In 2025, the pantry served almost 24,000individuals. About 70% of the pantry’s food is provided by the USDA through the pantry’s partnership with the Food Bank for the Heartland. The rest of the food is either donated or purchased.
Vila said adding citizenship requirements to program eligibility would impact more than half of the people who use the pantry. Ending participation in the USDA food assistance program would require the pantry to seek more donations of food and money, he said.
Volunteers at the San Andrés Food Pantry, Molli Surdell (left) and Jen Mangan (right), place cans of pineapple out for distribution on July 8…