Find food in New Mexico, or find out why people can't.

Anyone can look up a food pantry, SNAP retailer or WIC vendor near any address. That part is free, needs no account, and always will. Behind it sits the platform that maps food access across 491 New Mexico neighborhoods, for the people who decide where help goes.

No account. No card. No catch.

491neighborhoods scored
31counties published
2,600+food locations mapped
108legislative districts

Why this exists

New Mexico is first in the nation for WIC eligibility, and sixth from the bottom for WIC reach.

More families here qualify for food help than anywhere in America, and almost nowhere does a worse job of getting it to them. The distance between who is eligible and who is actually reached is where children go without.

The data that explains that gap is already public. It has never been put together at a scale where anyone could act on it.

It sits in the Census Bureau, USDA, CDC, HUD and half a dozen state agencies, in formats that don't speak to each other, at geographies that don't line up. The county gets a number. The neighborhood, where people actually live and where the answer actually is, gets nothing.

#1SNAP participationHighest share of households on food assistance in the United States
#1WIC eligibilityMore families qualify here than in any other state
#3Child povertyThird-highest rate in the nation
#3Overall povertyThird-highest rate in the nation
45thWIC reachSixth-lowest share of eligible families actually served

Our purpose

Make the invisible parts of hunger addressable

Food insecurity in New Mexico is not a mystery to the people living it. It is a mystery to the systems meant to fix it, because those systems see counties and hunger happens on streets. Our purpose is to close that gap in resolution, and to put the result in the hands of everyone who can act on it. That starts with the family who just needs to know where to go tonight.

01 / VISION

Nobody in New Mexico is hungry because nobody looked

A state where every agency, food bank, developer and researcher works from the same honest picture of where food access fails. At the neighborhood level, kept current, and available to all of them at once.

02 / MISSION

Turn scattered public data into decisions

Join the public record into one maintained map of food access. Score it transparently, publish what it cannot tell you, and keep the part that helps a person find food free forever.

03 / PRINCIPLE

Looking is free. Leveraging is paid.

Finding a place to get food costs nothing and never will. Analyzing access at scale, exporting it, branding it and building on it is professional work, and organizations doing professional work pay for the tool.

How it works

What is free, and what is not

The difference between the free tool and the paid one is not features. It is resolution. Finding food and understanding your county are free. Neighborhood-level analysis is the product.

Free · Find food, and see your county

Find food, and understand your county

For anyone. No account, no card.

  • Food pantries, SNAP retailers, WIC vendors, senior centers and meal sites
  • Addresses, phone numbers and directions
  • Food insecurity, SNAP and WIC coverage by county
  • How your county compares with the rest of the state
  • The full methodology and every source

Free, and staying that way

Find food near you

Paid · Target a specific neighborhood

Target a specific neighborhood

For organizations that have to act.

  • All 491 published neighborhoods, scored
  • Distance to the nearest real grocery
  • Affordability, transport, health context
  • District and county reports
  • Exports, briefs and batch reporting

From $49 / month

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Who it's for

Four jobs, one map

Everyone here is answering a version of the same question. Where is the need, and how do I prove it? What changes is who you have to convince.

Government & tribal

You have to decide where the money goes, then defend the choice.

Needs assessments, funding targeting, program evaluation and legislative readouts, built on sources an auditor will accept and a methodology you can hand to a reporter.

  • County, tribal and legislative-district profiles
  • WIC and SNAP gaps, including single points of failure
  • Neighborhood targeting for siting and outreach

Defensible targeting in an afternoon instead of a procurement cycle.

Nonprofits & food banks

You have to prove need to a funder who has never been here.

Evidence for grant applications, service-area planning and enrollment outreach, without paying a consultant $30,000 for a community needs assessment you will need again next year.

  • Grant-ready county and neighborhood briefs
  • Where eligible households aren't enrolled
  • Service-area planning across county lines

The evidence section of a grant, already written and sourced.

Grocery & development

You are siting a store that costs millions, in a state nobody has good data on.

