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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$144,243,379

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICE

social-servicesexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2024 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2024-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-04-02·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_252IL007W1006_012
Award description

WIC FOOD EXPENSE

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Funds Illinois's administration and food expenses for the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition program serving low-income families.

Sub-sectors
wic-nutritionformula-grant-entitlementstate-administration
Why this matters

WIC is a foundational federal nutrition entitlement; this obligation sustains ongoing benefits for ~400,000 Illinois participants across fiscal 2025.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for USDA-approved foods (dairy, produce, infant formula, cereals) through state procurement and vendor networks.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-24. Cost: $0.002842.

Period of performance
Start
2024-10-01
End
2025-09-30
Status
expired286 days ago
Sources

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