Federal contractor · IRVING, TX

DARLING INGREDIENTS INC

DARLING INGREDIENTS INC received $352K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (+30% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $4M. Its largest customer was Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ($352K).

Obligations · FY2026: $352K
New awards: 2
Sole-source: 0.0%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: UG8DVY7ELJG9

Other than 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.

3 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $352K in FY2026 together.

DARLING INGREDIENTS INCIRVING, TX · Family page
Reported parent$352K
GRIFFIN INDUSTRIES LLCCOLD SPRING, KY
Reported parent$0
VALLEY PROTEINS, LLCWINCHESTER, VA
Reported parent$0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

410.8KFY2017
257.3KFY2018
1MFY2019
266.8KFY2020
525.8KFY2021
477.9KFY2022
291.1KFY2023
134.9KFY2024
271.4KFY2025
352KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$352K100%
2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Professional services$352K100%

Where the work was performed

Dallas County, TX$352K100%

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

TASK ORDER FOR DARLING INGREDIENTS (KS - GARDEN CITY PLANT) TYPE B BSE SAMPLE COLLECTION UNDER CONTRACT 12639522D0093. 1,000 SAMPLES$220K
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service· Dallas County, TX· Professional services· Dec 1, 2025 – Dec 1, 2025· 12639526F0063
BSE SAMPLE COLLECTIONS - DARLING CLINTON PLANT IA FOR 600 SAMPLES 12639522D0093 IDIQ$132K
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service· Dallas County, TX· Professional services· Dec 1, 2025 – Dec 1, 2025· 12639526F0069

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.

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

Assistance · FY2026: $0
New awards: 0
Actions: 0

Assistance by fiscal year

1KFY2021

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 · FY2021.

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.

MYPAC INC$639.4K0% in FY2026
HUDSONVILLE, MI · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAnimal and Plant Health Inspection Service · Other support services
RIVERVIEW PACKING, LLC$688K+6.9% in FY2026
BURLEY, ID · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAnimal and Plant Health Inspection Service · Other support services
BROWN PACKING CO INC$438.1K0% in FY2026
GAFFNEY, SC · 73% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAnimal and Plant Health Inspection Service · Other support services

Showing the top 3 of 14 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 DARLING INGREDIENTS INC (3 recipients).

Matched organizations

DARLING INGREDIENTS INC.AI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $579.4K; 8 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $1.7M
PAC giving · 2026: $115.5K; 1 PAC

Lobbying by year

2023$360K
4 reports
2024$360K
4 reports
2025$579.4K
8 reports
2026$360K
5 reports

Top issues

Environment and Superfund13 reports
Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code13 reports
Agriculture12 reports
Trade (domestic and foreign)6 reports
Energy and nuclear5 reports
Budget and appropriations1 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES18 reports
U.S. SENATE18 reports
Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)2 reports
Executive Office of the President (EOP)2 reports
Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)2 reports
State - Dept of (DOS)2 reports
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)2 reports
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)1 reports
Treasury - Dept of1 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

EHRLICH & ASSOCIATES$980K
13 reports
Bracewell LLP$340K
5 reports
CONTINENTAL STRATEGY, LLC$339.4K
3 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

Republican$82.5K71%
Democratic$33K29%

PACs sponsored

DARLING INGREDIENTS INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (DARPAC)$132K 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

Donald G. Davis$10K
D-NC-1 · House · 1 PAC
Michelle Fischbach$10K
R-MN-7 · House · 1 PAC
Pete Ricketts$9,000
R-NE · Senate · 1 PAC
Darin LaHood$7,000
R-IL-16 · House · 1 PAC
Nikki Budzinski$6,000
D-IL-13 · House · 1 PAC
Carol D. Miller$6,000
R-WV-1 · House · 1 PAC
Adrian Smith$6,000
R-NE-3 · House · 1 PAC
Angie Craig$5,000
D-MN-2 · House · 1 PAC
Tom Emmer$5,000
R-MN-6 · House · 1 PAC
Kevin Hern$5,000
R-OK-1 · House · 1 PAC

$113K of the $115.5K its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 26 members of Congress.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2024 cycle

Tammy Baldwin$7,500
D-WI · Senate · 1 PAC
Angie Craig$7,500
D-MN-2 · House · 1 PAC
Richard E. Neal$7,500
D-MA-1 · House · 1 PAC
Adrian Smith$6,500
R-NE-3 · House · 1 PAC
Pete Ricketts$5,500
R-NE · Senate · 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. 6271 · Farm to Fly Act of 20234 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2024
S. 3637 · Farm to Fly Act of 20244 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2024
H.R. 648 · Agriculture Export Promotion Act of 20233 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2023–2024
H.R. 8467 · Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 20243 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2024
S. 176 · Expanding Agricultural Exports Act of 20233 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2023–2024

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.