HomeMy WebLinkAboutTable to Table FY24 A2A ResponsesOctober 7, 2022
Agency: Table to Table
Questions:
1. T2T states that it costs $93,000 annually to deliver to Coralville partners. Can T2T
provide a similar estimate for Iowa City partners?
There are two ways we typically look at costs of service, percent of the food received and
number of routes/deliveries made per community. Since no municipality covers the full cost of
service to their community, we do not track this specifically in our budget. The number given for
Coralville was based on the percentage of food received of the total allocated by our programs
in FY22. Using the same metric for Iowa City (66%), the estimated cost of Table to Table
service to Iowa City in the coming year will be $394,241.
In considering other metrics, Table to Table makes (on average) 92 deliveries on 28 routes to
Iowa City agencies per week vs. 31 deliveries on 22 routes to all other communities combined.
2. Can T2T provide pounds of food distributed to partner agencies each year for the last
three years?
This chart represents the food distributed to Iowa City partner agencies in FY20,21, and 22.
Total Pounds
Distributed
High Need Foods
(Produce, Meat,
Dairy, Prepared)
Dry goods/
non-perishable/
personal care Bakery
FY 2020 1,667,560.10 862,947 472,534 332,079
FY2021 1,545,347.81 912,067 380,214 253,067
FY2022 1,338,428.50 812,301 298,226 227,903
Distribution change in
pounds 2020 to 2022 -329,132 -50,646 -174,309 -104,176
Distribution change
by percent 2020 to
2022 -19.7% -5.9% -36.9% -31.4%
3. How many partners has T2T had each year the last three years?
FY20 agency numbers represent those we served from July 2019 through June 2020. By the
end of the fiscal year, many partners had opted out of deliveries due to the pandemic and T2T
paused service to a few others who were not emergency food relief programs. Through the last
quarter of FY20 and the first three quarters of FY21, Table to Table served between 25 and 30
agencies. We brought service back to all previous agencies who wished to continue by the end
of FY21. Some partners who opted out have closed their food distribution or their operations
entirely due to the pandemic.
October 7, 2022
Year Total Number of
Partners
Total Number of IC
Partners
FY20 51 40
FY21 46 40
FY22 46 36
The number of organizations served is the way we report service numbers through the joint
funding application, because we have been instructed to leave the agency demographics form
in the application blank (arriving at an unduplicated number from all agencies with
demographics is challenging).
The number of agencies served it isn’t necessarily how we quantify and assess our work. At any
given time we may have 5+ organizations on a waitlist. We prioritize new partnerships with
emergency food relief programs that aren’t duplicative or serving the same populations as other
partners. We try to keep the partner numbers in line with the amount of food available so that
partners can consistently rely on us as a foundational food source.
Because we don’t use number of agencies as a metric, I’d also like to share with you the service
numbers Iowa City partners have shared with us (80% of our partners are able to provide a
number, so the totals listed are slightly lower than actual).
Pantry Households Served Per Week IC Pantry Visits Per Year
2020 1112 57,824
2021 1208 59,280
2022 1349 (current) 66,508 (projected with current increase)
% Increase 21% 15%
In addition, our Iowa City meal site, shelter, and youth program partners are serving more than
5,000 meals per week. We don’t have readily available historical data from these partners, but
we know their nights of shelter and number of youth served has increased since the start of the
pandemic.