Food and Nutrition Service

Food and Nutrition Service
Agency overview
Formed	August 8, 1969
Headquarters	Alexandria, Virginia
Annual budget	$189.03 billion (FY 2023)
Parent agency	United States Department of Agriculture
Child agency	Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), ; National School Lunch Program (NSLP), ; School Breakfast Program (SBP), ; Special Milk Program (SMP), ; Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), ; Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), ; Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), ; Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (FMNP), ; Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), ; Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), ; The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), ; Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), ; Food Assistance for Disaster Relief (FADR), ; Nutrition Assistance Block Grants, including Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP);
Website	www.fns.usda.gov

The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The FNS is the federal agency responsible for administering the nation’s domestic nutrition assistance programs. The service helps to address the issue of hunger in the United States.

FNS administers the programs through its headquarters in Alexandria, VA; regional offices in San Francisco, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, and Robbinsville (NJ); and field offices throughout the US. While its staff number among the USDA's fewest, its budget is by far the largest.

The Food and Nutrition Service is funded under the umbrella of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) through the annual Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. In 2019, $27 billion was allocated for discretionary funding for USDA, which is spread out over many services including WIC, food safety, and other services. Of the expected people to be served in 2019, the estimate for SNAP recipients is 40.8 million, 30 million to have received school lunches, 15 million to have received school breakfast, 6.6 million participating in WIC, and 690,000 elderly people receiving Commodity Supplemental Food Program.

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