Feeding Tampa Bay covers ten counties along Florida’s Gulf Coast, from Citrus and Hernando in the north down through Hillsborough and Pinellas to Sarasota, Charlotte, and DeSoto. As part of the Feeding Florida and Feeding America networks, it is usually one of the first organizations moving food when a hurricane hits this stretch of coast. Thomas Mantz serves as President and CEO. The headquarters is on Causeway Boulevard in Tampa.
Feeding Tampa Bay sources food at scale and moves it across ten counties through partner agencies and its own programs. Its location shapes its work: this part of the Gulf Coast is hit by hurricanes regularly, so the organization is built to surge food into disaster zones quickly, on top of the steady year-round distribution that addresses ordinary food insecurity.
It has also invested in fresh and prepared food and in larger-format community sites that combine groceries with other services, part of the broader move in food banking beyond canned goods alone.
Thomas Mantz serves as President and CEO. He has been a visible regional voice on hunger and on the organization’s long-term strategy of building a system that aims at ending hunger rather than only managing it, including a vision of food as a foundation for health and opportunity.
The ten-county service area covers Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Hernando, Citrus, Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte, Hardee, and DeSoto. It mixes the dense Tampa-St. Petersburg metro with rural inland counties and retiree-heavy coastal communities, each with its own pattern of need, and all of it exposed to hurricane season.
Yes. Feeding Tampa Bay is a 501(c)(3) and a member of Feeding America and Feeding Florida. Donors can review its financials through GuideStar and Charity Navigator. Its supply leans on donated product and bulk purchasing, so gifts convert into many meals.
Donations and volunteer shifts run through feedingtampabay.org. Volunteers are especially important during disaster response, and cash gifts give the organization the flexibility to buy exactly what is needed when a storm hits.
Under the Feeding Florida umbrella, Feeding Tampa Bay covers the Gulf Coast, Second Harvest of Central Florida covers the Orlando region, and Feeding South Florida covers the southeast. For anyone in the Tampa Bay region or the surrounding Gulf counties, Feeding Tampa Bay is the lead organization.
Agencies across ten Gulf Coast counties receive food.
First-responder surge distribution during hurricanes.
Produce and kitchen meals alongside shelf-stable goods.
Larger-format locations that pair food with other services.
Sources: Feeding Tampa Bay website (feedingtampabay.org), GuideStar (EIN 59-2116576, listed as Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc), and the organization’s published service area and strategy. We are not affiliated with Feeding Tampa Bay and receive no compensation for this listing. Spotted an error? [email protected]
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