About Second Harvest Heartland

Headquarters: Maplewood

2008 revenue: $51 million from private donations and government sources, an increase of 10.4 percent from 2007.

Size: The fourth-largest food bank in the nationwide Feeding America network, and the largest in the Upper Midwest.

Service area: More than 980 food shelves, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, senior centers and after-school children's programs in 59 counties in Minnesota and western Wisconsin.

No longer tossed: 4.9 million pounds of nearly expired food from grocery stores, retailers and farmer's markets in the past year.

Fresh food: More than 1 million pounds of that was perishable fresh food, such as fruit, vegetables, bread and meat.