Community Servings

What Community Servings does

Community Servings is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1990 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, that delivers medically tailored, scratch-made meals to critically and chronically ill individuals across Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Meals are designed by registered dietitian nutritionists who customize each plan to the client's primary diagnosis, co-occurring conditions, and medication considerations, with the goal of providing approximately 67% of daily nutrition using whole, fresh, and locally sourced ingredients wherever possible. The organization operates a HIPAA-compliant program and, since 2014, has contracted with healthcare payers including Medicaid managed care organizations, Senior Care Options plans, One Care plans, Accountable Care Organizations, and home-based clinical pilots serving high-cost, high-needs patients.

The business model is hybrid. Roughly half of operating support flows from healthcare payer contracts and program revenue, while the remainder comes from charitable giving channels including the 33-year-old Pie in the Sky fundraiser, monthly Meal Maker programs, planned giving, and corporate and foundation grants. Production capacity exceeds 20,000 medically tailored meals per week, supported by a volunteer base described as one of Boston's largest and by the Teaching Kitchen, a free 12-week foodservice job-training program that places 84% of graduates in jobs retained for at least 30 days. Adjacent programs include Nutrition Education, Pediatric Health, Pregnancy Health, the Local Foods Initiative, and TK Eats, a consumer-facing prepared foods social enterprise.

The organization's competitive position is anchored by a substantial evidence base, including peer-reviewed studies in Health Affairs, JAMA Internal Medicine, and Nature Medicine that document reductions in hospitalizations, ED visits, and total healthcare costs among Medicaid recipients of its meals. Research and policy advocacy are concentrated in the AMPL Institute, which produces an annual national Food is Medicine report and partners with Harvard Law School, Tufts University, UMass Chan Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Community Servings is accredited by the Food is Medicine Coalition, holds GuideStar and Charity Navigator high ratings, and operates as an independent nonprofit with no disclosed parent, private equity, or venture capital ownership.

Name

Community Servings

Legal name

Community Servings, Inc.

Website

https://servings.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Community Servings is a Boston-area 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1990 that provides home-delivered, dietitian-customized medically tailored meals to critically and chronically ill individuals across Massachusetts and Rhode Island, funded through healthcare payer contracts and charitable donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Medically Tailored Meal Services

NAICS

Community Food Services (624210), Food Service Contractors (72231), Caterers (722320)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Home Health Care Services (8082)

akta.pro primary industry

Meal Preparation, Nutrition Support & Feeding Assistance (HLADAGAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Medical Nutrition Therapy (Registered Dietitian) (HSADAFAE)

Keywords

• Medically tailored meals
• Home-delivered meals
• Food is medicine
• Nutrition services
• Meal delivery nonprofit

Headquarters

HQ city

Jamaica Plain

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations and Philanthropy: Community Servings relies heavily on charitable donations from individuals, corporations, and foundations to fund meal programs. The organization offers various giving options including monthly Meal Maker programs, planned giving, corporate partnerships, and one-time donations.
2. Healthcare Payer Contracts: Since 2014, Community Servings has partnered with healthcare payers including Medicaid managed care programs, Senior Care Options, One Care plans, Accountable Care Organizations, and pilot programs for home-based clinical services. Meals are provided to qualifying patients with healthcare costs offset through these contracts.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Community Servings provides medically tailored, scratch-made, home-delivered meals customized by registered dietitian nutritionists to address each client's primary medical condition, co-occurring illnesses, and medication considerations. Meals are designed to provide 67% of daily nutrition and are delivered at no cost to qualifying critically and chronically ill individuals across Massachusetts and Rhode Island, funded through charitable donations and contracted healthcare payer relationships.

Product overview

Community Servings offers a portfolio of programs centered around medically tailored meals (MTM) — scratch-made, home-delivered meals customized by registered dietitian nutritionists for individuals with critical and chronic illnesses. The core offering is the Medically Tailored Meals program, supplemented by Nutrition Education services. The organization operates two distinct social enterprises: TK Eats (gourmet prepared foods prepared by Teaching Kitchen trainees) and the Teaching Kitchen (a 12-week job training program). Additional programs include Pediatric Health, Pregnancy Health, and the Local Foods Initiative. The AMPL Institute serves as the research and policy arm, producing annual Food is Medicine reports and advancing health policy advocacy. The organization also offers a recipe repository featuring hundreds of healthy recipes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AMPL Institute: The Access to Medically Tailored Nutrition Through Policy and Leadership (AMPL) Institute is Community Servings' policy and research division that produces annual national Food is Medicine reports, conducts cutting-edge research, and advocates for the integration of medically tailored nutrition into the U.S. healthcare system.
• TK Eats
• Pie in the Sky

Products and services

• Medically Tailored Meals (MTM) Home-delivered, scratch-made meals tailored to individual medical and nutritional needs, designed to provide 67% of daily nutrition for chronically and critically ill individuals including those with HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, kidney disease, and cardiovascular disease.
• Nutrition Education

Quantifiable outcome

• 31% fewer hospitalizations and 20% fewer emergency department visits for Medicaid patients receiving medically tailored meals
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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AI maturity

