Program name | Year begun | Fiscal year 2024 cost (million U.S. dollars) | Fiscal year 2024 participation |
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) | 1961 | $99,787.9 | 41.7 million participants per month |
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) | 1972 | $7,184.5 | 6.7 million participants per month |
National School Lunch Program (NLSP) | 1946 | $17,711.0 | 4.8 billion total lunches served |
School Breakfast Program (SBP) | 1966 | $5,702.8 | 2.5 billion total breakfasts served |
Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) | 1968 | $4,072.4 | 1.7 billion total meals served |
Summer Food Service Program (SFSP or SUN Meals) | 1969 | $516.1 | 159.2 million total meals and snacks |
Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children Program (Summer EBT or SUN Bucks) | 2024 | N/A* | N/A* |
Special Milk Program (SMP) | 1955 | $4.7 | 17.6 million total half pints served |
State Administrative and Other Costs for Child Nutrition Programs | N/A | $571.7 | N/A |
Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT)** | 2020 | $361.2 | N/A |
Nutrition Assistance Program for Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the Northern Marianas (NAP) | 1982*** | $3,005.3 | N/A |
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) | 1981 | $2,416.5 | N/A |
Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) | 1969 | $384.2 | 716,025 participants per month |
Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) | 1976 | $152.8 | 53,483 participants per month |
Nutrition Services Incentive Program**** | 1965 | $2.2 | N/A |
Disaster Feeding | N/A | $0 | N/A |
Administrative expenses (not elsewhere classified) | N/A | $168.7 | N/A |
Total expenditures | N/A | $142,203.1 | N/A |
*Data not available as of April 2025. Note: Fiscal year 2024 information is based on preliminary data from the September 2024 Program Information Report (Keydata) released by USDA, Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) in December 2024. Information on the year programs began (other than P-EBT and Summer EBT) comes from the Annual Historical Review Fiscal Year 1997, USDA, Food and Nutrition Service, September 1999. Source: USDA, Economic Research Service using USDA, FNS data. |
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