Healthy Meals Incentives for Small & Rural Schools
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- One-time opportunity
- Tracked since
- April 2026
Source: the cycle recorded on this listing. Confirm dates with the funder.
Overview
Program Overview: As part of a cooperative agreement to develop and implement the USDA Food and Nutrition Service's Healthy Meals Incentives Initiative, Action for Healthy Kids and its partners RMC Health and Chef Ann Foundation have awarded grants to small and/or rural School Food Authorities to improve the nutritional quality of school meals.
Funding Source: USDA Food and Nutrition Service Healthy Meals Incentives Initiative
Partners: Action for Healthy Kids, RMC Health, Chef Ann Foundation
Award Results:
- Total awarded: Nearly $30 million in grants
- Number of grantees: 264 small and/or rural School Food Authorities
- Geographic scope: 44 states and the District of Columbia
Eligible Applicants: Small and/or rural School Food Authorities
Chef Ann Foundation's Role: Providing technical assistance to grantees, including:
- Facilitating innovative staff training programs
- Modernizing operations
- Advancing efforts to support school food professionals and healthy school meals
Focus Areas:
- Improving the nutritional quality of school meals
- Supporting small and rural schools
What Chef Ann Foundation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 11
- Total given
- $1.4M
- Median grant
- $137K
- Range
- $35K–$325K
- By dollars: Massachusetts 23%, Michigan 21%, West Virginia 16%. Top recipient cities: Dorchester, MA; Fayetteville, WV; Detroit, MI.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
Example grants
Commonwealth Kitchen · Dorchester, MA
Systems assistance grant
$325K
New Roots Community Farm · Fayetteville, WV
Systems assistance grant
$228K
Detroit Public School Community District · Detroit, MI
Systems assistance grant
$153K
Anchorage School District · Anchorage, AK
Systems assistance grant
$143K
Gulf of Maine Research Institute · Portland, ME
Systems assistance grant
$141K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- K-12 schools
- Nutrition
- Food security
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