Feeding South Dakota

Food bank (sioux falls, rapid city and pierre) - surplus and salvage food is brought to our distribution centers and is distributed to other non-profit organizations that operate on-site food service or nutrition programs throughout the state of South Dakota.

Our mobile food pantry program distributes food to individuals and families living in high-need neighborhoods and communities with limited access to nutritious food resources. With the help of numerous community partners and volunteers, this program provided 8.36 million pounds of food resulting in over 6.97 million meals to those in need in fiscal year 2023.

Feeding South Dakota administers two usda commodity programs for the state of South Dakota. Those programs include: the emergency food assistance program (tefap) and the commodity supplemental food program (csfp). Tefap provided commodity products to qualified emergency Feeding programs. Csfp provided supplemental food boxes to low-income, eligible seniors.

Our backpack, wellness, and school pantry programs provide at-risk children with nutritious, easy-to-prepare food. Through the backpack program, approximately 3,700 children were served statewide each week during the school year. During fiscal year 2023, our school food pantry program distributed over 148,000 pounds of food and our wellness pantry distributed over 35,000 pounds of food in sioux falls and the rapid city area.