Peninsula Food Runners, Inc.

Peninsula Food Runners is a volunteer-led 501(c)(3) that coordinates daily food rescue and redistribution across the San Francisco Peninsula and South Bay. The organization combines a large volunteer network with technology to pick up surplus prepared and packaged food from corporate cafeterias, caterers, and other donors and deliver it at no cost to community organizations that serve people experiencing food insecurity. In recent years Peninsula Food Runners has scaled substantially: according to the organization it delivered multiple millions of meals and diverted millions of pounds of food from landfill in 2024, and it has continued busy operations through 2025 and into 2026, responding to spikes in need. The organization reports multi‑million dollar annual revenues and expenses consistent with a mid‑sized, donor‑facing food‑rescue nonprofit that relies on volunteer drivers, a small paid staff, corporate partners, and community grants. Peninsula Food Runners serves hundreds of recipient organizations (soup kitchens, shelters, pantries, schools and low‑income housing sites), emphasizes efficiency (low cost per meal), and positions food rescue as both an anti‑hunger and climate mitigation activity by keeping edible food out of landfills.