Building a community where every family has access to healthy, reliable food.
Why it Matters
Thousands of Cleveland families face days where the fridge is empty and the worry is heavy. Hunger sits in the background of everything — school, work, life.
🍽 1 in 6 people in the Greater Cleveland Food Bank’s service area is food insecure — unsure where their next meal will come from.
👶 Cleveland’s child poverty rate is among the highest of any large U.S. city.
👵 1 in 4 senior citizens in Greater Cleveland is at risk of hunger.
📈 Rising food prices have pushed record numbers of new families to seek help this past year.
🧡 In FY25, the Food Bank served over 404,000 people — more than at the height of the pandemic.
“If you cannot feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”