The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is seeking applications for the Farm to School State Agency Grant to promote agricultural education and increase the amount of local food served in eligible CNP operators by funding State agencies to support and grow farm to CNP efforts in their States.
Donor Name: Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/10/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program is designed to increase the availability of local foods in schools and connect students to the sources of their food through education, taste tests, school gardens, field trips, and local food sourcing for school meals.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $3,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $500,000
- Award Floor: $50,000
Grant Period
Anticipated period of performance (24 months): July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2027.
Allowable Costs
To accomplish Farm to School Grant Program goals, grantees must ensure that the best use of the available funding is achieved. Expenditures and purchases need to contribute to an approved project activity. In approving grant or subgrant expenditures, a positive answer should always be sought to the following questions:
- Is the cost applicable to my grant and/or the subgrant’s objectives?
- Is the cost allowable according to program cost principles?
- Is the cost reasonable, appropriate, and necessary?
Budgets may include expenses related to personnel, contractors, equipment and supplies, meeting expenses (other than meals), travel, and trainings.
Eligibility Criteria
Entities not meeting the eligibility definitions will be deemed ineligible and removed from competition without further consideration. Only State agencies are eligible for the FY 2025 Farm to School State Agency Grant. For the purposes of this RFA, State agencies are any statewide government agency that administers or works in partnership with the agency that administers the Federal CNPs (e.g., Office of Public Instruction, Department of Education, Department of Agriculture, Department of Health, etc.). Eligibility is not restricted to the State agency that administers the CNP(s). If a State Agency Grant applicant does not administer the NSLP, CACFP, SFSP, and/or the SBP, the applicant must include a letter of commitment from the CNP- administering State agency. This letter of commitment does count toward the three-letter limit.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
