Palm Beach Harvest

What Palm Beach Harvest does

Palm Beach Harvest is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1998 and headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. Its stated mission is to rescue surplus food and redistribute it through community programs and partner agencies to people facing hunger. The organization operates with a small team of 1–10 employees and serves the local West Palm Beach market; no additional programmatic scale metrics (pounds of food rescued, meals served, agency count) are disclosed in the available data.

The business model is that of a traditional community-based food rescue non-profit: the organization presumably acquires surplus food from donors (grocery retailers, restaurants, farms, and similar sources) and channels it through a network of partner agencies and community programs that perform last-mile distribution to food-insecure individuals. Revenue mechanics are not disclosed but, as a 501(c)(3), the organization would be funded through a mix of donations, grants, and potentially in-kind contributions rather than commercial sales. No pricing model, technology platform, or proprietary logistics tooling is described in the available data — the website at palmbeachharvest.org returned only a verification/loading page during data collection, so no technical architecture or product surface can be characterized.

There is no information in the input data about funding history, leadership team, board composition, partner agency roster, geographic coverage beyond West Palm Beach, programmatic KPIs, or recent operational changes. As a result, any assessment of organizational momentum, financial scale, or strategic direction is constrained by material data gaps.

Name

Palm Beach Harvest

Website

https://palmbeachharvest.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Palm Beach Harvest is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1998 in West Palm Beach, Florida, that rescues surplus food and redistributes it through partner agencies and community programs to people facing hunger. It operates with 1–10 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hunger Relief and Food Rescue Services

NAICS

Community Food Services (62421)

akta.pro primary industry

Food Assistance & Nutrition Relief (Emergency Feeding) (BPAGAAAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems (Fair Trade, Food Access, Regenerative) (BPAGALAD), Food Waste Reduction & Diversion Services (Donation, Animal Feed, Source Reduction Programs) (EUAIAEAH), Food & Nutrition Assistance Programs (BPAIAKAF)

Keywords

• Food rescue
• Surplus food recovery
• Hunger relief
• Community food distribution
• Nonprofit food bank

Headquarters

HQ city

West Palm Beach

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Core offering

Palm Beach Harvest rescues surplus food and distributes it through community programs and partner agencies to people facing hunger. The organization serves as a local food recovery intermediary, channeling edible surplus from donors to community-based hunger relief programs in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Food Rescue and Redistribution Program Core program that rescues surplus food and redistributes it through community programs and partner agencies to people facing hunger in the Palm Beach County area.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• Feeding America: Largest hunger-relief organization in the United States, operating a nationwide network of food banks and food-rescue programs. Functions as an umbrella incumbent that sets standards, aggregates donations, and routes resources through affiliate food banks — many of which (including regional peers of Palm Beach Harvest) operate rescue programs.
• Meals on Wheels America: National network of community-based programs delivering meals to seniors and other at-risk populations. Overlaps with Palm Beach Harvest in food-distribution-to-vulnerable-populations and partner-agency channels, though focused on prepared meal delivery rather than surplus rescue.

Direct peers

• Food Rescue US: National non-profit focused specifically on direct food rescue, connecting surplus food from donors to local agencies and individuals via a volunteer-driven model. Directly comparable to Palm Beach Harvest's rescue-and-redistribute approach, though operating at a national scale.
• Feeding South Florida: Feeding America affiliate serving Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties; operates food rescue, food banking, and distribution through partner agencies — the most direct regional peer to Palm Beach Harvest, operating in overlapping South Florida geography with a similar model.

Regional players

• Food Forward: Southern California-based food rescue non-profit that recovers surplus produce and prepared food and redistributes it to partner agencies. Operates the same rescue-through-partner-agency model as Palm Beach Harvest but serves the Los Angeles region.
• City Harvest: New York City's largest food rescue organization, rescuing surplus food and delivering it free to hundreds of soup kitchens and pantries. Closely mirrors Palm Beach Harvest's model but operates in a different (and much larger) metropolitan geography.
• Foodbank of the Rockies: Regional food bank serving Colorado and Wyoming, distributing food through pantries and partner agencies and operating food-rescue programs. Similar hybrid food-bank-plus-rescue model serving a defined geographic catchment.
• Philabundance: Greater Philadelphia region's largest hunger-relief organization, combining food banking with direct rescue and distribution through partner agencies. Comparable rescue-plus-distribution model, geographically distinct.

Emerging players

• FoodCloud: Ireland-based social enterprise connecting retail food donors with charities via a technology platform; has expanded into the UK and other markets. Comparable mission of redirecting surplus food to community organizations, with a heavier emphasis on a tech-enabled matching platform.
• Rock & Wrap It Up!: Anti-hunger non-profit that aggregates surplus food from entertainment venues, hospitality, and corporate events and routes it to local pantries and agencies. Operates a more niche donor-source model (events/entertainment surplus) but shares the rescue-and-redistribute-through-agencies approach.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/palm-beach-harvest-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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