Every county. Every neighbor.
About Nourish Nevada
A statewide community resource: a single place to find food pantries, hot meals, farmers markets, WIC clinics, SNAP-accepting stores, senior meal sites, and tribal nutrition programs across all 17 Nevada counties.
Our partners
Nourish Nevada is an initiative of XPDSHN, built in partnership with the Northern and Southern Nevada Food Councils:
Northern Nevada Food Council
Coordinates food access work across the 13 northern counties, from Carson City and Reno-Sparks through the rural high desert to Elko and Mineral County.
Southern Nevada Food Council
Coordinates food access work across the 4 southern counties (Clark, Nye, Esmeralda, and Lincoln), including the Las Vegas Valley and rural southern Nevada.
What's included
The map covers all 17 Nevada counties: Washoe, Carson City, Douglas, Lyon, Storey, Churchill, Pershing, Humboldt, Lander, Eureka, Elko, White Pine, Mineral, Clark, Nye, Esmeralda, and Lincoln. Sites are categorized by type and tagged with which benefits they accept (SNAP/EBT, WIC, senior support) and whether delivery is available.
Where the data comes from
The dataset is compiled from public partner directories, government listings, and direct outreach to community organizations. Major sources include:
- Food Bank of Northern Nevada partner agencies and the TEFAP distribution schedule
- Three Square Food Bank partner directory (southern Nevada)
- Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada and Southern Nevada
- Nevada 211 food assistance listings
- Southern Nevada Health District and Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health WIC clinic directories
- County senior services, family resource centers, and community service offices
- Tribal nutrition and food distribution programs
- SNAP-authorized farmers markets across the state
- Urban farms, community gardens, and food sovereignty organizations
- Faith-based food ministries and meal programs
How it's built
The site is a single-page web app using MapLibre GL JS and a published GeoJSON dataset. Map tiles are from OpenStreetMap via CARTO. The dataset is maintained collaboratively: staff and volunteers from both councils can validate listings in their region, while the technical maintenance is centralized.
Maintenance model
Nourish Nevada is maintained by a small team:
- Site operations. Code, hosting, deploys, and the underlying data pipeline are run by XPDSHN for consistency.
- Regional data. Verified and updated by the Northern Nevada and Southern Nevada Food Councils and their partner organizations, each covering its own counties.
- Public submissions. Anyone can suggest a site or report a correction; submissions are reviewed by the appropriate regional council.
Keeping Nourish Nevada free and current costs real money: hosting and bandwidth, the domain, and the ongoing work of verifying listings. We cover it through small donations rather than putting the map behind a paywall or ads. Our annual goal is tied to the platform's actual operating cost plus a margin for improvements, so you can see exactly what your gift supports. If this map is useful to you, chip in here.
Nourish Nevada will also be open source. If you want this for your own state or community, you will be able to take the whole thing and run with it: an open-source template you can fork is coming soon. It is a food map, after all, so forking is rather on brand. The code will be open, but the Nourish Nevada and XPDSHN names and logos are not.
What we want to add next
- A regional review queue so submitted sites are triaged and published by the right council
- Mobile pantry distribution schedules with dates and times
- Service-gap layer showing areas with low food access by census tract
- Printable directories for partners who serve clients offline
- Spanish and tribal-language translations
A note on tribal nations
Several Nevada tribes have communities that extend across state lines into California, Arizona, Oregon, and Utah. This map currently includes only the Nevada-side locations of these programs. We're working with tribal partners to make sure the listings we do include are accurate and respectful.
Privacy and accessibility
The "Near me" button uses your browser's location only to sort sites by distance. Your location is never stored or sent anywhere. The site is keyboard navigable, works without JavaScript-heavy UI on slow connections, and aims for WCAG AA contrast.
Contact
Reach Nourish Nevada at hello@nourishnv.org, or use the suggest a site form for additions and corrections.