Cap tefap admin grts to STS

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the Hawaii Department of Labor & Industrial Relations, doing business as the Hawaii Office of Community Services, $225,556 on October 1, 2025, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs) formula grant (CFDA 10.568).

The award funds storage and distribution costs for the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) in Hawaii through September 30, 2026. Under the program's mandatory pass-through requirement, the recipient must make available at minimum 40 percent of the administrative grant to emergency feeding organizations. The Hawaii Office of Community Services administers the program as the State's designated distributing agency and contracts with approximately 650 subrecipient community-based organizations—nonprofits, local units of government, and tribes—for on-the-ground service delivery. TEFAP administrative allocations to States follow a legislatively mandated formula based on each State's relative share of the national population with income below poverty level (60 percent weighting) and unemployed persons (40 percent weighting).