The purpose of this article is to describe and analyse the growth in food aidin Sweden, and how it affects the non-profit organisations providing it. The partic-ular type of food aid in focus is large-scale collaborations between charitable non-profit organisations and the food industry, through which food surplus is turned intofood aid for people in food insecurity. The first examples of such food aid emergedless than 10 years ago in Sweden, but it has since experienced a dramatic growth. Thedevelopment in Sweden follows a pattern known from many other Europeancountries, with the exception that it is going faster, as if Sweden is catching up. Thismakes food aid in Sweden an interesting case for an empirical study. The article isbased on an interview study performed in 2022. Staff and managers at two large,national organisations were interviewed about how the rapid growth in food aid hasaffected their work and the institutional logics of their organisations. They alsoprovided their thoughts on the role of food aid in Swedish society. One of the mainfindings is that the growth in food aid bring both the benefit of more people in needreceiving help, and the challenge of strain as well as concerns regarding ethics andmission drift in the organisations. Another finding is that the growth is driven byboth a growth in demand for food aid, but also by a growth in supply of food from thecharities and their corporate partnerships