Cap tefap admin grts to STS

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the Arizona Department of Economic Security $1,679,369 on October 1, 2025, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs), CFDA 10.568, a formula grant to support storage and distribution costs for TEFAP food assistance operations through September 30, 2026.

The recipient administers TEFAP funding statewide and passes administrative funds through to local emergency feeding organizations, including food banks, pantries, and soup kitchens that provide food assistance to low-income persons. Place of performance is Arizona.

Four food bank organizations received sub-awards under this grant: Yuma Community Food Bank, Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, United Food Bank, Inc., and ST. Mary's Food Bank Alliance (doing business as Food Care). Each sub-grantee helps supplement the diets of low-income persons by receiving funds to cover storage and distribution costs incurred in providing food assistance through TEFAP.

Under the program formula, TEFAP administrative funds are allocated among states based on relative shares of persons with income below the poverty level (60 percent weight) and unemployed persons (40 percent weight). State agencies must make at least 40 percent of administrative grants available to emergency feeding organizations or expend funds on their behalf. Funds flow through electronic transfer as needed for actual expenditures on a fiscal-year basis, with unused funds returned to the federal government for reallocation.