Trader Joe's is a privately held chain of specialty grocery stores headquartered in Monrovia, California. As of June 2011, Trader Joe's had a total of 361 stores. Approximately half of its stores are in California, with the heaviest concentration in Southern California, but the company also has locations in 28 other states and Washington, D.C. Trader Joe's was founded by Joe Coulombe and is owned, since 1979, by a family trust set up by the late German businessman Theo Albrecht, one of the two brothers behind the German discount supermarket chain Aldi.
Feeding America is a United States–based nonprofit organization that is a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks that feed more than 46 million people through food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and other community-based agencies.[1] Forbes ranks it as the second largest U.S. charity by revenue.[2]