WIC admin expenses

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded Washington State Department of Health $62.355 million on October 1, 2025, under the WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (CFDA 10.557), a formula grant for FFY 2026 WIC administrative expenses, with period of performance through September 30, 2026.

The award funds administration of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, which provides supplemental nutritious foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding promotion and support, and health and social service referrals to income-eligible pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age five determined to be at nutritional risk.

Washington State Department of Health, the direct recipient, is a state government entity operating as a prime recipient on federal contracts and grants delivering public health surveillance, vaccination and immunization services, vital records management, environmental monitoring, water infrastructure financing, nutrition assistance administration, and disease prevention services. Place of performance is Washington, with administrative headquarters in Tumwater and Olympia.

The state distributes pass-through funding to 25 sub-recipients providing WIC client services, breastfeeding peer counselor services, and food procurement across Washington State. Sub-recipients include local health departments (Lewis County, Chelan-Douglas, Grays Harbor, Klickitat, Skamania, Island, Adams, Asotin, Mason, Northeast Tri County, Spokane Regional, Jefferson, San Juan, Walla Walla, and County of Spokane); federally qualified health centers and hospital districts (Skagit County Public Hospital District 304, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, Yakima Neighborhood Health Services, Sea Mar Community Health Centers, Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic, Columbia Basin Health Association, Moses Lake Community Health Center, Multicare Health System, Columbia Valley Community Health, Cowlitz Family Health Center, Grant County Hospital District 5, Family Health Centers, and Kitsap Community Resources); tribal governments (Yakama Nation, Confederated Tribes of Colville Reservation, and Suquamish Indian Tribe); and community-based organizations (Community Action of Skagit County, South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency, West Central Community Development Association, Seattle Indian Health Board, Pregnancy Aid, and Puyallup Tribal Health Authority). Sub-recipients provide WIC nutrition program services, breastfeeding peer counseling, and food distribution following WIC federal regulations, state policies, and directives. Multiple amendments and caseload updates across sub-awards span February through July 2026.