Kids Food Basket Facts

  • KFB provides over 1,600 sack supper evening meals every day to children at 16 elementary schools. That's over 310,000 meals yearly.
  • An additional 15 schools are on the waiting list
  • At each school KFB serves, 80% or more of students receive free or reduced lunch
  • Each supper contains 800 - 1000 calories and 5 food groups
  • Sack supper contents: one fresh fruit and vegetable, a meat & cheese sandwich, a health snack and a 100% fruit juice box.
  • It takes just $0.86 to feed a child an evening meal - that's $140 for an entire year
  • Volunteers serve from ages 5 - 95 and number over 1,500. On average, 80 people volunteer at KFB each day
  • KFB receives no government funding; all funds are donated by caring individuals, corporations, foundations, civic groups and churches.
For more information on Kids Food Basket visit www.kidsfoodbasket.org