Archived Announcements

Resiliency Grants Await Final Budget: Our team has been working diligently to prepare for launch of the next round of awards. We are awaiting the final budget and anticipate award and non-award notifications to be sent soon thereafter. We appreciate your continued patience! 
Please visit the Resiliency Grants webpage for updates. 
If you have any questions, please reach out to foodassistancegrants@agr.wa.gov. 
 

Resiliency Grants Applications Have Been Reviewed: Regional application review discussions have begun and will wrap up around July 24th. We anticipate award and non-award notifications to be sent by the end of the first week in August. Agreements will then be created and issued shortly after. 
Please visit the Resiliency Grants webpage for updates. 
If you have any questions, please reach out to foodassistancegrants@agr.wa.gov. 

June 12, 2025
Resiliency Grants Applications are Now in the Review Process: Reviewers include WSDA employees and non-WSDA volunteers. This process is anticipated to wrap up around the end of June followed by regional meetings.
Please visit the Resiliency Grants webpage for updates. 
If you have any questions, please reach out to foodassistancegrants@agr.wa.gov.

EFAP Allocations are Final: EFAP and EFAP-Tribal Allocations for the 2025-2027 Biennium (July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2027). Please see the links below:

• EFAP County Allocations
• EFAP-Tribal Allocations

As a reminder, funds allocated in SFY 2026 may not be rolled over to SFY 2027. 

Resiliency Grants Application is Closed: The application for the Food Assistance Resiliency Grants Program 2025-2026 is now closed.
Please visit the Resiliency Grants webpage for updates. 
If you have any questions, please reach out to foodassistancegrants@agr.wa.gov. 

Resiliency Grants is now accepting applications! 
The application for the Food Assistance Resiliency Grants Program 2025-2026 is now open through May 22, 2025.
Please visit the Resiliency Grants webpage for updates. 
If you have any questions, please reach out to foodassistancegrants@agr.wa.gov. 

LFPA and LFPA Plus Total Grant Awards Summary: The total LFPA and LFPA Plus funding level is $11,806,813. The funding categories include $11,079,656.58 in pass-through grants to hunger relief organizations and tribes to procure local foods, $103,386.33 for Food Assistance(FA) staffing, and $623,770.09 for FA direct food purchases to be distributed to hunger relief organizations and tribes. In addition, FA provided $401,571.10 in pass-through grants funded by non-USDA sources to cover expenses that were not supported by these USDA grants.
Click here for a list of awards.

LFPA, LFPA Plus, and LFPA25 Recap & Update: WSDA Food Assistance (FA) has been responding to numerous inquiries regarding the Local Food Purchase Assistance (LFPA) Cooperative Agreement with USDA, which was initially launched in 2022. There were three rounds that consisted of LFPA, LFPA Plus, and LFPA25.
On March 7th, WSDA received notification from USDA that while the LFPA and LFPA Plus funds and grant agreements would be honored, the “new” LFPA25 funding for 2025-2027 was officially terminated. WSDA is in the process of seeking a no-cost extension from USDA for Food Assistance LFPA and LFPA Plus grants through December 31, 2025. 
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TEFAP and TEFAP CCC Foods Update: WSDA Food Assistance (FA) has been responding to inquiries about the potential reduction in the amount of TEFAP Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) coming into the system.  There has been a lot of news media coverage around this, and we wanted to provide you with additional information about this and what we are projecting for all TEFAP fund sources (Entitlement, Bonus, and CCC). 
Click here to read more.