Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation awarded $300,000 to 38 organizations in 23 states during its 2025-26 fiscal year. The grants support food pantries, food rescue, meal delivery, rural distribution, campus food access, and other local responses to hunger.
The published recipient list makes the work unusually specific. Readers can identify the organization, program, city, state, and grant amount connected with every award.What did the Foundation award in 2025-26?
The Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation reports $300,000 in Fighting Hunger Grants during the 2025-26 fiscal year. The money went to 38 separate organizations and programs across 23 states.
The recipient record includes awards ranging from $4,400 to $25,000. It identifies each nonprofit, the funded project, the community it serves, and the amount awarded. The list ends with the full $300,000 total and credits Alpha Gamma Delta sisters, alumnae chapters and clubs, collegiate chapters, families, and friends for supporting the grants.
These are awarded grant amounts, not an estimate of donated food, volunteer time, or the total operating budgets of the receiving organizations. Each measure answers a different question and should remain separate.
Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation 2025-26 year in review · Official 2025-26 Fighting Hunger Grant recipients
What kinds of local programs received support?
The grants address hunger through several local models. Back Bay Mission in Biloxi, Mississippi, received $25,000 for an unsheltered meal and diabetes-prevention program. Grinding Stone Collective in New York received $25,000 for intertribal pantries. Catholic Charities of Northern Kansas received $10,000 for rural food distribution.
Other awards connect food access with the needs of particular communities. Southwest Montana Veterans Food Pantry and Services received $7,500 for veteran hunger relief and rural distribution. Texas State Technical College Foundation received $7,500 for its Fueling Student Success food pantry in Waco. Aster Aging received $7,500 for a Meals on Wheels expansion in Mesa, Arizona.
The list also includes food rescue, mobile pantries, fresh grocery programs, cold-storage expansion, farm production, and home delivery. This variety shows why a shared philanthropic focus does not require every community partner to run the same type of program.
How does the grant program work?
The Foundation states that eligible applicants include United States 501(c)(3) organizations and Canadian nonprofit organizations whose missions involve fighting hunger, food rescue, or local hunger relief. Examples of grantable work include food pantries, food banks, and meal assistance for children, families, and older adults.
The 2025-26 application period closed on January 31, 2026. The public page directs applicants to a grant guide for eligibility and submission rules. It does not publish the total number of applications, the selection committee’s scores, or a comparison of funded and unfunded requests.
The safest conclusion is that the Foundation completed a documented grant cycle with 38 named recipients. The record does not establish how many additional organizations applied or how each proposal ranked.
How does this cycle fit the longer Alpha Gamma Delta record?
Alpha Gamma Delta shifted its philanthropic focus from diabetes education and awareness to fighting hunger in 2017. The Foundation records the one-millionth dollar awarded in the fight against hunger in 2021 and reports $2.39 million in Fighting Hunger Grants as of 2026.
That cumulative total places the current $300,000 cycle inside a multiyear program. It should not be divided into equal annual amounts or treated as the Fraternity’s complete philanthropy total. Grantmaking, chapter fundraising, member service, national partnerships, and direct local projects are related activities, but they are not the same measure.
Alpha Gamma Delta also distinguishes hands-on service from fundraising in its public philanthropy information. That distinction helps readers understand what the Foundation’s dollar figures document and what they do not.
Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation mission and history · Alpha Gamma Delta philanthropy overview
Why does transparent grantmaking matter to Greek life?
A national philanthropic focus becomes easier to evaluate when the public can see where money went. Naming recipients and amounts gives donors, members, chapters, families, researchers, and community partners a record that can be checked.
The grant list also keeps local nonprofits visible. Food banks, rural distribution programs, campus pantries, veteran services, meal-delivery programs, and food-rescue groups provide the subject knowledge and daily operations required to address hunger in their communities.
For Greek-letter organizations, the cycle offers a clear reporting model: identify the reporting period, total awarded, number of recipients, locations, individual awards, program purposes, and limits of the available evidence. That makes recognition more useful without claiming results that recipients have not yet reported.
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GLOs United recognizes the Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation, Alpha Gamma Delta donors and groups, the 38 recipient organizations, their staff and volunteers, and the communities directing and receiving this hunger-relief work.
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