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Child Nutrition-Technology Innovation Grant

Program Information

Popular name

TIG

Program Number

10.541

Program objective

The purpose of the Child Nutrition Non-Competitive Technology Innovation Grants (nTIG) is to allow State agencies that administer the Child Nutrition Programs (CNPs) to apply for grant funding for the purposes of developing, improving, and maintaining automated information technology systems used to operate and manage Child Nutrition (CN) Programs (i.e., National School Lunch Program (NSLP), School Breakfast Program (SBP), Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), and Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)). The FY 2024 Summer EBT Technology Grants are awarded non-competitively through an equitable allocation to all Summer EBT coordinating agencies, Summer EBT agencies that implemented Summer-EBT in Summer 2024 and plan to continue the program in Summer 2025 as well as those who plan to newly implement in Summer 2025.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    FY2016 funds were combined into the FY2017 funds and awarded in FY2017.

  2. 2017

    USDA awarded nine (9) grants to the following states:

    *Florida Department of Elder Affairs

    *Iowa Department of Education

    *Kansas State Department of Education

    *Michigan Department of Education

    *Minnesota Department of Education

    *Montana Office of Public Instruction

    *New Jersey Department of Agriculture

    *Pennsylvania Department of Education

    *Tennessee Department of Human Services

  3. 2024

    52 applicants funded totaling $38,691,035

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

2 CFR Part 415, USDA “General Program Administrative Regulations”; 2 CFR Part 416, USDA “General Program Administrative Regulations for Grants and Cooperative Agreements to State and Local Governments”

Program details

Program types

Eligible applicants

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Local
  • State

Additional resources