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National School Lunch Program

National School Lunch Program recorded $27.8 billion of federal assistance obligations under this Assistance Listing in fiscal year 2026, which ranks 13 of 1,888 assistance programs with a figure in FY2026.

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Assistance Listing
10.555

The record

Reported figures for National School Lunch Program, each linked to its source
Obligated · FY2026Assistance only — grants, loans, direct payments and insurance. Contracts carry no Assistance Listing number and are not in this figure.$27,831,691,969USD
Rank among assistance programs · FY202613 of 1,888by obligations
Share of all assistance programs · FY2026Of $4.1 trillion, which is what every assistance program the publisher reported obligated in FY2026 — not the federal total, which is larger.0.7%percent

By fiscal year

National School Lunch Program: federal assistance obligations under this Assistance Listing, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$34,656,032,542
FY2023$27,332,241,200
FY2024$26,572,552,633
FY2025$27,651,140,310
FY2026$27,831,691,969

The publisher holds five fiscal years of this breakdown. A year missing from this table is a year this assistance program was not reported in, not a year of no spending.

The nearest ranks

assistance programs ranked nearest National School Lunch Program, FY2026
Rankassistance programObligated
10Supplemental Security Income$59,630,309,518
11Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers$35,814,461,609
12Federal Pell Grant Program$29,471,530,796
14Children's Health Insurance Program$22,719,074,157
15Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters)$19,656,083,528
16Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies$18,440,156,783

What this data cannot show

  • The fiscal year is not over. These are obligations recorded so far, and a figure here is not comparable with a full year.
  • An obligation is a binding commitment to pay, not money paid. Outlays are reported separately and the two are never equal in the same year.
  • Assistance only — grants, loans, direct payments and insurance. Contracts carry no Assistance Listing number and are not in this figure.
  • This page is built from the database rather than from the committed extract, so it covers every assistance program the publisher reported and not only the largest hundred the ranking names. Both come from the same ingest on the date above.

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