Cap tefap admin grts to STS

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded $1.729 million to the Tennessee Department of Agriculture Division of Animal Industries on October 1, 2025, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs), CFDA 10.568, a formula grant supporting storage and distribution costs for TEFAP operations through September 30, 2026.

The recipient serves as Tennessee's designated state distributing agency, administering emergency food assistance to low-income persons and allocating at least 40 percent of administrative funds to emergency feeding organizations or expending such funds on their behalf. The funding supports ongoing federal–state agreement operations in Tennessee.

The Emergency Food Assistance Program allocates administrative resources among participating states using a legislatively-mandated formula weighted 60 percent to each state's relative share of the national poverty population and 40 percent to unemployment. Participating state agencies receive funds through electronic transfer as needed for actual expenditures on a fiscal year basis; unused allocations revert to the federal government for reallocation under the formula.