- The new 30,000-square-foot facility nearly doubles Master Provisions’ operational space and dramatically increases storage capacity.
- The Christian nonprofit rescued more than 2.5 million pounds of food in 2025, providing roughly 120,000 meals each month.
- Master Provisions completed the $5.2 million project debt-free after support from 172 donors and community partners.
Master Provisions revealed its brand-new headquarters and food distribution facility, increasing the nonprofit’s operational capacity, enabling it to serve more families facing food insecurity across Greater Cincinnati.
During a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, May 14, Master Provisions President Shane Armstrong, standing at the podium in front of the nonprofit’s new facility, announced that the organization emerged from the ambitious construction project debt-free.
LINK nky previously reported that Master Provisions raised $5.2 million from 172 various donors to finance the facility’s construction.
Two years after the groundbreaking, Master Provisions’ new facility is functionally operational, with dozens of volunteers actively receiving and redistributing food to pantries and banks throughout the Tri-State.
Master Provisions is a Christian food bank that rescues surplus or mispackaged food, processes it with volunteers, and distributes it through more than 240 nonprofit partners, including shelters, soup kitchens, recovery centers and food pantries. The organization was founded in 1994 by Roger Babik.
Master Provisions Board Chair Nick Kaufman dedicated the new building with a prayer, emphasizing that it symbolizes a place of love, safety and support within the community. Following the prayer, Kaufman touted the organization’s impact, noting that in 2025, Master Provisions rescued more than 2.5 million pounds of food, providing the equivalent of 120,000 meals each month across the Tri-State region.
“There was a recent publication that referred to Master Provisions as a logistical backbone of Northern Kentucky’s food insecurity infrastructure, and that’s a role that everybody here takes very seriously and very humbly,” he said. “With our new building, we’ve almost doubled capacity, and we know we can do nothing but the sky’s the limit.”
Master Provisions’ 30,000-square-foot facility, located at 10205 Toebben Dr. in Independence, is nearly double the size of its previous facility, giving the organization expanded storage capacity with greater vertical rack space as well as much larger cooler and freezer space.
“Due to the height, the vertical racking, a variety of different things—flow and efficiency—we have 10 times the skid space than we had in our old building,” Armstrong said. “When you look, and you see the cooler, it is twice the size of the floor space, but it’s the height of our old building, so lots more cooler and freezer product can go into there.”
Previously, the nonprofit operated out of the Borland Family Distribution Center in Florence, which had served as its base since 2011. The building was originally donated to Master Provisions by the Clifford R. Borland Sr. family. Master Provisions continues to honor the Borland family by naming its new facility the ‘Borland Family Distribution Center.’
Armstrong acknowledged several partners involved in the project, including those from financial and construction sectors, such as the Cincinnati Development Fund, KMK Law, Truist, River Ridge Consultants and Toebben Builders. Other key partners included Verst Logistics and The R.C. Durr Foundation.
