployed persons (40 percent). State law requires that at least 40 percent of administrative funds be made available to emergency feeding organizations or expended on their behalf. Records accounting for receipts and dispersals must be retained for three years following the close of the fiscal year or until any outstanding audit, claim, or litigation is settled.