NEIGHBORS
FEEDING NEIGHBORS
Fighting Hunger in Mississippi
for fifteen years!
Our MISSION
Extra Table is a statewide, nonprofit food bank founded by well-known restaurateur Robert St. John in 2009. We fight hunger differently by fundraising to purchase new, healthy, shelf-stable food, which we deliver to our 66 food pantry and soup kitchen partners across Mississippi every month at no cost to them.
1.3 Million Pounds of Food
Distributed in 2024
18.8%
Nearly 20 percent of Mississippians face hunger every day.
63
Extra Table currently provides new, healthy food to 63 food pantry partners operating in 51 Mississippi counties.
30-50%
Mississippi food pantries have seen a 30-50% increase in need since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
1.3 MILLION
Extra Table distributed approximately 1.3 million pounds of food to food insecure neighbors
in 2024.
Our Current Food Pantry and SOup Kitchen Partners.
Working together to provide healthy food for hungry Mississippians.
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