Meal distribution in fiscal 2025

Compiled by the Gleaners Food Bank Wiki editorial team · First published 9 November 2026 · Revised 9 November 2026

Summary: Gleaners said that it and Fresh Connect Central distributed 102,265,583 meals in fiscal 2025. More than half of that combined total was attributed to Fresh Connect Central shipments to Feeding America banks nationwide.

What total does the organization publish for fiscal 2025?

In the key takeaways from its 2025 Impact Report, Gleaners said that it and Fresh Connect Central distributed 102,265,583 meals in fiscal year 2025.^[1] The same write-up and the linked PDF report break that total into channels: network partners, the on-site pantry, mobile pantries, school pantries, senior programs, Gleaners2Go and home delivery, and Fresh Connect Central wholesale shipments to Feeding America food banks nationwide.^[1][2]

Those numbers are the organization’s own accounting. This page restates them in one table so readers can see the mix, including the fact that the national wholesale channel is more than half of the combined figure. It is not an audit by this wiki, and it is not a claim that every meal was eaten in the 21-county service area.^[1]

How do the published channels add up?

The percentage column is a straightforward division of each published channel by the published total, rounded to one decimal place, and is the original arithmetic on this page. Residual rounding can keep the displayed shares from summing to exactly 100.0. The source write-up also states that 69 percent of food ranked nutritious on Healthy Eating Research guidelines, that SNAP outreach contributed 1,529,975 meals and assisted 3,444 neighbors, and that the year involved 137 employees and 12,744 volunteers.^[1]

Methodology: figures were copied from the official 2025 impact takeaways page retrieved for this edition, then shares were calculated. No other year was back-filled, and no county-level meal counts were invented.^[1] If a later report revises a line, that revision, not this table, is the authority.

How should the total be read?

A meal-equivalent is a food-bank accounting convention, often built from poundage, not a plate count at a table. Fresh Connect Central’s nationwide line is especially easy to misread as local Indianapolis volume; the organization itself labels that line as distribution to Feeding America banks nationwide.^[1][3] Indiana-facing channels (partners, the on-site pantry, mobile and school pantries, senior programs, and Gleaners2Go) are the figures most relevant to the 21-county area, and even those include food that may be redistributed by partners.

Purchasing is part of the story. The organization says it now buys nearly half of the food it distributes.^[4] Volume in a purchased-food year is therefore not a simple function of donated surplus. Readers comparing years should look at the official reports rather than treat this single-year table as a trend.

Questions often asked

See also

• Programs
• Financials and accountability
• Food insecurity in the 21 counties
• Service area
• How food banks work

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Key takeaways from Gleaners’ 2025 Impact Report. Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana (gleaners.org). Retrieved 9 November 2026.
2. ^ 2025 Impact Report (PDF). Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana (gleaners.org). Retrieved 9 November 2026.
3. ^ Our Programs. Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana (gleaners.org). Retrieved 9 November 2026.
4. ^ Our Story. Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana (gleaners.org). Retrieved 9 November 2026.