It’s fair to say that the biggest expenditure in a food bank’s budget is food, especially now, as ongoing demand continues to outstrip the amount of food coming in via donations and federal aid. But there are plenty of other things that food banks spend money on to keep their…
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Feeding America last month published its twelfth annual Map the Meal Gap report, revealing the entrenched nature of food insecurity in the nation’s hardest-hit counties, as well as large disparities between racial and ethnic groups when it comes to food insecurity. Breaking down food insecurity levels by county and then…
Neil Hetherington and his team at Daily Bread Food Bank in Toronto have long vocalized that government policies impact how often people visit food banks. Now they have data to back up that assertion. The food bank supplied monthly usage data from January 2014 through March 2020 to researchers at…
Welcome to the Food Bank News list of the largest 300 food banks in America, by revenue. We’ve compiled this resource as a way to better understand the organizations that have become so critical to fighting food insecurity across the country. From a single organization formed about 50 years ago,…
Our Tableau-driven dashboard of the largest 300 food banks in America is interactive and searchable, while offering many different perspectives of the data. By introducing the dashboard, we hope to advance the collective knowledge and understanding of the players working to solve food insecurity in America. Connect with Us:
Among the insights revealed by a new tool that shows how racism affects food insecurity is that Black Americans in Midwest metropolitan areas are more likely than those in the South to suffer from food insecurity. Feeding America collaborated with Tableau to publish “Identifying Racism in the Drivers of Food…
Miles-long lines at food banks during Covid highlighted just how easily families may slip into food insecurity, despite the ongoing efforts of food banks over the past 50 years to distribute food. Even before Covid exposed the precarious nature of many families’ food budgets, hunger relief organizations were beginning to…
A food bank in Florida is the largest in the state and among the ten largest in the U.S., but was mistakenly omitted from the Food Bank News ranking of the top ten food banks by revenue, published in September. [For our latest information on the scope of the food…
Welcome to the Food Bank News ranking of largest 100 food banks. [For our latest information on the scope of the food banking sector, please see our 2021 Directory of the Top 300 Food Banks.] While there are many ways for a food bank to be “tops,” our ranking is…