Star Fish Food Pantry

2025 Annual Report

The images below represent lists of financial and in-kind donors. Click on the buttons below the images to see the full lists.
Financial Donors In-Kind Donors

People served 2025
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ICE & CBP

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are two arms of the Department of Homeland Security that have been operating in Plainfield recently.
We don't have any direct contacts to report, but we have been told by school officials that these agents have been at elementary schools while parents wait to pick up their children.
We are also told that these agents have been seen patrolling in the downtown area, where many immigrant residents live and shop.
Several Board members met with the Board of Education's Cardinal Family Success leaders where our PFSP is hosted on the second and fourth Thursdays every month. We provide a bag of food to all who come to the site. Concerns about agents in the area and their recent activities in the Plainfield area were discussed. Our mutual concerns were for the safety and security of the family members who are merely trying to get food for their hungry families. Without divulging specifics, a plan was developed and implemented to reduce exposure of the families we serve.

If you are interested in a "Protect your Rights!" informational flyer that is often given out to immigrant families shown below, click on the black button to download a copy. It is in both Spanish and English, and comes from DIRE in Highland Park. 

Food Waiting to Go

We package bags of food and distribute them to the families who walk-up at the Plainfield Food Security Project twice a month. Each bag contains essential food items to help ease hunger and boost a family's food supply, at least a little.

Hunger

At our former location, people would line up early to be sure to get food when distribution started at 10:00 a.m. We are no longer at that location but still give out food. We don't publicize the location due to ICE and CBP concerns, but our families know where to go for food.

Know Your Rights

This is an image of what we call the DIRE Flyer. It lists basic rights (in Spanish and English) so people can protect themselves (to a degree) if ICE and/or CBP agents present themselves.
Donate to PFSP DIRE Flyer here

Faith Lutheran Church

Here are photos from the last (2025) donation from the people in New Providence and at Faith Lutheran Church. We receive hundreds of boxes of food, sorted and labeled by their own army of workers before it gets to us. The Church also sends us a check from the money donated by residents and parishioners.

Boxes are sent to the basement via a roller ramp that FLC people bring with them, then they are passed to tables and volunteers who go through the items and put them into storage crates labeled by year to we can give out older food first. These crates go to the pantry (current year) and to the storeroom (future year expiration dates).  
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Volunteers in Action

Saturday, November 29, 2025