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Turn Surplus Food Into Community Impact and Bottom-Line Benefits
Wholesome surplus food has value. Food Donation Connection helps businesses capture it.
Since 1992, FDC has helped food service and retail organizations build and manage successful food donation programs that feed people, reduce food waste, support sustainability goals, and help eligible businesses realize available financial benefits.
From identifying and vetting nonprofit partners to coordinating pickups, establishing procedures, tracking donations, calculating valuations, and providing reporting and documentation, FDC manages the entire program.
Why Food Donation Connection?
Food Donation Is Easy to Start. It’s Harder to Manage at Scale.
Finding a nonprofit to accept surplus food is only the beginning.
A successful program requires reliable pickups, qualified partners, food safety procedures, accurate tracking, financial documentation, and ongoing support.
That’s what FDC has done since 1992.
FDC provides the people, processes, technology, nonprofit network, and support needed to manage food donation programs across the globe.
More Than Technology. We Manage the Program.
FDC matches donating locations and nonprofit partners, manages pickups, resolves issues, tracks donations, calculates valuations, and provides reporting and documentation.
As your central point of coordination, we manage the local relationships and day-to-day details so your locations don’t have to.
We help generate 2 new meals per second, EVERY second!
10,000
Non profits assisted
1,300
Partner Businesses
2 Bil
Pounds of food donated
34+
Years of Experience
The FDC Difference
Real People. Reliable Support.
Food donations don’t always go according to plan. Pickups are missed, schedules change, and nonprofit capacity can shift.
FDC’s Live Answer Support Center provides locations and nonprofit partners with experienced staff who understand your program and can resolve issues quickly.
Missed pickup? Schedule change? Agency issue? Program question?
Food Safety, Compliance, and Reporting Built In
FDC works with your team to establish procedures for identifying, handling, storing, tracking, and transferring donated food. We also ensure donations go to qualified non-profit organizations and that required documentation is maintained.
Our reporting provides visibility by location, market, region, division, concept, or enterprise—including operational, financial, environmental, and community impact.
Financial Expertise
Beyond the community impact, surplus food donations may provide financial value through enhanced federal tax benefits under IRC Section 170(e)(3).
FDC captures the information needed to support donation valuations and tax documentation, including:
● Item/SKU-level donation tracking
● Cost and retail value data
● Donation valuations
● Qualified nonprofit documentation
● Recipient signatures
● Form 8283 support
● Period and annual reporting
● Tax-preparation documentation
We turn donation data into information your finance and tax teams can use.
Built Around Your Operation
Restaurants, grocery stores, convenience stores, and distribution centers have different needs. FDC designs programs around your:
● Surplus food streams
● Operating procedures
● Storage capacity
● Food safety requirements
● Pickup needs
● Technology and data capabilities
● Financial objectives
● Sustainability and community-impact goals
The donation program fits your operation—not the other way around.
Trusted by the world's leading food organizations
Why Donate Surplus Food?
Experience That Scales
Food donation isn’t a side business for FDC. It’s what we’ve done since 1992.
Our nonprofit relationships, operational expertise, food safety knowledge, financial processes, technology, and support infrastructure help organizations manage food donation at scale. You focus on running your business. FDC focuses on making your donation program successful. You Have Surplus Food. We Take Care of the Rest.
FDC makes food donation simple, reliable, measurable, and financially valuable.
Ready to Build a Better Food Donation Program?
Worldwide Donation Activity
The number of unique donations (by location) entered into Log around the world by hour, over the last 48 hours.
More Than Technology. Complete Program Management.
Technology can track a donation. FDC manages everything around it.
Your locations don’t need to manage dozens—or thousands—of individual nonprofit relationships. FDC serves as your single point of contact. One program. One partner. Local impact across your entire organization.