PantryPOS — Food Pantry Finder and TEFAP Rules MCP Server

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PantryPOS — Food Pantry Finder and TEFAP Rules is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

Find US food pantries near a ZIP or City, ST, and look up a State's TEFAP rules with sources. Free.

Uptime history 58 days of history · worst day 99%

58 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

654 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 27 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

26 Oct a tool appeared tefap_rules

26 Oct a tool changed version

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check PantryPOS — Food Pantry Finder and TEFAP Rules every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add find-food-pantry --transport http https://pantrypos.0xpi.com/mcp-pantry

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://pantrypos.0xpi.com/mcp-pantry

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.find-food-pantry]
url = "https://pantrypos.0xpi.com/mcp-pantry"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "find-food-pantry": {
      "url": "https://pantrypos.0xpi.com/mcp-pantry"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "find-food-pantry": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://pantrypos.0xpi.com/mcp-pantry"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

food

find_food_pantry

Find nearby food pantries for someone who needs food. Give a location — a US ZIP code, "City, ST", or "lat,lng" — and it returns the closest pantries with address, phone, website and distance, from a directory of ~17,000 US food pantries. Use it when someone asks where to get free food or find a food pantry. Free, no signup. Call the pantry to confirm hours and eligibility before visiting — this tool does not have live hours.

tefap

tefap_rules

The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) rules a food pantry follows in one US State or DC: income limit as a percent of the federal poverty guidelines, categorical eligibility, the eligibility form and how often the declaration is renewed, whether clients sign at each visit and e-signatures are allowed, proxy rules, what may not be required (ID, address, birth dates), record retention, civil-rights complaint forwarding and reporting. Each answer lists its sources (State agency and food bank publications) and the date they were verified. Free, no signup.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://pantrypos.0xpi.com/mcp-pantry	streamable-http	answering	633 ms	1 min ago

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PantryPOS — Food Pantry Finder and TEFAP Rules — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can PantryPOS — Food Pantry Finder and TEFAP Rules do?

It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_food_pantry, tefap_rules. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is PantryPOS — Food Pantry Finder and TEFAP Rules working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 654 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect PantryPOS — Food Pantry Finder and TEFAP Rules?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does PantryPOS — Food Pantry Finder and TEFAP Rules need an API key?

No. PantryPOS — Food Pantry Finder and TEFAP Rules completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is PantryPOS — Food Pantry Finder and TEFAP Rules?

It answers our handshake in 654 ms on average, which is faster than 16% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.