Feeding America’s ‘Map the Meal Gap’

Feeding America’s mission is to advance change in America by ensuring fair access to nutritious food for all as part of a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks, 22 statewide food bank associations and 60,000 agency partners, food pantries and meal programs, as well as policymakers, supporters and the communities they serve.

Since 2011, Feeding America has produced the Map the Meal Gap study, providing estimates of local food insecurity and food costs on an annual basis to better understand people and places facing hunger and to inform decisions and actions that will help achieve their mission – by generating national and local data about food insecurity, translating those data into insights and tools like the interactive map below, and engaging partners to help them use and improve our data and research in the future.