Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs: Image Gallery

USDA food and nutrition assistance programs, costs and participation, fiscal 2007

Program name

Year begun

Cost ($millions)

Participation

Food stamp-related programs

1961

33,017.5

26.5 million participants per month

Nutrition Assistance Program for Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the Northern Marianas (NAP)

1982¹

1,566.8

Not available

Child nutrition programs

National School Lunch Program (NSLP)

1946

8,714.9

28.3 million daily lunches served (average)

School Breakfast Program (SBP)

1966

2,160.5

9.4 million daily breakfasts served (average)

Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)

1968

2,232.3

1.8 billion total
meals and snacks served

Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)

1969

288.9

120.3 million total
meals and snacks

Special Milk Program (SMP)

1955

13.8

91.4 million total
half pints served

Administrative Expenses for Child Nutrition Programs

—

230.0

—

Supplemental food programs

Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

1972

5,469.7

8.3 million participants
per month

Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)

1969

141.0

466.1 thousand participants per month

Food donation programs

The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)

1981

246.3

Not available

Nutrition Services Incentive Program²

1965

2.6

Not available

Food Distribution on Indian Reservations (FDPIR)

1976

77.0

86.6 thousand participants per month

Disaster Feeding³

—

7.1

Not available

Administrative expenses, n.e.c.

—

140.5

—

Total expenditures

—

54,309.0

—

— = Not applicable.
n.e.c. = Not elsewhere classified.
Note: Information on program costs and participation come from USDA, Food and Nutrition Service, Program Information Report (Keydata) September 2007, November 2007 (subject to revision). Information on year program began comes from USDA, Food and Nutrition Service, Annual Historical Review Fiscal Year 1997, September 1999.
¹American Samoa’s Nutrition Assistance Program started in 1994.
²Administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, (formerly known as the Nutrition Program for the Elderly).
³Administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).