The Food Bank of Northern Nevada is one of the organizations that is being impacted by federal funding cuts.
The nonprofit says it's seen two of its federally funded programs cut this year.
FBNN serves about 25 million pounds of food a year and is seeing some of its food supply go away.
The first is funding from the Local Food Purchase Cooperative Agreement Program.
"It's a great program where the Nevada Department of Agriculture buys local food from Nevada producers and gives it to food banks," said Jocelyn Lantrip, Director of Marketing, FBNN.
Lantrip says it provides a great supply of food for the nonprofit.
"We received about 1.1 million pounds of food a year through that program and that is significant loss to our food bank," she said.
The Commodity Credit Corporation funding through the United States Department of Agriculture was also cut.
"Currently what we have seen is about 350 thousand pounds of food have been cancelled," Lantrip said. "We were expecting to see that food April through August, and it is not coming anymore."
Lantrip says that if this program does not start back up, they would lose 2.1 million pounds of food for next year.
While the Food Bank will still have millions of pounds to work with, they say these programs put more of an emphasis on quality, not the quantity.
"So, it sounds like a small percentage of what we're doing, but the food that we have been getting from these programs is great food," Lantrip said.
She says they will make it work with what they can get.
"It is very possible that we will need to purchase more food, so we'll be looking for more donations, monetary donations and food donations," Lantrip said.
Lantrip says the need for the Food Bank's services is still at a record high.
There are 160,000 people who need their help every month.
The nonprofit also has a Government Relations Manager who is speaking with congressional leaders about more opportunities for more funding.
