About Us

What Is the Tri-Cities Food Bank?

The Tri-Cities Food Bank provides emergency food to the needy residents of Benton City, Kennewick, Finley, Richland, and West Richland.

The Tri-Cities Food Bank, founded in 1975 & is a nonprofit agency.  This organization has more than 100 volunteers who have donated more than 30,000 hours collecting and distributing food to low-income people. Our volunteers collect food 365 days of the year.  Because we are an all volunteer organization, we have never paid a salary since our founding.

Food Bank Facts

Annually we serve more than 40,000 families.  On average more than 20 tons of food are distributed weekly and about 40% of the people served by the Tri-Cities Food Bank are children.