Today, a prick in Raydar sunglasses treated me like a criminal for walking within 100ft of the food pantry at 12:04pm today. He approached me while I was walking into the parking lot of the automall, at least a quarter of a block away from the food pantry itself, and told me that the pantry was closed. As of Thursday, January 8th, 2026, Pantry hours are listed from 9:00AM to 1:00PM. When I said this to him and asked if there was anyway that he would be able to help me get food considering the fact that the Food Pantry will be closed until Saturday. He then had the gall to ask me, and I quote, "Is this really and emergency?". When he said that, I was so shocked, uncomfortable, and full of shame that I excused myself from the conversation & left the parking lot before he could start to see the tears swell in my eyes. About a week ago, I bought $3 worth of pasta and marinara sauce that I have been able to ration out to myself everyday. I eat 1 serving around 1pm everyday. The past couple of days I have chosen to go to bed early so that I can fall asleep before the hunger pains start. In the morning, I chug water to trick my stomach into thinking its full. Despite my best efforts,I feel faint and dizzy constantly. My legs feel like they're going give out after only walking for minutes. My heart beats out of my chest like crazy as if I just ran a marathon after only standing up long enough to brush my teeth. Im physically sicker than I ever been at this point due to lack of nutrition. Does it sound like I'm in an emergency to you prick? Is this what you wanted me to tell you? Did you want me to beg and plead for you to deem my starvation worthy enough for your help? Now that I have given you the answer to your question, I have a question of my own to ask; what emergency where you facing when you chose personally deny me service to the food pantry, knowing that I could starve without your help? read more

Save your gas! In spite of what their website says, they Are Not open until 1pm. On any day. Their hours are: 9am - 12pm Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday read more

Awesome place in need of food donations. This establishment is run by a great staff that hires good people. They welcome most all donations but are in need of more food donations. Feel free to give them a call for their times of donations. You can even get a tax write off if you can't do it out of the goodness of your heart. :) read more

Milpitas Food Pantry - great people here - Food Banks Near Me - Milpitas, California

This is the best place ever! I had been in shelling place during the Covid 19 isolation period, I'd been in ICU for 2 months, Almost did not make it. The owner was so compassionate, I'm a vegan and she made sure I had everything I needed. I can't thank them enough! I love them! May the creator Bless them all 10 fold. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! read more

I understand this organization isn't as big as Second Harvest Bank, and because they don't have as many staff as Second Harvest Bank, it can be a bit disorganized when you are volunteering here. But they are doing the best they can with the people they have. The place is a bit hard to find, it is in the back of the industry plaza, next to the auto shop. Parking can be tight, but if you are here after 5PM, you can park in the Locksmith's parking space (they close at 5PM) The organization is fantastic, it definitely helps the community. read more

Milpitas Food Pantry - Food Banks Near Me - Milpitas, California

I came here with a donation that my work organized for Thanksgiving. It's a very small pantry that gives so much back to the community. Its heartbreaking to see struggling families here, but at least they are getting some support and relief. The volunteers here all do their best and give so much. If Milpitas is you local community, please give some cans and non-perishable foods if you can. Any little bit helps and they do so much with so little. If it's not your community, I encourage you to give to your local one as much as you can. It can be a bit hard to find (ok, a lot, I drove around for 30 min trying to find this place). It's tucked WAY back in a strip-mall like location with a car repair service in front. Be careful on the "driveway", it's one way! read more

I saw the Milpitas Food Pantry listed on the Second Harvest food pantry resource page. They were listed as servicing Santa Clara, Ca. I called earlier this afternoon and spoke with Karen at the Milpitas Food Bank and explained that the 2nd Harvest food distribution I normally go too had closed on Saturday and a lot of food pantries I've called had reduced their hours or closed because of COVID-19. She told me to come down around 7:30 pm today, March 27, 2020. I came earlier, around 7:15 pm, and the older lady in charge turned me away, saying that they were only helping people in the Milpitas and Alviso area. She then said she was swamped with people coming in but when I got there at 7 pm , sitting in my car, I only saw the volunteers. I think if your listed on the Second Harvest resource page as serving Santa Clara, California then you should either help people in that area or update your information on the Second Harvest site. This experience with the Milpitas Food bank was one of the most negative one I have experienced. It surprises me that Second Harvest partners up with this organization when Second Harvest commitment is to build a hungry-free community. Being turned away today goes against their vision. I left feeling frustrated trying to find food during these uncertain times, while another food resource was closed to me. I wanted to add an update to this review. I did call 2nd Harvest and they asked me to try going again. The 2nd time I went they gave me food with the understanding that their clients lived in the Milpitas and Alviso area. They made up for the first time experience by helping me out when I came a 2nd time. read more

