Stanislaus County
Empire Union Elementary
Empire Union Elementary has received $590,433 from the Kitchen Infrastructure and Training (KIT) Fund: $509,127 in 2022 and a $81,306 grant in 2025. The California Department of Education (CDE) has not published the 2026 allocations yet.
$509,127
2022 KIT allocation
$81,306
2025 KIT grant
KIT Fund allocations
What the KIT Fund has sent this district, round by round.
- 2022 allocation
- $509,127 in the 2022 round: $269,214 base plus $239,913 for freshly prepared meals. As of March 29, 2024.
- 2025 grant
- $81,306 in the 2025 round. As of March 11, 2026.
- 2026 allocation
- Not yet published by CDE. The formula and the amount per agency are still to be decided. As of September 29, 2026.
- County-District-School (CDS) code
- 50710760000000
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What the 2026 KIT Fund can pay for
Who qualifies, when the money arrives and what it can pay for.
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Who decides in a district
KIT money goes to the district's food service (nutrition services) department, so its director decides how it is spent. An education or curriculum lead, a farm-to-school buyer and a garden coordinator often shape a garden program, and in our work a garden coordinator housed in food services has worked well, since food service already runs as a business.
Gardens and garden education here
Ten Strands found no public evidence of school garden programs here.
From Ten Strands' statewide district dataset, as of September 29, 2026. Ten Strands looks for public evidence, so a missing item may mean the district has not said so publicly.
Coalition members near Stanislaus County
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