Cap tefap admin grts to STS

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry $1.395 million on October 1, 2025, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs) formula grant (CFDA 10.568).

The funding supports administrative costs for storage and distribution of USDA Foods through TEFAP operations in Louisiana. The recipient must make available at least 40 percent of administrative grant funds to emergency feeding organizations or expend such funds on their behalf. The award covers the period October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026, with place of performance in Louisiana.

Under the TEFAP Administrative Costs program, allocations to states are determined by a legislatively-mandated formula weighting each state's relative share of the national poverty-level population (60 percent) and unemployed persons (40 percent). Recipients maintain ongoing federal/state agreements with participating local organizations, which are amended as necessary. Administrative funds flow on an as-needed basis for actual expenditures, with any unobligated amounts returned to the federal government and reallocated according to the formula.