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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$144,243,379

Department of Agriculture·Food and Nutrition Service

to ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICE

ACTION DATE2026-04-02·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

Reimburses Illinois for WIC food expenses, providing nutrition assistance to low-income pregnant women, infants, and children.

Sub-sectors
snap-wicnutrition-assistancestate-formula-grant
Why this matters

WIC is a foundational federal nutrition program serving ~6 million vulnerable Americans; formula grants ensure consistent state-level benefit delivery.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for authorized WIC-eligible foods (dairy, produce, infant formula, cereals) through retail networks in Illinois.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002090.

Period of performance
Start
2024-10-01
End
2025-09-30
Status
expired229 days ago
Sources

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