Federal contractor · VISALIA, CA

CALIFORNIA DAIRIES INC

CALIFORNIA DAIRIES INC received $73M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards. Its largest customer was Agricultural Marketing Service ($73M).

Obligations · FY2026: $73M
New awards: 4
Sole-source: 0.0%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: NAMADQJ1VJJ9

Small business

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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $73M in FY2026 together.

CALIFORNIA DAIRIES INCVISALIA, CA · Family page
Reported parent$73M
CHALLENGE DAIRY PRODUCTS, INC.DUBLIN, CA
Reported parent$0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

73MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Agricultural Marketing Service$73M100%
4 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$73M100%

Where the work was performed

Stanislaus County, CA$70.6M97%
Kern County, CA$2.4M3.4%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

Low competition0.0%
US 39% · $0
Sole-source awards0.0%
US 30% · $0
Single-offer competitions0.0%
US 8.7% · $0
Urgency justifications0.0%
US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000011229/4100033991/BUTTER PRINT SALTED CTN-36/1 LB$70.6M
Agricultural Marketing Service· Stanislaus County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 13, 2026 – Sep 24, 2026· 123J1426C0923
COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000011228/4100033986/MILK 2% MILKFAT UHT 2640 BOX-27/8 FL OZ,MILK 1% MILKFAT UHT 2640 BOX-27/8 FL OZ$2.1M
Agricultural Marketing Service· Kern County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 10, 2026 – Apr 10, 2026· 123J1426C0918
COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000011271/4100034128/MILK 1% MILKFAT UHT 2640 BOX-27/8 FL OZ$286.1K
Agricultural Marketing Service· Kern County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· May 6, 2026 – May 6, 2026· 123J1426C1060
COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000011437/4100034775/MILK 1% MILKFAT UHT 2640 BOX-27/8 FL OZ$81.4K
Agricultural Marketing Service· Kern County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 13, 2026 – Aug 13, 2026· 123J1426C1715

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

CALIFORNIA DAIRIES INC received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 0 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026: $0
New awards: 0
Actions: 0
Since FY2022: $15.9M

Assistance by fiscal year

9.8MFY2022
6.1MFY2023
0FY2025

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2022–FY2025.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

MASTERS GALLERY FOODS, INCORPORATED$94.5M+181% in FY2026
PLYMOUTH, WI · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAgricultural Marketing Service · Dairy product manufacturing
GOSSNER FOODS, INC$61.3M+55% in FY2026
LOGAN, UT · 74% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAgricultural Marketing Service · Dairy product manufacturing
SAPUTO CHEESE USA INC$48M−66% in FY2026
MILWAUKEE, WI · 66% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAgricultural Marketing Service · Dairy product manufacturing

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Across the company family of CALIFORNIA DAIRIES INC (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

CALIFORNIA DAIRIES, INC.AI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2023: $320K; 8 reports
PAC giving · 2026: $71K; 1 PAC

Lobbying by year

2023$320K
8 reports

Top issues

Agriculture8 reports
Immigration8 reports
Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code8 reports
Trade (domestic and foreign)8 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES8 reports
U.S. SENATE8 reports
Food & Drug Administration (FDA)4 reports
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)2 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

DOTCHIN & ASSOCIATES, LLC$240K
4 reports
Nexa Strategies, LLC$80K
4 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

Republican$47K66%
Democratic$23K32%
Other or none$1,0001.4%

PACs sponsored

CALIFORNIA DAIRIES, INC. FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$439.7K raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2026 cycle

Vince Fong$10K
R-CA-20 · House · 1 PAC
David G. Valadao$10K
R-CA-22 · House · 1 PAC
Jim Costa$5,000
D-CA-21 · House · 1 PAC
Adam Gray$5,000
D-CA-13 · House · 1 PAC
James Gallagher$5,000
R-CA-1 · House · 1 PAC
Blake D. Moore$5,000
R-UT-1 · House · 1 PAC
Jimmy Panetta$5,000
D-CA-19 · House · 1 PAC
Adrian Smith$5,000
R-NE-3 · House · 1 PAC
Darrell Issa$2,500
R-CA-48 · House · 1 PAC
Dusty Johnson$2,500
R-SD · House · 1 PAC

$68.5K of the $71K its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 19 members of Congress.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2024 cycle

Vince Fong$10K
R-CA-20 · House · 1 PAC
Mike Garcia$10K
R-CA-27 · House · 1 PAC
Dusty Johnson$10K
R-SD · House · 1 PAC
Young Kim$10K
R-CA-40 · House · 1 PAC
Scott H. Peters$10K
D-CA-50 · House · 1 PAC

Direct and in-kind contributions the members' campaigns received (FEC), net of refunds. Party and seat are the member's current or latest.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 2448 · Renewable Natural Gas Incentive Act of 20232 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2023
S. 549 · DAIRY PRIDE Act2 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2023

2 of 8 reports (2023) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.