Feeding America supports a variety of federal food assistance programs that help feed Americans struggling with hunger. The Idaho Foodbank helps administer a few of those programs to aid hungry Idahoans.
Do you know all of the federal food assistance programs? Let us help you! By using our chart learn how the food assistance programs differ and who they target. Then dig deeper into each program by following the linked acronym.
| Acronym | Full Name | Brief Description | Income Eligibility (2016) | Moms & Kids | Fostering Nutrition | Senior Hunger | Supplying Foodbanks | The Idaho Foodbank (2016) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CACFP | The Child and Adult Care Food Program | Provides nutritious meals and snacks to children and adults in designated child and adult care centers. | Reduced Price Meals: 185% of the Federal income poverty guidelines. Free Meals: 130% of the Federal income poverty guidelines. |  | | | ||
| CSFP | The Commodity Supplemental Food Program | Provides food assistance for low-income seniors with a monthly package of healthy USDA commodities. | 130% of the Federal income poverty guidelines. | | | | | Administers State Wide |
| NSLP | The National School Lunch Program | Provides nutritionally balanced lunch to qualified children each school day. | Reduced Price Meals: 185% of the Federal income poverty guidelines. Free Meals: 130% of the Federal income poverty guidelines. | | | |||
| SBP | The School Breakfast Program | Provides nutritionally balanced breakfast to qualified children each school day. | Reduced Price Meals: 185% of the Federal income poverty guidelines. Free Meals: 130% of the Federal income poverty guidelines. | | | |||
| SFSP | The Summer Food Service Program | Provides free meals and snacks to low-income children during the summer months. | Depends upon sponsor of the program. The Idaho Foodbank operates all open sites, meaning no income verification is necessary. | | | Administers Partially: Boise-Metro Area | ||
| SNAP | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program | Provides timely, targeted, and temporary benefits to low-income Americans to buy groceries. | 130% of the Federal income poverty guidelines. | | | | ||
| TEFAP | The Emergency Food Assistance Program | Provides USDA commodities to families in need of short-term hunger relief through emergency food providers like food banks. | 133% of the Federal income poverty guidelines. | | | | | Partial Statewide: Administers Eastern Idaho |
| WIC | Women, Infants, and Children | Provides nutritious foods and nutrition education for low-income, at risk women, infants. | 185% of the Federal income poverty guidelines. | | |