Over 100 Organizations have received Shipt’s Community Impact Grants: Here are the Latest.
At a Glance: Shipt 2026 Community Impact Grants
Milestone Funding: Shipt has now awarded 100 Community Impact Grants, totaling over $1.6 million since launching the initiative in 2022.
2026 Cohort: The newest round provides funding to 18 fresh food organizations across the country, consisting of 12 new grantees and 6 grant renewals across Mobile Markets, Teaching Farms, and Food Hubs.
Cumulative Community Impact: Since 2022, Shipt-supported organizations have supplied over 5.3 million meals and served nearly 1.2 million food-insecure individuals.
This year, Shipt is proud to mark a milestone of 100 Community Impact grants given, totaling over $1.6 million to date. Today we’re excited to share the 18 Mobile Markets, Teaching Farms, and Food Hubs are added to this list of local solutions helping to bridge the gap between fresh food sources and the more than 48 million people across the country experiencing food insecurity.
Mobile Markets, Teaching Farms, and Food Hubs act as critical anchors in communities to bridge gaps and introduce neighbors to local food sources. From providing hands-on education to connecting local farmers with new local market opportunities, this cohort of Shipt grantees are all helping to ensure that fresh, nutritious food is accessible regardless of zip code.
There’s no single solution to solving food insecurity and every community’s needs are different, which is why we’re proud to support organizations throughout various stages of their journey.
Seed Tier: One year of funding up to $10,000
Growth Tier: One year of funding up to $20,000
Rooted Tier: Two years of funding up to $35,000 annually
We believe that at Shipt, we’re uniquely positioned to leverage our logistical infrastructure to connect people to food and invest in the local organizations doing the work on the ground.
“Shipt continues to remain focused on investing in the communities we serve, and we believe that we can do that best by investing in those already nearest to their neighbors,” said Shipt VP of Culture and Community Khadijah Abdullah. “Community organizations across our country are partnering to feed their neighbors and localize their food sources. We’re proud to play a small part in scaling that impact to help build healthier, more resilient communities.”
Grant Recipients
In addition to the 12 Teaching Farms, Mobile Markets, and Food Hubs receiving new grants from Shipt this year, six past grantees will receive a second year of support to deepen their impact. These organizations – from New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area to Denver, Boston, and D.C., continue to scale and innovate their food access programming.
Read more below on how Shipt’s grants will support these local organizations:
Seed Tier
Grow Jackson
Location: Jackson, Michigan
Impact: Shipt funds will support the purchase of a Mobile Market vehicle, the final capital component needed to launch Grow Jackson’s Mobile Market.
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Impact: Shipt funds will enable Good Agricultural Practices training curriculum design and implementation costs to support additional onboarding of farmers into the Fountain Heights Farms Cooperative Food Hub ecosystem.
Saginaw Community Food Club & Kitchen
Location: Saginaw, Michigan
Impact: Shipt funds will help with purchasing raised beds for the garden, increasing fresh produce supply in areas with limited traditional grocery options.
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Impact: Shipt funds will cover essential maintenance, walkways, hydroponic startup supplies, and summer camp programming to support hands-on learning for students in grades 3-5.
Growth Tier
City Blossoms
Location: Washington, D.C.
Impact: Shipt funds will sustain free afterschool programs focused on food systems education, field trips and community events. They will also cover staff time and support the launch of a new community-based youth garden by 2028.
City Colleges of Chicago Foundation
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Impact: Shipt funds will support tuition waivers for Urban Agriculture students and help them purchase essential year-round food production and packaging supplies.
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Impact: Shipt’s funds will cover direct costs of launching two new neighborhood markets, including fleet fuel and maintenance, occupancy at new sites, market equipment and supplies, multilingual community outreach, staff training, and logistics coordination.
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Impact: Shipt funds will offset the annual costs of NetSuite, a warehouse management system, which will increase logistics capacity and improve inventory visibility and reporting for hunger relief partners.
Location: New York, New York
Impact: Shipt funds will provide vital salary support for youth farmers and their Farm Education Manager, which will facilitate hands-on agriculture education and direct pipelines to higher education and green careers.
Location: Austin, Texas
Impact: Shipt funds will supply essential teaching farm infrastructure and cover critical interpreter expenses.
Rooted Tier
Food Access LA
Location: Los Angeles, California
Impact: Shipt funds will support activating a newly approved online SNAP EBT (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) capability to to better meet community needs, deepen farmer sales, and broaden food access.
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Impact: Shipt’s funds will cover retrofitting and repairing a donated step van and expanding food hub infrastructure to support increased product volume.
Grant Renewals
Fresh Approach
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California
Impact: Shipt funds will support a healthcare-referred digital food access pilot.
Location: Denver, Colorado
Impact: Shipt’s investment will fund staff, food recovery expenses, and vital technology upgrades for the organization’s mobile markets.
Location: New York, New York
Impact: Shipt funds will be used for directly sustaining vital staff capacity and essential hydroponic growing supplies during a critical educator transition period.
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Impact: Shipt funds will elevate the Power Plant Farm’s 10th anniversary by expanding its capacity as a fully accessible teaching farm, outfitting the space with weatherproof educational signage, raised-bed interpretive displays, a community mural, and virtual farm tours.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Impact: Shipt funds will provide Garden Manager salary support, help purchase growing supplies, and cover critical distribution vehicle expenses.
West Valley Community Services
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California
Impact: Shipt funds will directly power a custom fleet of mobile food trucks that deliver groceries and essential case management to the doorsteps of two high-need Title 1 schools.
About Shipt’s Impact
Since 2022, Shipt-supported organizations have supplied over 5.3 million meals and served nearly 1.2 million food-insecure individuals. Earlier this year, Shipt and Target partnered to invest even further in community food solutions with their Garden Grants initiative, which helped start and revitalize 50 community gardens in cities across the country.