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Banco de Alimentos de Costa Rica
Costa Rica roots
Source review: 2026-10-05
Your guide to Banco de Alimentos de Costa Rica
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Reported work and places
Food and nutrition. Reported activity: Costa Rica.
The 2025 annual report describes food rescue, classification and distribution through community organizations from its central and Guanacaste operations in Costa Rica. Recipient organizations contribute toward product value; wholly free distribution at every stage is not promised.
Evidence dated 2025-12-31. End or stated cutoff of the 2025 annual reporting period; not a claim of daily activity on this marker date.
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Who receives your money
- Organization roots
- Costa Rica
- Roots and operating base
- Costa Rica programme and community roots; reviewed legal recipient based in Costa Rica.
- Reviewed legal entity
- Asociación ABACOR · Costa Rica
- Named recipient
- Asociación ABACOR (Banco de Alimentos de Costa Rica), via BAC Yomeuno · Costa Rica
- Giving route
- Official organization giving instructions
Official 2025 report physical page 59 explicitly authorizes BAC Yomeuno and asks donors to select Banco de Alimentos. Live platform labels the beneficiary, links the official domain, and says funds go to the organization-designated account. Costa Rican colón card gifts require payment and identity data; optional contact-sharing consents are separate. Terms describe authorized gifts as final except specified error, unauthorized-charge or legal cases. External issuer conversion or charges may apply. No payment made.
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Country evidence and reporting periods
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Costa Rica
The 2025 annual report describes food rescue, classification and distribution through community organizations from its central and Guanacaste operations in Costa Rica. Recipient organizations contribute toward product value; wholly free distribution at every stage is not promised.
Reporting period: 2025 · Physical PDF pages 19–23: completed operations; page 59: explicit BAC Yomeuno donor authorization
Evidence stage: Reported services delivered
Self-reported programme evidence; no independent outcome audit or current new-gift delivery guarantee.
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Minimum public-source checks passed on 2026-10-05: named identity, official presence, recent reported activity and an authorized giving route with an identifiable recipient.
Minimum public-source checks only. Identity and programme results may be organization-authored. Live registry standing, bank ownership, payment settlement, use of an individual gift and field outcomes were not independently audited. No payment made. Country evidence describes its stated reporting period, not guaranteed delivery today. Organization-authored annual activity is not independent field proof. Partner NGOs pay a 10% contribution toward commercial product value, as stated in the FAQ. Invoice-payment bank instructions were excluded and not used as a donor route.
Official FAQ names Asociación ABACOR and Cédula Jurídica 3-002-662276 as bank client; website explains 2012 Costa Rican establishment. No live registry audit.
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