Cap tefap admin grts to STS

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded Education & Early Development Alaska DEP $159,227 on October 1, 2025, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs) (CFDA 10.568), a formula grant allocating administrative funding to state agencies for storage and distribution of USDA Foods through the Emergency Food Assistance Program.

The award funds administrative costs incurred by Alaska's designated distributing agency to support TEFAP operations statewide. The grant period runs through September 30, 2026, with performance in Alaska.

Under the formula allocation methodology, Alaska's share is calculated using 60 percent of the state's relative proportion of persons with income below the poverty level and 40 percent of unemployed persons. Education & Early Development Alaska DEP must make at least 40 percent of administrative grant funds available to emergency feeding organizations or expend such funds on their behalf.

The recipient passed through multiple sub-awards to Food Bank of Alaska Inc. (awarded January 16, January 20, February 20, and March 25, 2026) for Emergency Food Assistance Program administration. Food Bank of Alaska provides commodity supplemental foods, holiday food distributions, and mobile food pantry programs to Alaska Native and American Indian households in the Mat-Su Valley, Anchorage, and other communities throughout Cook Inlet.