20 24 IMPACT
A WORD FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BRENDA SNITZER
Friends,
Each year, I look forward to celebrating the impact of lives changed through the work of The Stewpot. This remembrance feels especially meaningful in 2025, as we celebrate our 50th Anniversary year. Since The Stewpot served its first bowl of soup in 1975, we have served more than 8.7 million meals to hungry neighbors.
Looking back on this past year, I am proud to share with you that 2024 was just as impactful a year as 2025 promises to be. With the help of The Stewpot’s new Coordinated Street Outreach team, Dallas and Collin Counties saw a 24% reduction in unsheltered homelessness. The Stewpot’s focus on housing and holistic, wraparound services continued to change lives and improve our community.
Also in 2024, The Stewpot acquired a 4-acre campus with a 53,000 square foot purposebuilt facility, formerly the CitySquare Opportunity Center, to serve as our new home. The extra space in the new facility enables The Stewpot to continue expanding its programs. Two new programs, the Food Pantry and Neighbor Resource Center, already located on campus, will serve an additional 14,000+ neighbors each year.
As you will see in this Impact Report, we made significant progress in the growth of our services over this past year and successfully met the needs of our community. However, our mission is ever-changing and far from over. Poverty and homelessness are very real for the neighbors in our community. And so, we continue to grow, adapt and persist.
Thank you for making this impact possible through your support of The Stewpot. Together, we can continue to lower homelessness and lift up our under-resourced neighbors.
Blessings,
Brenda E. Snitzer, M.S.Ed. Executive Director, The Stewpot
MISSION
The Stewpot’s mission is to offer a safe haven for homeless and at-risk individuals of Dallas, providing resources for basic survival needs as well as opportunities to start a new life.
Since its inception in 1975, The Stewpot has grown from a soup kitchen into a widely-known and trusted community partner, providing case management and ID recovery services; a food pantry; Neighbor Resource Center; three hot meals a day 365 days a year; housing and housing support for unhoused individuals; a variety of art and other enrichment opportunities for uhoused and under-resourced neighbors; and enrichment and academic support opportunities for at-risk children and youth.
2024 HIGHLIGHTS
HOME FOR THE STEWPOT
In December, The Stewpot embarked on a transformative move into its expansive new home at 1610 S. Malcolm X Blvd. This 53,000-squarefoot facility—more than twice the size of our previous location—marks a bold step forward in our mission. With this acquisition, The Stewpot not only expanded its space but also its reach, assuming operations of a Neighbor Resource Center and a vital Food Pantry that serves more than 14,000 people each year. This move broadens our ability to provide comprehensive services to more under-resourced neighbors and ensure both our housed and unhoused Dallas neighbors receive the support they need to build brighter futures.
COORDINATED STREET OUTREACH PROGRAM
As a part of a coordinated outreach strategy with partners all over the city, The Stewpot implemented a new program where our dedicated staff go onsite to encampments located throughout Dallas and help unhoused neighbors obtain their vital IDs and sign up for housing. Our staff guide these neighbors until they get a home of their own. KERA featured a 4-part documentary on these efforts entitled A New Way Home
2025 AND BEYOND
We are celebrating 50 years of loving our neighbors throughout 2025 with an art installation at Galleria Dallas, a number of pop-up events, Love Your Neighbor week, a birthday celebration, and much more. Keep up with all the festivities at thestewpot.org/50-years
NEIGHBOR SERVICES
The Stewpot’s Neighbor Services Program meets neighbors where they are, be that poverty or homelesseness, and empowers them to achieve a better life.
HOUSING
4,479 ID Recovery Services provided, including state IDs and birth certificates, allowing neighbors to secure jobs, housing, Social Security and veterans’ benefits; access medical care; or enroll in school.
42 served with representative payee assistance
Served as Representative Payee for 42 clients who needed assistance managing and budgeting their limited Social Security funds and made $932,232 in bill payments on behalf of Representative Payee clients. This program is at no cost to participants!
23,909 over-the-phone assistance calls
ADDITIONAL SERVICES
Triaged 23,909 phone calls assisting neighbors navigating community service offerings.
• Provide mail service for 450+ neighbors with no fixed address
• Provide needed hygiene, clothing, and other basic items
• Public restrooms and twice-monthly hot shower opportunities
* We leverage over 80 onsite partnerships to offer everything neighbors need under one roof
The Stewpot’s Housing Program helps those at-risk of homelessness remain housed and helps our neighbors who are currently living on the streets become housed.