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Integration2 records

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Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• ScrubaDubminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 4 November 2025ScrubaDub, a New England car wash company, partnered with Community Servings for the 33rd annual 'Pie in the Sky' fundraiser. Customers can donate or purchase pies while receiving free car washes with pumpkin spice scent upgrades. The partnership has raised over $283,000 and donated more than 56,000 meals over nine years.
• Room and BoardminorOthers · 17 April 2019Room and Board generously donated furniture for Community Servings' new building. Stylish, modern furniture can be found in reception areas on the second and third floors and on the rooftop terrace.
• The Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation at Harvard Law SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommunity Servings partnered with the Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School to launch the Massachusetts Food is Medicine State Plan. The plan aims to increase access to medically tailored Food is Medicine interventions across the state by convening healthcare providers, payers, and policy leaders.
• Massachusetts Department of Public HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with researchers at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health on a study evaluating the Food Is Medicine approach on health outcomes, funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Evidence for Action program.
• Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with researchers at the Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital on healthcare utilization research examining the impact of medically tailored meals on hospitalizations and medical spending.
• Massachusetts General HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with Massachusetts General Hospital on health insurance claims data study examining the impact of medically tailored meals on healthcare costs. Study published in Health Affairs.
• Commonwealth Care AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with Commonwealth Care Alliance on a study evaluating the impact of medically tailored meals provided through health insurance. Study looked at healthcare claims data of CCA patients who received medically tailored meals compared against control groups.
• Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-led landmark Nature Medicine study with the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University, analyzing claims data for nearly 2,000 Medicaid members receiving medically tailored meals from Community Servings.
• UMass Chan Medical SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with UMass Chan Medical School on the landmark Nature Medicine study, the largest evaluation to date of the impact of medically tailored meals authorized through a Medicaid Section 1115 demonstration program.
• AMPL Institute at Community ServingscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe AMPL Institute (Access to Medically Tailored Nutrition Through Policy and Leadership) is an internal institute at Community Servings that conducts food is medicine research, culinary medicine education, and health policy advocacy.
• Food is Medicine CoalitioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommunity Servings is a member of the Food is Medicine Coalition (FIMC), a coalition of nonprofit medically tailored food and nutrition services providers from across the country advocating for public policy supporting access to food and nutrition services for people with critical and chronic illnesses.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• God's Love We Deliver: NYC-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides medically tailored, home-delivered meals to people living with serious illness, including HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other chronic diseases. Direct peer to Community Servings with nearly identical FIMC-accredited model, payer relationships, and volunteer-driven home delivery.
• Project Open Hand: San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit providing meals, groceries, and nutrition services to seniors and individuals living with critical and chronic illnesses. Closest geographic analog to Community Servings on the West Coast with the same FIMC affiliation and registered-dietitian-driven medically tailored meal model.
• MANNA: Philadelphia-based nonprofit providing 21 medically tailored meals per week to individuals with serious illnesses across the greater Philadelphia region. Direct peer with comparable FIMC accreditation, Medicaid contract structure, and client base of critically/chronically ill individuals.
• Moveable Feast: Maryland-based nonprofit delivering medically tailored meals to people with chronic and critical illnesses on the Eastern Shore and across the state. FIMC-accredited peer with similar payer-contract model, home delivery operations, and focus on food as medicine.
• Food & Friends: Washington, D.C. nonprofit delivering medically tailored meals, groceries, and nutrition counseling to people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other serious illnesses. FIMC member with home-delivery model and payer relationships directly comparable to Community Servings.
• Mom's Meals (PurFoods): Largest for-profit provider of medically tailored meals in the U.S., serving Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, and dual-eligible members nationwide. Direct competitor to Community Servings on the payer side, but with national scale, centralized production, and venture capital backing that materially exceeds any single FIMC nonprofit.

Emerging players

• Epicured: For-profit medically tailored meal provider focused on gastrointestinal and chronic disease conditions, serving healthcare systems and payers in select U.S. markets. Emerging competitor with a more condition-specific (e.g., FODMAP, IBD, oncology) menu approach and digital health integrations.
• Modify Health: For-profit provider of medically tailored, condition-specific meals (low-FODMAP, gluten-free, Mediterranean, diabetes, renal) and lifestyle interventions, working with health systems, payers, and employers. Emerging for-profit peer targeting overlapping payer contracts and chronic-condition patient populations.

Regional players

• Open Hand Atlanta: Atlanta-based nonprofit providing medically tailored meals and nutrition services to Georgians living with chronic and critical illnesses. FIMC member with comparable mission and model, but operating exclusively in Georgia and therefore a regional rather than direct competitor to Community Servings' MA/RI footprint.

Broad incumbents

• Sodexo (Healthcare Division): Global food services and facilities management company with a large healthcare division that delivers patient meal services, retail food, and increasingly medically tailored nutrition programs to hospitals and senior living operators. Broad incumbent that competes on the B2B food service contract side and is increasingly entering the MTM space through health system partnerships.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

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Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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