Mission
Our mission is to end hunger in Montana through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. MFBN has been supporting Montana since 1983. Our vision is a Montana free from hunger where everyone has equal access to nutritious food.
What We Do
Montana Food Bank Network (MFBN) is Montana’s only statewide food bank and partner food bank of Feeding America. We serve 330 Network Partners—including community food banks, pantries, schools, senior centers, and shelters—united by a shared mission to end hunger across our state. In addition to distributing food, we advocate for long-term policy solutions to strengthen public nutrition programs and address the root causes of hunger. Our hunger relief programs are BackPack, Child Nutrition, Hunters Against Hunger, Mail-a-Meal, Retail Food Rescue, and SNAP outreach.
Impact
Every $1 donated helps provide at least 4 meals.
How is this even possible?
Through partnerships with local and national food manufacturers, agriculturists, and other food manufacturers we are able to secure large amounts of food through generous donations, grants, or wholesale. Then, through a team of volunteers, we are able to break down the large-scale food into manageable family-size portions so our Partner Agencies and other programs are then able to easily store and distribute these to our neighbors experiencing food insecurity.
Commitment To Tribal Communities
We are committed to ending hunger in Tribal communities and collaborating to support Indigenous food sovereignty efforts. We partner with tribal individuals and organizations across all seven reservations in Montana through partner pantries, meal programs, Mail-A-Meal drop sites, and Hunters Against Hunger. Additionally, MFBN is working with the state food banks of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming as 104° West Collaborative to continue to learn how to best support the vital work already being done by these communities.
We Are A Network
We cannot end hunger alone. Our Network Partners and the support of communities across Montana are essential to working toward our vision of a Montana free from hunger. We have the greatest impact when we work together to ensure every neighbor has access to the food they need.
Core Values
RESPECT. We interact with dignity, kindness, compassion, empathy, and trust with everyone.
INTEGRITY. We honor our commitments, acknowledge and address our mistakes, and actively live our mission.
RESPONSIBILITY. We strive for excellence and the biggest impact for everyone we serve, wisely and transparently using resources entrusted to us.
JUSTICE. We recognize and seek to understand past and ongoing injustices that impact food security, and consider lived expertise essential to identifying barriers and incorporating solutions into our work.
EQUITY. We provide support equitably and with respect to individual needs, to encourage all to succeed.
Contact
Our facility is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (MST). It is located at 5625 Expressway, Missoula MT 59808. We can be reached at (406) 721-3825 or [email protected].
Updated August 2025