Impact

Project Angel Heart is the Rocky Mountain-Region expert in providing medically tailored meals. We have a track record of more than 30 years of success. In fact, during that time, we’ve prepared and delivered 10 million meals and expanded our delivery footprint to cover 1,600 square miles along the Front Range, serving severely ill neighbors from Longmont to Pueblo.

And we’re not stopping now!

Among our goals by 2025, we’re working to prepare and home-deliver 800,000 medically tailored meals per year; grow our program to serve neighbors in need across 75% of the Front Range Urban Corridor; engage and sustain a dynamic and diverse community of volunteers; and advocate for expanded inclusion of medically tailored meals as a benefit in federal- and state-regulated insurance programs.

Read our complete Organization Strategy that guides our work.

Our Impact-(fiscal year 2022)

Who We Serve

  • 51% female
  • 78% lived at or below 200% of the federal poverty level, which is an annual income of $27,180 for one person
  • Were most frequently living with end-stage renal disease/kidney disease; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; cancer; or heart failure

The Life-Changing Difference

  • 75% of our clients reported less stress related to getting and preparing food
  • 72% reported their quality of life improved due to our meals
  • 65% reported that our program helped them remain independent in their home

Community of Kindness

  • Every week, more than 400 volunteers helped us prepare, package and deliver thousands of meals
  • Volunteers drove more than 6,000 routes, for a total of more than 95,000 miles to deliver meals to neighbors in need
  • Volunteers decorated thousands of meal bags with heartwarming and beautiful art, which clients say help them feel less isolated

Research

Along with our sister agencies around the country, we collect data to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of our meals and share the results.

Learn more about the research—our own and others’—that demonstrates that providing proper nutrition is linked to improved health outcomes and lower costs of care for people who are severely ill.