Federal Grant Award Summary

The Idaho Department of Health & Welfare received a $400,000 Formula Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) Administrative Costs program (CFDA 10.568), effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. This award provides funding to support the administrative, storage, and distribution costs associated with operating TEFAP within Idaho. The funding allocation is determined by a congressionally mandated formula that weighs the state's proportional share of persons living below the poverty level (60 percent) and unemployed individuals (40 percent).

Under this award, the Department must make a minimum of 40 percent of the administrative grant funds available to emergency feeding organizations—including food banks, food pantries, and soup kitchens—either through direct grants or by expending funds on their behalf. The Department will utilize the funding to support critical infrastructure that enables Idaho's emergency food network to supplement diets of low-income populations. Funds are distributed on an as-needed basis for actual expenditures, with any unused allocations returned to the federal government for reallocation according to the established formula.