Impact — fiscal year 2025

The year, weighed and counted

Numbers about hunger deserve the same honesty we promise at the pantry door. Here's what last year added up to — and, just as important, exactly how we counted it.

meals distributed across the region: 2.1M
of groceries rescued before the landfill: 1.26M lbs
neighbors served at least once: 18,400
volunteers gave 41,000 hours: 2,300
neighborhood pantries stocked weekly: 14
Mobile Market stops, every single week: 11
weekend school packs in an average week: 1,150
seniors on monthly delivery routes: 640

Follow the dollar

Why $1 helps provide 3 meals

About 60% of what leaves our warehouse is rescued or donated food that costs us only sorting and fuel. The rest we buy wholesale through a regional food-bank purchasing co-op. That's how one dollar stretches to roughly three meals — a number we recalculate every year and explain on our impact page.

The ratio isn't a slogan — it's an output. Total meals distributed divided by total operating spend, recalculated every fiscal year. When it changes, this page changes.

Put a dollar to work

Where a 2025 dollar went

Food: rescue logistics + wholesale buying72¢
Programs: pantries, market, packs, boxes18¢
Keeping the lights on: admin + fundraising10¢

We don't apologize for the 10¢ — good stewardship needs bookkeepers too.

Methodology

How we count — in plain language

If a number on this site can't survive this section, it doesn't belong on this site.

Meals: we use the standard food-bank convention of 1.2 lbs of food = 1 meal. 'Meals distributed' is total outbound pounds ÷ 1.2, counted at the warehouse scale on the way out — not estimated at the pantry end.
Meal math ($1 = 3 meals): calculated each fiscal year as total meals distributed ÷ total operating spend. It holds only because roughly 60% of our food is rescued or donated; if we bought everything at retail the same dollar would buy less than one meal.
Neighbors served: unique households × average household size from voluntary intake conversations. Nobody is required to register, so this figure is our floor, not a precise census.
Rescued pounds: weighed on collection from grocery, farm, and bakery partners. 'Rescued' means the food was headed for disposal within 48 hours.
These figures describe a fictional organization on a sample website. They are modeled on realistic regional food-bank scales but are illustrative, not audited.

And one thing we can't weigh

“The scale counts pounds. It doesn't count the mom who stopped skipping dinner so her kids wouldn't, or the senior whose Tuesday visit from a driver is the best part of the week. Those numbers stay uncounted — but they're the whole point.”

— Dee Marsh, Executive Director

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