Federal grant programs / Department of Agriculture

SNAP Partnership Grant (10.577)

Also known as Longitudinal Data Project

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$4.2 million
• Grant awards2
• Typical award$2.1 million
• Awarded in FY 2025-$1.2 million
• Size rank1,650 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceProject grants

Key findings

• It is the 1650th largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• Awards went to recipients in 2 states and territories.

What the program funds

The purpose of the SNAP Partnership grants is to establish interstate data exchange projects for program information in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

State agencies interested in establishing longitudinal research databases with eligibility, benefit, and demographic information about SNAP households and individual members. To be eligible, the SNAP administering agencies must have the capacity to provide, on a periodic and ongoing basis, household and participant data derived from their eligibility system and other data sources of the State. No cost sharing or matching considerations exist for this project.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Equipment and Supplies: Expenditures for both equipment (i.e., items of personal property having a useful life of more than one year and a cost of $5,000 or more) and supplies are allowable expenses. Contracts: Grantees may use grant funds to procure contracts for goods or services. Contract procurement for the SNAP LDP must meet the requirements for a fair and open competition under (insert reg cite from grants). Resources – contractors and staff to support technology implementation and management, business process improvement, and data management (e.g. data extraction, data cleansing, data quality for shared data Technologies and Software – databases and software technologies to collect, link, cleanse, and curate date for sharing. Cross-Agency Collaboration – data integration projects, sharing agreement development, staff time from other offices/agencies to participate, and databases to jointly identify and curate data. Gold Standard: Establish or meet the Gold Standard or participate in National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). FNS highly encourages States to implement the gold standard for shared data and to encourage States to work towards the NIEM. States can request grant funding to accommodate participation in both the Gold Standard and to work towards NIEM. Additional information on the gold standard and NIEM submission are located in the SNAP PFP (Longitudinal Data Project (LDP) | USDA-FNS).

Continue reading on SAM.gov

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

Program no longer accepting applications.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

The maximum amount a State may request per application is $2.25 million; there is no minimum amount.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

Almost all of the money went to state and local governments.

By state

Each state below has its own page for this program, with its recipients and yearly totals.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.