2025 Food Insecurity Grant

Grants Help Feed Hungry Students

We're proud to announce that in our first year of this program, INAPEF members across the state were awarded $16,000 in grants to address food insecurity among students. With the generous support of our partners, we can help ensure that even more children have access to nutritious meals in 2026! Please join us in the fight against food insecurity in Indiana's public schools!

The following education foundations were selected as grant recipients in 2025:

Anderson ($4,000)
Indian Creek ($4,000)
Brownsburg ($2,000)
Franklin Township ($2,000)
Pike Township ($2,000)
Wayne Township ($2,000)

Highlighted among this year’s projects is Franklin Township Education Foundation’s Little Free Pantry, which combines access to food and books in discreet outdoor structures built, designed, and maintained by students. The program not only addresses food insecurity but also promotes literacy, student leadership, and community engagement.

By bringing together different student groups, education foundations, and the wider community, these grants help close the food insecurity gap in ways that are sustainable, creative, and deeply impactful.

2025

Donation goal

Collected:	$17,350.00
Goal:	$25,000.00

69%

Did you Know?

Children facing food insecurity often do worse in school. Food insecurity negatively affects their ability to concentrate and achieve academically.
Children facing food insecurity often struggle with social and behavioral problems. Without proper nutrition, they have less energy for complex social interactions, cannot effectively adapt to environmental stress and often feel physically unwell.

Indiana Hunger Statistics

1 in 9 (10.8%) Hoosiers and 1 in 7 (14.4%) children are food insecure.
25% of Marion County residents are food insecure.
The highest child food insecurity rate is found in Fayette County at 26.1 percent
32 percent of Indiana’s food insecure have income above 185 percent of the Federal Poverty Level and are being served only by charitable hunger relief efforts as they are ineligible for federal nutrition programs.

Thank you Sponsors!

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C&T Design & Equipment
Moake Park Group
Reitano Design Group
The Skillman Corporation
Tecton Construction Management

2024 Food Insecurity Grant Recipients

Indiana Association of Public Education Foundations is a 501(c)6 non-profit organization.