The North Texas Food Bank is the hunger-relief hub for Dallas and the 12 counties around it. From its Perot Family Campus in Plano it provides more than 100 million meals a year through a network of 500-plus partner pantries and agencies. Trisha Cunningham has led it as President and CEO since 2017. It holds a four-star Charity Navigator rating, and it coordinates with the Tarrant Area Food Bank so that the Dallas-Fort Worth metro is covered without overlap.
NTFB operates at warehouse scale out of its Plano campus, sourcing food from donors, retailers, and growers and pushing it out to more than 500 partner pantries and feeding programs across North Texas. It does not hand food to individuals at its headquarters; it supplies the local agencies that do. That structure is what lets it move more than 100 million meals a year across a 12-county area.
It also runs targeted programs for children and seniors, the two groups for whom a missed meal does the most lasting damage.
Trisha Cunningham has been President and CEO since 2017. She came from Texas Instruments, where she spent three decades and served as Chief Citizenship Officer, and she has been recognized on the Dallas 500 list of the region’s most influential leaders. Under her, NTFB completed its move to the purpose-built Perot Family Campus, which expanded capacity well beyond the old facility.
The 12-county service area centers on Dallas County, which has one of the largest food-insecure populations of any county in the country. NTFB and the Fort Worth-based Tarrant Area Food Bank divide the wider Dallas-Fort Worth metro between them; together their service areas counted well over a million food-insecure residents in recent estimates.
Yes. NTFB is a 501(c)(3) and Feeding America member with a four-star Charity Navigator rating, the top mark, and it has appeared on national rankings of large, well-run charities. Its scale and bulk purchasing mean a single dollar produces several meals.
Giving and volunteering both run through ntfb.org. Money is the most efficient gift because of bulk buying, but the warehouse also depends on volunteers to sort and pack, and on food and fund drives from local businesses.
Texas is covered by several very large regional food banks. The Houston Food Bank is the largest in the country by pounds distributed; NTFB anchors the Dallas side of the DFW metro while the Tarrant Area Food Bank covers Fort Worth and the western counties. For anyone in the Dallas area, NTFB is the central organization to support.
500+ pantries and agencies receive food across 12 counties.
School-based and weekend food programs for kids at risk of hunger.
Monthly food assistance for older adults on fixed incomes.
Help eligible families apply for federal food benefits.
Sources: North Texas Food Bank website (ntfb.org), Charity Navigator (EIN 75-1785357), and reporting from KERA and D Magazine on leadership and the Perot Family Campus. We are not affiliated with North Texas Food Bank and receive no compensation for this listing. Spotted an error? [email protected]
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