Underserved-market screening and trade-area demand for New Mexico specifically, including the benefit-program spending that national platforms do not carry. You are buying access and support, not exclusivity: if this ever becomes free, you got what you paid for and the state got something better.

  • Screen every neighborhood for unmet demand
  • SNAP and WIC spending potential by trade area
  • Feasibility and incentive-program context

De-risk a multi-million-dollar decision for the cost of a rounding error.

Researchers & academics

You need something you can cite, reproduce and defend in peer review.

Documented methodology, full extracts, and a published position on every limitation in the data, including the ones that are inconvenient for us.

  • Full neighborhood-level extracts
  • Published methodology and source lineage
  • Bulk extracts for reproducible analysis

Months of data engineering you do not have to do again.

Why not just…

The alternatives, honestly

There are other ways to answer these questions. Here is where each one runs out.

…download it from the Census yourself?

You can, and you should be able to, because it is public. Then you will spend months reconciling geographies that changed between vintages, chasing down which tracts are missing population, and discovering that the store list says a town has five groceries while the distance model says the nearest is 44 miles away. We have already fixed those. That is the product.

…use a national site-selection platform?

Placer, Esri and Buxton are excellent at foot traffic and consumer segments. None of them carry New Mexico's WIC vendor network, tribal land context, or where SNAP-eligible households are not enrolling. For a general market that is fine. For this state it is the whole question.

…commission a consultant?

A community needs assessment runs $15,000 to $50,000 and describes one moment in time. Six months later it is a PDF in a drive. This is the same evidence, kept current, for every county at once, at a fraction of the cost of one assessment.

…ask people on the ground?

Always. Local knowledge beats any model, and this tool is built to be argued with rather than believed. What it gives you is the statewide picture no single person can hold, so the conversation starts somewhere real instead of at zero.

Where this is going

Built in the open, in order of who it helps

We publish the plan because the people who would benefit most should be able to hold us to it.

Live now

The statewide picture

491 neighborhoods scored across food access, affordability, transport and health. Tribal lands are excluded pending consent, as described below. Free resource lookup, county comparisons, legislative and local district reporting, tribal land boundaries, and transit overlays for Albuquerque.

In progress

Tribal food resources, with tribal partners

Tribally-operated groceries, FDPIR distribution and tribally-run WIC clinics, sourced in collaboration rather than inferred from afar. Until that work is done we say plainly that on-reservation access is under-represented here.

Planned

Change over time

Trend history, so you can show a funder or a legislature whether an intervention actually moved anything. That is the question every program eventually gets asked, and almost none can answer.

Pricing

Priced by who you are, not by what it cost us

A grocery developer de-risking a multi-million-dollar store and a two-person food pantry are not the same customer. Pretending otherwise would price one of them out, so we do not. And if you are one person looking something up, you should not be paying us at all.

Nonprofit

Verified 501(c)(3)

$49

per month, from. 3 seats

  • All 491 published neighborhoods
  • Grant-ready briefs and exports
  • Scales to $149 and $349 tiers
  • Funder-sponsored access available

Research

Academic & non-commercial

$49

per month, from. Per person

  • Full neighborhood extracts
  • Bulk extracts for reproducible work
  • Lab and department plans
  • Citation required

Most organizations

Government & commercial

Agencies, tribal programs, developers

Let's talk

annual licence, invoice or PO

  • Agency-wide or team seats
  • District and site-feasibility reporting
  • Custom analysis and bespoke reporting
  • Data-use agreement, procurement support

The paywall is a bridge, not the destination. This is self-funded. Charging organizations is how the work gets paid for right now, and it is not where we want to end up. If a funder or an agency underwrites it, the wall comes down and everything here becomes free to everyone, permanently for as long as that support runs.

That is a real offer, not a sentiment. Sponsorship starts at $25,000 a year for a county or region, and $75,000 for the whole state. You fund public access rather than buying private access, your organization is credited, and every food bank, city, researcher and resident in the area covered gets the full platform at no charge. If that is something you could fund, let's talk.

Commercial licences pay for community access. Revenue from grocery developers and state agencies is what lets nonprofit pricing start at $49 instead of $500, and what funds sponsored access for organizations that genuinely cannot pay. We would rather tell you that than pretend the free tier is charity. It is not charity. It is cross-subsidy, and it works.

