Snap tefap - grants to states

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded $184,106 to the Education & Early Development Alaska Department on October 1, 2025, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs), CFDA 10.568, a formula grant designed to fund storage and distribution costs for The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) USDA Foods.

The award supports administrative operations in Alaska through the period ending September 30, 2026. State agencies receiving these administrative funds must allocate at least 40 percent to emergency feeding organizations or expend such funds on their behalf. Allocations are determined by a legislatively mandated formula based on each state's relative share of the national population below the poverty level (60 percent weighting) and unemployed persons (40 percent weighting).

The Education & Early Development Alaska Department passed funding through to Food Bank of Alaska, which provides commodity supplemental foods, holiday food distributions, and mobile food pantry programs serving Alaska Native and American Indian households throughout the Mat-Su Valley, Anchorage, and other communities across Cook Inlet and beyond. Food Bank of Alaska also supports anti-hunger leadership initiatives through the Alaska Food Coalition. Sub-awards to Food Bank of Alaska were made on March 25, April 17, May 19, and June 16, 2026.