Snap EBT projects

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the National Association of Farmers Market Nutrition Programs, Inc. $4 million on September 30, 2025, under the Farmers' Market Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Support Grants (CFDA 10.545), a Project Grant.

The recipient provides infrastructure development, technical assistance, and capacity-building services to enable farmers' markets to become SNAP-authorized vendors and process electronic benefit transfer transactions. The organization assists farmers' markets in obtaining SNAP authorization, develops and implements EBT transaction processing infrastructure, trains market staff and farmer-producers, disseminates SNAP outreach materials, and expands access to fresh, locally-grown produce for SNAP beneficiaries. Performance tracking includes increases in SNAP transaction values, the number of SNAP-authorized farmers' markets, the count of participating farmer-producers, and overall SNAP benefit utilization at retail farmers' markets.

The performance period runs through September 30, 2028. Work is performed in Alexandria, Virginia. This represents the fifth consecutive annual award to the recipient since 2021; prior awards totaled approximately $12.27 million across September 2021 ($3.756 million), September 2022 ($1.731975 million), September 2023 ($3.279986 million), and September 2024 ($3.5 million).