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Here’s how we helped
200,000 people
each month this past year.

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Dedicated Team

Intentional Strategy

Impactful Programs

A Community of Caring

Generous Supporters

Fiscal Responsibility

Our Mission

We heal hunger with innovative and collaborative solutions that provide food today and help create a hunger-free tomorrow.

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CORE Values

We believe that food is a basic human right and that all people should have access to the food they need to live healthy lives. We are committed to solving the problem of hunger while strengthening individuals and communities.

Innovation

Collaboration

Respect

Integrity

Equity

“In a year marked by continued challenges, we’ve continued to see a community of caring come together to help ensure children, families and individuals have the food they need, while working toward a future free from hunger.”

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A Dedicated Team

Executive Board

The OFS board is made up of leaders from diverse fields who are dedicated to the work of healing hunger and ensuring that OFS fulfills its mission.

Friends Board

The dynamic young professionals on our Friends Board use their common interest in ending childhood hunger to support our Operation Backpack program.

Staff

OFS employees work hard every day to rescue and distribute food, empower the community, and create long-term solutions to the problem of hunger.

Healing hunger with an
INTENTIONAL STRATEGY

Our work is divided into three pillars that align with our strategy to alleviate food insecurity and help create a hunger-free tomorrow.

  • Meet The Immediate Need

    Operation backpack

    Operation Backpack provides weekly sacks of kid-friendly, shelf-stable food, free of charge, to get students through the weekend when school meals are not available.EVENTSFeast logoParty Packs logo

  • Meet The Immediate Need

    Agency distribution

    We provide food to nearly 200 partner agencies working to address the needs in their communities.

  • Meet The Immediate Need

    OUT-OF-SCHOOL MEALS

    Our Summer Meals and Afterschool ReFuel programs provide vital nutrition to children when school is out.

  • Build Nutrition IQ

    NUTRITION EDUCATION

    OFS empowers individuals and the community with skills, knowledge and confidence to prepare healthy, affordable meals at home.

  • Build Nutrition IQ

    demonstrations

    On- and off-site demonstrations for groups and organizations teach how to cook nutritious meals at home and on a budget.

  • Build Nutrition IQ

    OPERATION CHEF

    Courses that teach culinary skills weave nutrition education into every recipe, discussion and hands-on activity.

  • Champion Change

    Policy

    We work with lawmakers and stakeholders to advance public and institutional policies that help families put nutritious food on the table.

  • Champion Change

    Advocacy

    We educate, train and empower people to engage in the policy-making process to ensure that all voices are represented.

  • Champion Change

    INNOVATION PROGRAMS

    Our innovative solutions address the root causes of hunger to improve the overall health of individuals and communities.

Supporting Our Community Through
IMPACTFUL PROGRAMS

Supporting Families in
40 COUNTIES
& 2 STATES

through Food Distribution & Nutrition Education

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We couldn’t do any of this without our
Community of Caring

5,309 Volunteers devoted 41,776 hours, saving OFS $1.2 million during the fiscal year.

Community of Caring
VOLUNTEERS

Volunteers are critical to our mission. Individuals and groups help sort and pack food, assist at events, glean produce at farms, support our program operations and lend a hand in the office. We rely on their passion for our mission, and their work saves us significant financial resources, allowing that money to be spent on helping more people every year.

Dedicated
Partners
Empower Our Work

OFS collaborates with a broad range of organizations and entities to fulfill our mission. We are grateful for the resources, expertise and support they provide.

Community of Caring
EVENTS

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Our Generous Supporters

Operation Food Search values gifts of every level and amount. We are extremely grateful to all our donors for making this work possible. We simply could not do our work without the help of all those who invest in our mission to heal hunger.

See the links below to view our leadership donors. We make every effort to maintain accurate records. To advise us of a change, please contact Ellen Reed-Fox at (314) 451-1950.

Fiscal
Responsibility

Operation Food Search upholds the highest standards of nonprofit accountability. We work tirelessly to ensure that donations are used efficiently to maximize benefit to the community we serve.

TOTAL REVENUE

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$34,078,385

Investment Loss: -$1,590,036

TOTAL EXPENSES

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$34,683,675

Value of Food and Other Items Distributed

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$29,474,607

PROGRAMS & INITIATIVES

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$33,232,088