It was my first time leading a volunteer event for my company and I am glad that I selected Milpitas food pantry. Karen was amazing from beginning and she helped me plan the event.We managed to sort and package thousands of cans in couple of hours and it was really fun volunteering. -Kush read more

Thank you to Karen & her staff. I have been donating here for years. I appreciate that all donations are given out based on needs & do not require you to pay. read more

Terrible, Terrible service. To whom that answered the phone on the 29th of June 2015 at 10AM, you are rude, lack patience, and could care less. I sent an email before about my younger sisters wanting to volunteer for service hours and did not get a reply back. So, I called and wanted to ask about volunteering. A woman answers and tells me that volunteering is through online. She says some incoherent stuff. I can't tell what she's saying as she sounds annoyed and rushes through her speech. I say my sisters would like to volunteer. She says some more incoherent stuff, something about not being of age and whatnot. After, she asks for her age and I say 15. Then, she says she isn't of age and quickly says bye. What terrible service. You sound like I am bothering you. How the heck do you get volunteers this way? And the underage thing? When my sister was in seventh grade, the teachers told the students they could do community service at the food pantry. Seventh graders. My sister is 15. Are you perhaps lying? So, my sister calls asking about the minimum age to volunteer. The same woman answers and questions "are you the 15-year-old who's sister just called?" My sister lies and says no. She says the same thing about volunteering being online and says bye. You didn't even answer the question. Your site doesn't even say there is an age requirement. If she said yes, would you even answer her? Or would you think we were wasting your time? Nope. Not going to volunteer at this place. Rudeness abound. You don't want volunteers? That's fine, they don't wish to work there anymore. You just lost potential volunteers. read more

I came here to do some volunteering with a volunteer organization and I thought it would be nice to give back. Upon arrival I noticed that the place was hidden and you couldn't really tell where it was. I don't know how they advertise this place to the needy community or if people can even find it, if they needed the support. Anyway, most of the stuff here is donated, I think. A lot of it was really old and dirty. We were given the tasks of organizing the diapers. A majority of the diapers that should be thrown out if anything. Some were so dirty/dusty I don't know who would put that on their babies. A lot of the diapers were out of their original packaging so you couldn't tell what size it was. When we were done organizing it, the best we could... The lady in charge here kinda scoffed at us and was like "you guys are done already??" OK?? I don't know how to tell sizes of diapers without labels so why don't you show me?! But she kinda just went off into how we needed to clean the bathrooms. My group kinda stared at each other... Was she serious? But when she mentioned, "Well, believe it or not, people actually come here to use to the bathroom to shower." in my mind was "if it's helping others out. I'm down." Halfway into cleaning the bathrooms with my partner, our organization leader came to check on us, and was shocked that she made us clean bathrooms. Our leader told us that we're not like some free janitorial service, and we're here to organize the items to help others... We did finish cleaning the bathrooms, and helped organized a few other items before leaving though. This was probably one of the worst volunteering experiences I've ever had. I used to volunteer a lot in high school for Interact, and nothing comes close to this. I felt like my help was unwanted and the energy here was really negative. Needless to say, I'm not coming back here... But I really do hope that this organization does reach out and help a lot of people! (I only saw two people come by for things.) read more

I used to work with their Executive Director, Karen. She is amazing! HUGE heart and so talented. She can help so many of our neediest families with so little! read more

We volunteer here once a month with a group of about 11 people. They are very kind and appreciative for the small bit of help we can give. It's impressive how much they can do with a small space and limited resources. I'm happy there is a place where people can come and get what they need. read more

OMG! Milpitas should be ashamed of their selves for having such a rude representative welcoming or should I say not welcoming new comers. Im homeless and was referred to this place for help with food and this lady was like " you don't belong here, go to San Jose, "That's where you need to be, NOT HERE" Loud like that in front of other what seemed like regulars. If I took it personal or was easily intimidated I would have ran out of there, but I stood my ground because my family was hungry and I didn't want to go back with out any food. Plus I advised her I lived in Milpitas and had no transportation, and still she said you still need to go to San Jose, I didn't belong there and stated she didn't have enough resources for everyone who shows up there. At one point I thought she wasn't going to give me anything, but to my surprise she complained the whole time she filled one plastic bag which consisted of one juice, pop tart, can of raviolis, and a packet of oatmeal, oh and a couple of breakfast bars. I asked how I could get to San Jose without a car and the look on her face was priceless and so I said well I guess I can take the bus and she yelled with such enthusiasm and said " Yes Yes, now you got it, use public transportatioin" I felt like I was un wanted and discriminated on top of discouraged. Like I really needed that, right? I will never go there again and I hope this lady reads this so she can see from the outside in. Im open to sharing alternative resources, thank you. c.lames@yahoo.com read more