Our data

Public sources, documented joins, stated limits

None of this is proprietary data we bought and resold. It is the public record, joined carefully, with the methodology published. What you pay for is the joining, the scoring, and keeping it true.

US Census BureauAmerican Community Survey: population, income, poverty, vehicle access, housing cost
USDASNAP-authorized retailer locations and food access measures
CDC PLACESNeighborhood-level health outcome estimates
HUDLocation Affordability Index: real household transportation cost
New Mexico WICAuthorized vendor and clinic locations, refreshed quarterly
NM Aging & Long-Term ServicesSenior centers, congregate and home-delivered meals

Where this tool is weak, said plainly

Coverage of tribal lands and tribally-operated food resources is incomplete, so on-reservation food access is very likely under-represented. A low-priority score on tribal land means thin data to verify locally. It never means confirmed access. Some neighborhoods fall back to county-level estimates where survey data is too sparse, and every one of those is flagged in the tool rather than quietly filled in. This is a planning-level screening tool. Verify anything you intend to act on.

This platform does not cover tribal lands

New Mexico's tribal nations are sovereign. We do not hold written consent from them to publish analysis of their communities, so we do not publish it. Neighborhoods on or overlapping tribal land are withheld from every map, score, ranking and report on this platform, and tribal boundary data has been withdrawn.

That the underlying inputs are public federal data does not make publishing derived characterisations of a nation's community consensual. Authority over data about a people rests with that people, not with whoever can obtain the inputs.

Nothing is shown. Not the scores, not the county counts, and not the food resource listings. We withheld the listings too, on reflection, because deciding on a nation's behalf that a service is good for them is still a decision made without asking.

Are you a member of, or working for, one of New Mexico's tribal nations? We would like to talk about what publishing your data on your terms would look like, or whether you want it published at all. Nothing goes back in without written consent, and you decide what is included, how it is described, and when it comes down again. Start that conversation.

Questions

Straight answers

What exactly is free?

Finding food and reading county-level data, both with no account. That covers pantries, SNAP retailers, WIC vendors, senior centers and meal sites, plus food insecurity, SNAP and WIC coverage for all 33 counties and the full methodology. If you are trying to feed your family, nothing on this site should stand in your way. The paid plans are for organizations analyzing food access, not for people living it.

Why do nonprofits pay at all?

Because a tool that gets cancelled helps nobody. Charging a real but small amount makes this a budgeted line item that survives a board review, rather than a free service that quietly disappears. Nonprofit pricing starts at $49 a month, against the $15,000 to $50,000 a community needs assessment usually costs. If a funder wants to underwrite access for a specific organization, we support that. Just ask.

What's the difference between county and neighborhood data?

A county tells you roughly how things are, and that part is free. A neighborhood, which is a census tract of usually a few thousand people, tells you where to actually put a clinic, a bus route or a store. County averages hide the places that need help most. That is why professional work needs the neighborhood level, and why that is where the paid line sits.

Do I need an account to look something up?

Not for anything free. There is no individual plan and no personal subscription, because county-level food data is already published free by Feeding America and others, and charging you for it would be nickel-and-diming. Accounts exist for organizations, where a licence buys neighborhood-level analysis. If you are doing professional work for an employer or a client, that is what your organization needs.

How current is the data?

It varies by source, and we publish the vintage of each rather than implying it is all live. Census figures follow the ACS release cycle. WIC vendor listings refresh quarterly. Retailer locations update as USDA publishes them. Any listing can go stale between updates, so call ahead before travelling to a food resource.

Who built this, and why should I trust it?

InnovaOps LLC, a New Mexico company. Trust it the way you would trust any analysis. Read the methodology, which we publish, and check it against what you already know about your own community. We also publish what the tool gets wrong. A source that never names its own weaknesses is the one to worry about.

Tell us what you're trying to figure out

Targeting a program, writing a grant, siting a store, or just checking whether anyone has ever properly looked at your county. Start with the question and we will tell you honestly whether this can answer it.