Office of Food Systems Resilience Grants
The Office of Food Systems Resilience in partnership with the Office of Grants Management has established multiple grant programs to support the implementation of initiatives aligned with The Strategic Plan to End Childhood Hunger. You can view the common impact metrics we developed to support consistent reporting and outcome tracking across grant programs linked here. The current and past programs OFSR administers are listed below:
Community Food Assistance Grant Program
The OFSR, in partnership with the Office of Grants Management (OGM), accepted grant applications from currently active 501(c)(3) food assistance provider organizations that have provided regularly scheduled, no cost services to Montgomery County residents at County-based sites at least once per month for a minimum of one year. $3.7M in total funding is available.
Status: This program is not currently accepting applications. Applications are currently being reviewed by a grant review panel of subject-matter experts.
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Food Recovery Network Coordination Grant Program
$125,000 is available to fund one award to an eligible non-profit organization to support the design, implementation, and ongoing coordination of a centralized Montgomery County Food Recovery Network (FRN) that improves operational efficiency at the organizational and network levels, leverages new resources, and boosts collaboration across the network of food recovery operators. .
Status: This program is not currently accepting applications. Applications are currently being reviewed by a grant review panel of subject-matter experts.
Food Recovery Network Infrastructure Grant Program
$306,000 was awarded to four organizations with projects that reflect collaborative, shared use approaches that allow for capacity building of the overall network of food recovery operators; establish recovery relationships with new donors and/or that increase access to higher value and limited availability products; and reduce the climate impacts of the food recovery and assistance network.
Status: This program is not currently accepting applications. The FY25 updated list of successful grantees is available at the link above.
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Food as Medicine Grant Program
$750,000 awarded to six partnerships to support innovative programs that connect pediatric patients experiencing diet-related disease and food insecurity
Status: This program is not currently accepting applications. The FY25 updated list of successful grantees is available at the link above.
Nutrition Benefits Outreach Grant Program
$304,000 in total grant funding was awarded for innovative approaches to reach and provide enrollment support to Montgomery County families that are eligible, but not actively enrolled, in SNAP and other federal and state-level nutrition benefits programs.
Status: This program is not currently accepting applications. The FY25 updated list of successful grantees is available at the link above.
Resident and Community Gardening Grant Program
$210,559 awarded to 7 grantees to support initiatives that expand resident and community food production capacity as a means of increasing local food security.
Status: This program is not currently accepting applications. The FY24 updated list of successful grantees is available at the link above.
School-Based Food Assistance Program
In August 2025, $2.3M was awarded to 13 organizations to support new initiatives and the expansion of existing projects at 99+ Montgomery County Public School Sites.
Status: This program is not currently accepting applications. The FY26 updated list of successful grantees is available at the link above.