Cap tefap admin grts to STS

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded $10.232 million on October 1, 2025, to the California Department of Social Services Finance and Accounting Division to administer the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs), CFDA 10.568, through September 30, 2026.

The award funds storage and distribution costs for Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) operations throughout California. Under federal/state agreement, the recipient must allocate at least 40 percent of these administrative funds to emergency feeding organizations or expend equivalent amounts on their behalf. TEFAP administrative allocations follow a legislatively mandated formula weighting each state's relative poverty share (60 percent) and unemployment share (40 percent).

California Department of Social Services distributed the funds to 37 sub-recipients across the state on February 13, 2026: food banks including Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, San Francisco Food Bank, Redwood Empire Food Bank, and Central California Food Bank; county social services and community action agencies in Ventura, San Joaquin, Tehama, Tulare, Amador, Inyo, Kings, Merced, Mendocino, Monterey, Marin, and Orange Counties; and community-based nonprofits including Yuba-Sutter Gleaners Food Bank, Amador Tuolumne Community Action Agency, Great Northern Services, Dignity Health Connected Living, Interfaith Council of Amador, and The Resource Connection of Amador & Calaveras Counties. Sub-recipients administer state-supervised food bank programs delivering USDA foods and locally purchased food to low-income individuals and families through emergency feeding organizations and partner agencies.

Place of performance is California. The assistance type is a formula grant.