67 neighbors enrolled
143 neighbors stabilized
124 neighbors housed
67 neighbors are enrolled in Permanent Supportive Housing to stay housed The Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) program provides greater levels of staff support for people with the highest levels of need. PSH is designed for individuals with a disability who require longer term assistance to achieve stability and self-sufficiency.
143 neighbors are stabilized through Rapid Rehousing. The Rapid Rehousing (RRH) program helps individuals and families quickly exit homelessness and return to housing in the community with supportive case management support for a year.
69 enrolled in unsheltered PSH
69 neighbors housed through Unsheltered Permanent Supportive Housing and Coordinated Street Outreach, designed to support neighbors living in encampments obtain housing.
NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT
The Stewpot provides nutritional support for neighbors in need through hot meals served at The Bridge and groceries provided by the on-site, client choice Food Pantry, where neighbors can shop for the items they need to feed their family.
301,102 meals served at The Stewpot’s Second Chance Café at The Bridge Homeless Recovery Center.
14,844 neighbors served groceries through the Food Pantry and grocery delivery program.
Recovered 990,178 pounds of surplus food from partners in the restaurant, hospitality, and food services industries to serve to those who are hungry-all at no cost to The Stewpot.
301,102 meals served
14,844 neighbors served groceries
990,178 pounds of food recovered
CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILY
The Stewpot’s Children, Youth, and Family (CYF) Program helps children and youth living in poverty build a solid foundation from which to grow and develop into adults with choices and opportunities. The CYF Program offers year-round academic and enrichment activities that encourage low- and extremely-low-income children and youth to stay in school, improve academic performance, and make positive choices for their future.
100% students passed on to the next grade
Facilitated academic tutoring and enrichment programming for 65 students 1st-12th grade.
100 English as a Second Language Classes provided to adults
We provided 23 students with college scholarships.
100% graduation rate
100 ESL classes
23 students with college scholarships
ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS
The Stewpot’s Arts and Enrichment Program helps individuals gain self-confidence, develop new skills, earn an income, and communicate in healthy and healing ways. Enrichment includes The Stewpot’s Art Program, through which artists exhibit and sell their art online and at gallery shows; Dallas’ street newspaper, STREETZine, which Stewpot clients can sell as official vendors and to which clients can also sell their articles; a monthly Writers’ Workshop; and horticultural therapy. Our Enrichment team also partners with the Dallas Street Choir.
$51,659 in art sales
VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
Volunteers are vital to the work of The Stewpot. With the addition of the Food Pantry, which operates 4 days a week for 6 hours each day, we continue to value and need participation from volunteers to serve our neighbors effectively. Opportunities range from:
• Serving Meals at The Bridge Homeless Recovery Center
• Working shifts at the Food Pantry
• Helping with Streetside Showers
• Making hygiene kits
• Making snack bags
• Making welcome home baskets
• Sorting mail
• Volunteering with children and youth
Get involved today!
Facilitated $51,659 in art sales benefiting Stewpot clients. Clients keep 90% of proceeds and 10% goes back to The Stewpot’s Art Program to cover supplies and field trips for clients.
2,858 art class sessions
50 Writers Workshop sessions
21,646
total volunteer hours in 2024 saved The Stewpot
$724,925
We
believe that together, we can see a future where homelessness and poverty are rare, brief and nonrecurring.
Partnerships are critical to the ongoing mission of The Stewpot. We currently have over 80 active partners who work onsite to help us fulfill our mission. Over the course of its history, The Stewpot has birthed several nonprofits, including Austin Street Center, Genesis Women’s Shelter, and Interfaith Housing. The Stewpot has provided all meal services for The Bridge Homeless Recovery Center since its inception in 2008. The Stewpot provides onsite offices for Parkland’s medical and dental clinics, Parkland Counseling, and Metrocare Services’ psychiatric and medication management services. We also helped create The Dallas Connector, a transportation system for individuals experiencing homelessness.
The Stewpot is an active member of the All Neighbors Coalition, which is a collaboration of over 150 nonprofits working to end homelessness, led by Housing Forward. Our Executive Director, Brenda Snitzer, is the Chair of the All Neighbors Coalition since 2023.
In a year where we acquired two new programs, started a new program, and started a capital campaign, our funders stepped up to ensure our neighbors were cared for. Thank you to everyone who generously supported the neighbors served by The Stewpot. Our total operating revenue in 2024: $10,759,738.
