Rogerson Communities has received a $25,000 grant from The Boston Foundation to alleviate food insecurity among Boston’s older adults. The award, called Meeting the Moment: Sustaining Families, is a one-year grant in support of costs related to food distribution to underserved populations around the city.

Access to nutrition is a key component of Rogerson’s mission to enhance the well-being of older adults. The organization plans to use the grant funds to help feed participants in its Adult Day Health (ADH) program, which incorporates a meals program.

Last year, nearly one in three adults in Massachusetts experienced food insecurity in the prior 12 months, according to The Cost of Hunger in Massachusetts, a survey of 3,000 adults across the Commonwealth by the Greater Boston Food Bank in collaboration with Mass General Brigham. This insecurity, especially when combined with last year’s cuts to SNAP benefits, impacts older adults on fixed incomes particularly hard, with rates rising from 13 percent to 31 percent over the past five years. Many of the participants in Rogerson’s ADH program rely on the meals provided for their primary source of daily nutrition.

“We’re grateful to The Boston Foundation,” said Walter Ramos, President and CEO of Rogerson Communities, “not only for this generous funding for older adult nutrition and food security, but also for their many years of steadfast support for our organization.”

Ties between Rogerson Communities and The Boston Foundation are long-established. In 1915, Boston attorney Charles M. Rogerson helped found the Permanent Charity Fund for Boston, which would later become The Boston Foundation. His partner in the effort: his father, Charles E. Rogerson, a financier and early president and director of Boston’s Home for Aged Men, which would later become Rogerson Communities.

“Data show that older adults are among the most vulnerable groups when safety net programs are pulled back or cut,” said Candace Burton, Senior Program Officer at the Boston Foundation. “We are pleased to partner with Rogerson Communities as they continue their 165-year legacy of protecting and support the needs of older adults with food, housing, and other services.”