Feed America Hunger Atlas Now Indexes 12,563 Verified Food-Assistance Locations Across Pennsylvania

Includes 2,256 food pantries, 143 food banks, 46 soup kitchens, 9,831 SNAP retailers, and 199 WIC clinics — citation-ready for journalists, foundations, and researchers.

Feed America (EIN 92-1761881), a Candid Platinum-verified 501(c)(3) nonprofit headquartered in Houston, today reported that its public food-assistance directory at feedam.org now indexes 12,563 verified locations across Pennsylvania, spanning 1,458 distinct cities. The data is free for journalists and researchers under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 license, with a state-specific machine-readable feed available at feedam.org/atlas.json.

The Pennsylvania footprint includes 2,256 food pantries, 143 food banks, 46 soup kitchens, and 88 mobile pantries, all sourced from federal primary records (USDA Food and Nutrition Service, the Pennsylvania state WIC agency) and verified community partners. Of the food-pantry-class listings in Pennsylvania, 20 are partner-verified — meaning the operating organization has directly claimed and is actively maintaining the listing. The five Pennsylvania cities with the largest food-assistance footprints are Philadelphia (431 sites), North Philadelphia (106 sites), Pittsburgh (104 sites), Harrisburg (58 sites), Reading (45 sites).

"Food insecurity in Pennsylvania is solvable, but only if the people who need help can find the resources that already exist. Our job is to make that information impossible to miss — accurate, current, and free of charge to anyone, in any language, at any hour. The 12,563 verified Pennsylvania locations on feedam.org are a starting point, not an endpoint."
— Sharika Parkes, founder, Feed America

About the data

Each record carries a verification date, a data source attribution, and (when available) operator-confirmed hours, services, and accessibility info. Sources include:

USDA FNS SNAP Retailer Database (refreshed quarterly)
Pennsylvania state WIC agency clinic directories
HRSA Health Center Locator (FQHC sites)
USDA NSLP / SBP / SFSP datasets (school + summer meal sites)
Plentiful.org, Salvation Army USA, ampleharvest.org, and verified reader submissions for community-operated pantries

Feed America publishes the data as an HSDS 3.0 Open Referral feed at feedam.org/hsds/v3, consumed by 211 systems, Findhelp, Unite Us, and academic researchers. The Pennsylvania-specific subset is available via ?state=PA.

How residents can find help in Pennsylvania

Food in Pennsylvania now: visit feedam.org/food-help/pa or call 211 (free, 24/7)
Apply for SNAP in Pennsylvania: feedam.org/apply-snap/pa
Apply for WIC in Pennsylvania: feedam.org/apply-wic/pa
Find a Pennsylvania food pantry by city: feedam.org/food-pantry/pa
Pennsylvania hunger atlas (stats): feedam.org/atlas/pa
Pennsylvania active disasters: feedam.org/disasters/pa

About Feed America

Feed America (EIN 92-1761881) is a 501(c)(3) public charity (509(a)(1)) headquartered in Houston, Texas, operating the largest free food-assistance directory in the United States — over 196,635 verified locations across all 50 states, DC, and US territories. Candid Platinum verified. Founded 2021 by Sharika Parkes. Free to use, no login required, no paid placements, never sells user data.

Note for editors: Feed America (EIN 92-1761881) is verified by IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search. Routing always goes by EIN, not by name.

Press contact

Press inquiries: info@feedam.org
General contact: info@feedam.org
Mailing address: 13100 Wortham Center Dr, FL 3RD-1047, Houston, TX 77065
IRS verification: apps.irs.gov (EIN 92-1761881)

Cite this release

Feed America. (June 14, 2026). Feed America Hunger Atlas Now Indexes 12,563 Verified Food-Assistance Locations Across Pennsylvania.
feedam.org/press/pa.

Related Feed America surfaces

Pennsylvania Hunger Atlas — full statistical breakdown
/atlas.json — machine-readable national snapshot
/donate.json — donor metadata
Glossary — food-assistance acronym dictionary
Governance & 990 filings

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This release is generated continuously from Feed America's production database. Stats current as of 2026-06-14.