In the strictest sense, a food bank does not provide food to clients. It provides significant quanitites of food to the agencies that do.  The Great Falls Community Food Bank is a food bank by that definition as it provides food to over 40 agencies in Cascade and Teton counties.

As such, and as a Secondary Distribution Organization (SDO) of America's Second Harvest, it playes a crucial role as a distribution link to make the logistics of serving a state as large as Montana more manageable.