Rescuing Food.
Feeding New York City.
We rescue surplus produce at key stages across the food supply chain and make sure it reaches high-need neighborhoods before going to waste. We've started working in NYC in 2023. We feed over a million New Yorkers annually and we're just getting started.
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The Broken Equation
47 million Americans go hungry while 123 billion perfectly good meals are thrown away every year.
Data provided from the 2025 ReFED Food Waste Report
Redirecting that surplus is a no-brainer.
This is where Sharing Excess steps up.
Impact
(2018–2026)
We have built a lean, scalable model, built to move fast and fill the gaps in the charitable food system.
280M+
Pounds of Food Rescued
232M+
Meals Provided
1B
Lbs of Upstream Emissions Diverted
$536M
Worth of Food Donated
2,000+
Distribution Partners
10M+
People Fed
Our Programs
Donating food can be difficult. We make it easy.
We rescue food at every stage of the supply chain. We move agricultural surplus directly from farms, embed inside wholesale markets alongside major distributors, and run retail rescue routes with grocers and restaurants, so perfectly good produce reaches communities instead of landfills.
Not Leftovers
Beautiful, perfectly edible produce
The food we rescue isn't damaged or expired. It's fresh, high-quality produce that can fill a major gap in the current charitable food network.
Proudly supported by leading funders and partners
The need for food donations in New York City is immense, and the demand on recovery organizations has only grown with the recent surge of migrants and families turning to community food programs. Sharing Excess shows up. They move real volume, they don’t cherry-pick the easy lots, and they aren’t afraid to do the work - sorting, repacking, and rescuing product that other partners pass over.
Joshua Gatcke
Vice President · Fruit Procurement & Sales · Nathel & Nathel, Inc.
1 in 5
NYC adults experienced food insecurity in the last year
1 in 4
NYC children live in food-insecure households
+85%
increase in food pantry visits since 2019
20
NYC community partners on our waitlist today
Sources: NYC Mayor's Office of Food Policy · Food Bank For NYC · City Harvest
ON THE GROUND · RIGHT NOW
The federal floor is dropping out. The line at the door keeps growing.
Since H.R. 1 — the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — took effect, SNAP has been quietly contracting. Expanded work requirements began phasing in on March 1, 2026, fuel and food prices have spiked since the Iran conflict, and our partner pantries are absorbing the hit. This is what we’re seeing on the Hunts Point floor and across the five boroughs week by week.
223K
New Yorkers at risk of losing SNAP under the new federal work requirements that took effect this spring.
NYC Mayor's Office, June 2026
180K+
New Yorkers statewide have dropped off SNAP rolls since January 2025 — a 6.2% decline tied to the federal overhaul, not improving conditions.
City Limits, May 2026
+54%
Increase in fuel costs for NY food bank fleets since 2025. Every dollar burned at the pump is a dollar pulled from rescue and distribution.
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern NY
20
Community organizations sitting on our NYC waitlist today — pantries telling us their shelves empty faster than they can restock.
Sharing Excess NYC ops, 2026
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Expanded SNAP work requirements under H.R. 1 began phasing in March 1. Recipients are getting cut off mid-month, missing recertification deadlines, or self-deselecting because the paperwork burden has gotten too heavy. The dollars that used to buy a week of groceries are now buying three or four days.
Diesel costs have climbed sharply since the Iran conflict, raising the price of every pallet moved and every grocery run a family makes. Hourly workers are absorbing higher commutes and higher checkout totals at the same time — and showing up at pantries that used to only see weekend visitors.
Our partners report longer lines, earlier closures, and a steady arrival of first-time visitors — full-time workers, seniors on fixed incomes, families with kids — people who were managing six months ago and aren't now. Twenty organizations are already on our waitlist asking for regular pickups we can't yet serve.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR US
Every dollar pulled from SNAP, every cent added to diesel, and every new family in the pantry line lands directly on our dock at Hunts Point.
Rescued produce is one of the fastest, highest-leverage ways to backfill what the federal safety net is taking off the table. Growing our logistical capacity right now isn’t optional — it’s the difference between a partner getting a full pallet next week or turning families away. The breakdown below is exactly what it takes to meet this moment.
Sources: NYC Mayor's Office of Food Policy · NYC Food Policy Center (Hunter College) · City Limits · Regional Food Bank of Northeastern NY · Gothamist · NYHealth Foundation testimony to NYC Council Committee on General Welfare (April 2026).
NYC Impact
2023 to Present
30.2M
lbs rescued in NYC
25M
meals made possible
224+
distribution partners
Reaching all five boroughs with fresh produce.
NYC FUNDING PARTNERS
Building a coalition of funders behind fresh food access in New York City.
We've built a growing base of philanthropic support behind the New York operation and unlocked state funding to build more durable, diversified revenue paths. We continue to prioritize efforts that sustain growth through a mix of public, philanthropic, and earned revenue.
Core program support
Expanding food access in New York City
We're seeking passionate funders to help us expand our capacity in New York City. Below are areas where funding can go straight away. We're happy to build a custom proposal around your interests.
Transportation & cold chain
The single largest cost of growing a hub. Refrigerated freight to move full-volume rescues out of Hunts Point Produce Market and from farms across New York and the Northeast into hundreds of access points across the five boroughs. Every dollar here directly converts into pounds of food on the road.
Space inside Hunts Point Produce Market
Securing a larger warehouse with expanded cold storage gives us the physical capacity to receive, store, and hold significantly more produce without spoilage. We could roughly double our capacity and give volunteers more room to work safely and efficiently.
Leadership & development
Hiring a Chief Development Officer and an Executive Director for New York operations gives us the leadership to deepen donor relationships, manage day-to-day growth, and build real partnerships with city agencies and community organizations across the five boroughs.
Food purchase budget
A dedicated fund to buy food when rescue alone can't meet the moment, balancing variety so meals are more culturally appropriate and providing consistency when the market shifts (tariffs, gas prices, supply shocks), so no partner organization has to go without.
Our Vision
Close the produce gap in America.
Over half of the meal gap in America is fresh produce. It's the most perishable, the hardest to rescue at scale, and the most nutrient dense food you can put on a family's table. Sharing Excess is building the national infrastructure to move billions of pounds of surplus produce from farms and wholesalers into the communities that need it most.
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Technology
Everything Integrated on One Platform
We have built one of the best operational technologies for running food rescue at scale. Our platform provides full data tracking and visibility on every rescue, the climate impact it creates, and how much money our food business partners are saving.
Thank You
Thank you for taking the time to learn about our work in New York City. None of it is possible without the generous, compassionate people we partner with every day. We're inspired by the donors we meet, the communities we serve, and the farmers, wholesalers, and organizations who make food rescue possible at this scale.
The need in the five boroughs has never been higher, and we have the capacity to do so much more here. I would love to sit down with you one on one to understand how we can partner to create a New York City without food insecurity.
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