Freestore Foodbank

Name

Freestore Foodbank

Legal name

Freestore Foodbank

Website

https://freestorefoodbank.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1971

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Food Bank / Hunger Relief Services

NAICS

Community Food Services (62421)

SIC

Wholesale-Groceries, General Line (5141)

akta.pro primary industry

Food Assistance & Food Banks (BPAGAEAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Food Assistance & Nutrition Relief (Emergency Feeding) (BPAGAAAD), Food & Nutrition Assistance Programs (BPAIAKAF)

Keywords

• Food distribution services
• Hunger relief programs
• Workforce development training
• Nutrition assistance services
• Community food bank

Headquarters

HQ city

Cincinnati

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: Freestore Foodbank operates as a nonprofit organization that receives funding through charitable donations, government grants, and community support to fund food distribution and workforce development programs.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Freestore Foodbank is a nonprofit charitable organization that collects, stores, and distributes food to individuals and families experiencing food insecurity across a 20-county tri-state region around Cincinnati, Ohio. Beyond emergency food assistance, the organization delivers workforce development and culinary job-training programs, nutrition services, and on-site ACA health insurance navigation assistance through trained navigators, integrating hunger relief with economic stability support.

Product overview

Freestore Foodbank is a nonprofit organization providing a unified set of social services focused on addressing food insecurity. The organization operates as a single integrated service offering rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. Its core services include food distribution and storage operations across a 20-county region, workforce development programs with job training and culinary skills, nutrition services responding to community demand, and ACA health insurance navigation assistance. These programs work together to address both immediate food needs and longer-term economic stability for residents in the tri-state area.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Food Distribution Services

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• St. Louis Area Foodbank: Regional food bank serving a multi-county Missouri and Illinois area with food distribution and nutrition education. Directly comparable mid-sized regional foodbank operating model.
• Greater Cleveland Food Bank: Major Ohio regional food bank serving Northeast Ohio with food distribution and nutrition programs. Comparable mission, scale, and statewide Ohio operating context to Freestore.
• Greater Chicago Food Depository: Large Chicago-area food bank distributing food across a multi-county region with nutrition and workforce-adjacent programs. Comparable warehouse-based distribution model and integrated program mix.
• Midwest Food Bank: Multi-state nonprofit food bank operating distribution sites across the Midwest with a comparable model of food distribution plus volunteer-led logistics. Directly comparable to Freestore's tri-state regional footprint and warehouse-based distribution approach.
• Dare to Care Food Bank: Louisville, Kentucky-based food bank serving parts of Kentucky and Southern Indiana with food distribution and nutrition programs. Geographic and service-model peer given proximity to Freestore's tri-state service region.
• Shared Harvest Foodbank: Ohio-based foodbank serving Butler and Warren counties near Cincinnati. Directly comparable community food distribution mission and overlapping southwestern Ohio territory.
• Central Texas Food Bank: Austin-area food bank with regional distribution, nutrition programs, and social services co-location. Comparable integrated-service approach to addressing food insecurity.
• Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana: Regional Indiana food bank distributing food and operating hunger-relief programs in and around Indianapolis. Comparable in scale, mission, and tri-state regional overlap with Freestore's service territory.
• Houston Food Bank: One of the largest U.S. food banks, distributing food across a multi-county Texas region. Comparable warehouse-distribution-led model with workforce and nutrition program extensions.

Broad incumbents

• Feeding America: National network of 200+ member food banks including most regional peers; Freestore Foodbank is a member. Comparable end-mission (food insecurity relief) and wholesale-to-agency distribution mechanics, but operates as an umbrella organization rather than a single regional operator.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/FreestoreFB
• Facebookfacebook.com/FreestoreFoodbank

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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