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Map of Food Resources in Missouri
Click here to access the Local Food Finder. You can use this resource to search for food resources by name, keyword, address, or zip code. You can also add additional resources or update information about existing resources. Click here to access Feeding Missouri’s food pantry map. This resource allows you to search for food pantries by address or zip code. The food pantries listed on this map are supported by Missouri food banks.
Food Assistance Programs and Organizations in Missouri
- Area Agency on Aging: The Area Agencies on Aging are the local experts regarding programs and services in their local areas. Programs and services are designed by the Area Agencies on Aging to meet the needs of the individuals in their planning and service areas. Each Area Agency on Aging provides nutrition services and a variety of supportive services to older adults in its planning and service area.
- Commodity Supplemental Food Program: The Missouri Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) works to improve the health of participants by supplementing their diets with nutritious U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) commodity foods. Eligible participants include low-income elderly persons at least 60 years of age who meet income eligibility requirements.
- Double Up Food Bucks: Double Up Food Bucks matches every $1 of SNAP benefits spent at participating farmers’ markets, farm stands, and grocery stores with another $1 free to purchase more fruits and vegetables, up to $25 per day.
- Food Bank: A food bank is a warehouse for millions of pounds of food and other products that go out to the community.
- Food Pantry: A food pantry is an organization that distributes food directly to people.
- Senior Center: A community facility for the organization and provision of a broad spectrum of services, which shall include provision of health (including mental and behavioral health), social, nutritional, and educational services and the provision of facilities for recreational activities for older individuals.
- Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program: The Missouri Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program provides benefits to low-income seniors (60 years of age or older). Eligible seniors receive $50 in benefits annually, to be used for fresh fruit, vegetables, honey, and herbs. Eligible individuals must reside in one of the 47 Missouri counties that participate in this program.
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): SNAP provides food benefits to low-income families to supplement their grocery budget so they can afford the nutritious food essential to health and well-being.
- The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP): TEFAP provides a monthly box of food to children and needy adults in Missouri. Eligible households in Missouri include household where all members receive public assistance and households with a total income at or below 185% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines.