About Us

Mission Statement

Yorkville Common Pantry (YCP) is dedicated to reducing hunger and promoting dignity and self-sufficiency.  Our services are provided in the Upper East Side and East Harlem to our neighbors in and around these communities.

As the largest, nonsectarian, neighborhood-based provider of emergency food in New York City, YCP provides 1,250,000 meals annually to all who come seeking relief from hunger. The Pantry was founded in 1981 by a coalition of East Side churches and synagogues and receives strong support from its forty-five member Board of Directors.

Each week, YCP:

• Provides hundreds of emergency food packages through its 24/7 program, the city's only emergency food pantry that never closes.
• Serves 1,200 hot meals to hungry individuals.
• Distributes nutritious grocery packages containing 23,000 meals to 700 low-income families, representing 3,000 individuals.
• Provides homeless men and women with on-site showers and laundry facilities, psychiatric assessments, emergency shelter, and help in obtaining jobs and housing.
• Aids clients in obtaining needed services and entitlements.

Yorkville Common Pantry's programs are efficient as well as effective. Nearly 83% of the agency's expenditures are allocated directly to program activities.

Click on the Our Programs link to see a description of all our programs.

For a copy of our 990 Form, click here.