When you donate to RVFB, your money goes primarily to our food budget. Our local, national and government partnerships and subsidies allow us to buy more food with $1 than you are able to at the grocery store. We stretch your dollars far and make your donation count!

Close relationships with our food bank guests help us to understand what specific kinds of healthy and ethnic foods are needed to feed local families. We serve a very diverse community of people from all over the world.

Questions about how RVFB operates?

Please email info@rvfb.org

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Donations by check may be sent to:Rainier Valley Food Bank

4205 Rainier Ave S

Seattle, WA 98118

Food Donations

Because we can stretch dollars through our partnerships, Rainier Valley Food Bank encourages fundraising food drives that raise money for food. We have great experience helping schools, faith groups, and individuals create new, exciting and effective fundraising food drives. Ask us how and we’ll be happy to help!

Food Donation Hours:

Tuesday – Saturday, 8 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

We will gladly pick up bulk donations upon arrangement.

For questions or to arrange a pick up:

(206) 723-4105 or email info@rvfb.org.

Helpful Donations:

Rice & pasta

Cooking oil

Fish sauce

Soy sauce

Diabetic foods

Diapers sizes 4 and up

Infant formula

Canned chicken, SPAM & tuna

Soy, rice or almond milk

Cold cereal

Gluten-free foods

Injera bread or flour

Canned soups

Canned vegetables

Canned fruits

Canned tomatoes

Reusable grocery bags

Farm & Garden Donations:

RVFB strives to provide a variety of fresh, locally sourced produce as well as seeds and plant starts to encourage home growing. We gladly accept small and large amounts of produce from home gardens, p-patches or farms.

Please keep the following in mind when donating produce:

The less handling before it gets into our client grocery bags, the better!

Please try to donate produce in containers that the food bank can keep. Use of our crates can also be arranged, so that produce can be harvested and distributed from the same receptacle.

Please, no mushy, molding or close to over-ripe produce.

We will need to compost anything that is not fresh & edible. When gauging the quality and lifecycle of your donation, please keep that in mind that the food bank pays for food waste removal.

The Seattle Community Farm at Rainier Vista and the Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands are great examples, growing produce to specifically meet the diets of our major ethnic groups served.

Food Industry Donations:

RVFB accepts all shapes and sizes of produce, dry-stored, refrigerated, and non-perishable or frozen food and non-food items. We are happy to pick up bulk food donations. Businesses are protected from liability via the Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act. Please consider donating the following: