Year in Review

Our impact

Year in review

Every year we publish what your giving actually did — meals, people, hours, and the things a food box cannot cover. Here is the record, year by year.

Healthy meals distributed

Hover a column for that year’s detail.

2020 — 4,883,700 meals, 218,787 individuals served
4,883,7004.9M
2021 — 3,522,252 meals, 145,352 individuals served
3,522,2523.5M
2023 — 3,362,769 meals, 140,876 individuals served
3,362,7693.4M
2024 — 3,510,299 meals, 151,445 individuals served
3,510,2993.5M
2020
2021
2023
2024

2024

16 years of service · April 1, 2024

Our sixteenth year. More people served than any year since the pandemic, and the largest amount of free household goods we have ever given away.

3,510,299
Healthy meals distributed
151,445
Individuals served
50,269
Volunteer hours donated
$556,525
Worth of basic life necessities given free to clients
15,212
Thanksgiving meals provided
15
School partnerships
1,736
Educational hours provided
852
Attendees across 20 classes

2023

15 years of service · April 1, 2023

Fifteen years in. The pantry took the work on the road — 49 offsite distributions on top of everything happening at 661 18th Street.

3,362,769
Healthy meals distributed
140,876
Individuals served
50,269
Volunteer hours donated
$419,399
Worth of basic life necessities given free to clients
16,073
Thanksgiving meals provided
10
School pantries
1,440
Educational hours provided
49
Offsite distributions

2021

13 years of service · April 1, 2021

A year of drive-through pick-ups and food drives — 596 of them — while the community kept the shelves full.

3,522,252
Meals provided
145,352
Individuals served
32,845
Volunteer hours donated
1,654,622
Pounds of perishable food distributed
596
Food drives hosted
4,228
Successful pick-ups completed
16,713
Thanksgiving meals provided
4,489
Gifts shared over the holidays
8
School pantry partnerships
67
Minnie’s on the Go deliveries

2020

The pandemic year

The busiest year in the pantry’s history. Nearly 4.9 million meals — more than any year before or since — as North Texas families lost work overnight.

4,883,700
Meals provided
218,787
Individuals served
55,445
Donated team member hours worked
63,667
Children served
26,254
Veterans served
17,739
Senior citizens served
4,110
Gifts for families at the Christmas Giveaway
283
Gifts delivered for the Senior Citizen Christmas Bash
4,100+
Thanksgiving meals provided

Every one of those meals started with a dollar

One dollar puts three healthy meals on a North Texas table. No overhead trick, no minimum.

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