Meals From The Heart

The Numbers

The Numbers

In only a few short years, Meals From The Heart has grown from a couple annual events managed from Tom’s kitchen table to an organization that is making a daily impact in the lives of families in need as well as those who serve.

Meals From The Heart = Momentum

Here are a few highlights and milestones that illustrate the growing impact of Meals From The Heart.


As an organization, we have packed over 15 million meals since 2008. The first 13 events were packed with globally focused organizations.


As Meals from the Heart, we’ve packed over 10 million meals since our first event on Valentine’s Day, 2014.


We have packed over 2.2 million meals with our corporate host partner, Medtronic, in six states and 2 countries. We expect that number to be exceeding a million meals on an annual basis beginning in 2020.


We have packed over 2.7 million meals with LuHi, Long Island Lutheran in New York.


We have packed nearly 750,000 meals with offenders in MN State prisons in our Serving Beyond the Bars initiative.


Our goal is to pack over 2.6 million meals in 2019 and 3 million in 2020.

Meals From The Heart