Feeding America is a United States-based non-profit organization. It consists of a nation-wide network of more than 200 food banks and food rescue organizationsCarroll, B. Jill (2001). The savage side: reclaiming violent models of God. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 374. ISBN 0-7425-1281-9 that serve virtually every county in the United States as well as Puerto Rico. It is the nation's leading hunger-relief charity, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The current president and CEO is Vicki B. Escarra."VistaPrint and America's Second Harvest Collaborate With Procter & Gamble to Offer Exclusive Holiday Cards". 2007-10-15. Archived from the original on 2008-07-21 Feeding America was known as America's Second Harvest until August 31, 2008.http://www.secondharvest.org/about_us/feeding_america.html (For Second Harvest Toronto, see Second Harvest).

In the late 1960s, John van Hengel, a retired businessman in Phoenix, Arizona began volunteering at a local soup kitchen, and began soliciting food donations for the kitchen. He ended up with far more food than the kitchen could use in its operations. Around this time, he spoke with one of the clients, who told him that she regularly fed her family with discarded items from the grocery store's garbage bins. She told him that the food quality was fine, but that there should be a place where unwanted food could be stored and later accessed by people who needed it, similar to how banks store money.

Van Hengel began to actively solicit this unwanted food from grocery stores, local gardens, and nearby produce farms. His effort led to the creation of St. Mary's Food Bank in Phoenix, the nation's first food bank."Transitions". 2005-10-09. Archived from the original on 2008-07-21

In 1975, St. Mary's was given a federal grant to assist in developing food banks across the nation. This effort was formally incorporated into a separate non-profit organization in 1976.Patricia Sullivan (2005-10-08). "John van Hengel Dies at 83; Founded 1st Food Bank in 1967". Archived from the original on 2008-07-21

In 2001, America's Second Harvest merged with Foodchain,O'Connor, Alice; Mink, Gwendolyn (2004). Poverty in the United States: an encyclopedia of history, politics, and policy. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO. p. 389. ISBN 1-57607-597-4 at that time the nation's largest food-rescue organization.

In May 2007, it was featured on American Idol, named as a charity in the Idol Gives Back charity program."'Idol' Charity Donations Top $60M - washingtonpost.com". 2007-04-26. Archived from the original on 2008-07-21

In September 2008, the organization name was changed to Feeding America. The new name conveys the mission—providing food to Americans living with hunger—and will be supported through expansive public outreach campaigns that will raise awareness of domestic hunger and Feeding America's work.

Feeding America has an "A" rating at charitywatch.org.http://www.charitywatch.org/toprated.html

In August 2009, Columbia Records announced that all U.S. royalties from Bob Dylan's album 'Christmas in the Heart' would be donated to Feeding America, in perpetuity.

• Arkansas Foodbank Network in Little Rock, Arkansas
• Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, D.C.
• Central Illinois Foodbank in Springfield, Illinois
• Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Food Bank for the Heartland in Omaha, Nebraska
• Food Bank For New York City in New York City
• Food Bank of Delaware in Delaware
• Food Bank of Western Massachusetts in Hatfield, Massachusetts
• Food Bank of Western New York in Buffalo, New York
• Foodlink in Rochester, New York
• Good Shepherd Food Bank in Maine
• Greater Boston Food Bank in Boston, Massachusetts
• Greater Chicago Food Depository in Chicago, Illinois
• Northern Illinois Food Bank in St. Charles, Illinois
• Houston Food Bank in Houston, Texas
• North Texas Food Bank in Dallas, Texas
• Redwood Empire Food Bank in northern California
• Tarrant Area Food Bank in Fort Worth, Texas
• Kansas Food Bank in Wichita, Kansas
• God's Pantry Food Bank in Lexington, Kentucky
• Harvesters of Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri
• Food Lifeline in Shoreline, Washington
• Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley in Youngstown, Ohio
• Food Bank of the Rockies in Denver, Colorado
• Channel One Food Bank and Food Shelf Rochester, MN
• Daily Bread Food Bank in Miami, Florida
• Three Square in Southern Nevadahttp://www.threesquare.org/
• Worcester County Food Bank, Inc. in Worcester, Massachusetts
• South Jersey Food Bank
• Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohiohttp://www.secondharvestfoodbank.org/ Lorain, OH
• Food Bank of Northern Nevada in McCarran, Nevada
• Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New Yorkhttp://www.rfbneny.com/ Latham, NY