Thank You for Your Generosity!
We believe every kid has the right to a full plate. In 2025, generous supporters made that right a reality by helping schools and community organizations provide meals for millions of kids across the country. No Kid Hungry and our partners also advocated for children and families, ensuring that access to food is guaranteed for every child, 365 days a year.
Fueling Kids' Futures
No Kid Hungry’s success wouldn’t be possible without the tireless heroes on the ground who deliver healthy meals to children every day. And thanks to the support of generous donors, we’re continuing to strengthen and advocate for vital nutrition programs that keep kids fed, and we’re able to invest in areas of greatest opportunity that improve economic stability for families.
With the help of our dynamic partners – including schools, community organizations like food banks, and state agencies, we are there to help make sure every child has a full belly and a bright future. We do this work through grants, partnerships, and sharing lessons and resources to further school breakfast programs, we ensure summer meals reach kids in rural communities, and we help families sign up for and use benefit programs.
During the school year, our goal is to ensure eligible kids start their day with a healthy school breakfast. Thanks to you, nearly $1.3 million supported expanded access to school breakfast in 43 school districts across 12 states. We also invested more than $6 million in grant funds to support summer grocery benefits and summer feeding programs in rural communities.
And we do more than meals.
Advocating for Kids
We’re not just in the classroom or school cafeteria. We are active in Washington, D.C. and in state capitals across the country working to change the foundational issues that cause childhood hunger. And we’ve had some big wins this year.
- Your support helped us increase the power of mayors to end childhood hunger by launching the Mayors Action Fund to increase local food access and family economic mobility in local communities. These grants will support activities aligned with Mayors’ strengths to end hunger — projects related to Summer EBT, flexible, free meals in rural communities, benefits integration and family tax credits — led by some of the more than 560 Republican, Democratic and Independent members of the Mayors Alliance to End Childhood Hunger.
- We’re thrilled that summer meals were offered in all 120 counties in Kentucky this summer! Expanding summer meals access to all counties was a huge feat, but thanks to collaboration between our state partner, Feeding Kentucky, the Department of Education, and summer meals sponsors on the ground, the four counties that were without access last summer had access to nutritious summer meals this year.
- Our first Medicaid Food Security Network Summit convened 170 food security advocates and healthcare representatives, sharing best practices and identifying gaps and barriers to connecting eligible families to federal nutrition programs through Medicaid. This includes helping Medicaid systems close SNAP and WIC enrollment gaps; informing state and federal policy change; and providing grants, policy tools and technical assistance.
1 in 5 Kids Still Faces Hunger
Even with great progress, 1 in 5 children still faces hunger in America today. We are prioritizing these four key initiatives to help reduce childhood hunger:
- School Breakfast. We’re continuing to partner with schools and community organizations to increase student participation in school breakfast, so kids can start each day with a nutritious meal, ready to learn. Our goal is to ensure that 40% of eligible kids start their day with a healthy school breakfast.
- Summer Meals. We know that ending summer hunger has enormous health, education and economic benefits for kids and families, which is why closing the summer hunger gap is one of our top priorities. We’re making sure families can maximize their grocery buying power by providing grant funding to support the implementation of Summer EBT. We’re also expanding the reach of flexible, free meals in hard-to-reach rural communities, so families can access multiple days’ worth of meals through pick-up and delivery services.
- Nutrition Benefits Access. Millions of families in the United States rely on assistance programs like SNAP and WIC that help parents feed their children. Our goal is to improve the systems that children rely on – and help more families enroll for benefits. To date, nearly $240 million in annual nutrition benefits have been unlocked in the 10 states and communities participating in our Coordinating SNAP & Nutrition Supports partnership with the American Public Human Services Association.
- Family Economic Mobility. We’re continuing to advocate for policies that reduce the root causes of hunger and investing in programs that increase income, expand access to resources and create long-term financial stability for families – especially single moms. This includes continuing to support state-level policies, such as increasing the child tax credit – a proven strategy for boosting the financial stability of hundreds of thousands of single mothers.
Childhood hunger is a crisis we can solve – but only if we act together. As we continue to move the needle on these top priorities, we need your help. Every $1 can help provide 10 meals* for kids in your community and across the country. Will you help feed kids today with a donation to support our work?
*Your donations help support programs that feed kids; No Kid Hungry does not provide individual meals. Meal equivalencies vary. Learn more at NoKidHungry.org/OneDollar.
