Our Story

Elevated Pie Co. was founded in 2020 with the mission of doing our part to help alleviate hunger in our community through free meals. Brian Rock and his wife Kimberly noticed the expanding lines at the local food banks in their own community as well as the need for hot meals following a natural disaster. They ordered an oven from Italy and quickly started to find ways to help the community. In August of 2020 a historic Derecho hit Cedar Rapids, Iowa and we were on our way within hours of landfall with some relief in the form of wood fired pizzas. There we served over 500 meals to some residents of the hardest hit areas and a passion was ignited. We have now served over 4,000 meals between three deployments.

We are committed to our communities through our continued efforts in providing hot meals to those in need. We teamed up with Doughnate Pizza (EIN 88-1956722) in 2023, a nonprofit aimed at ending hunger one slice at a time throughout the Midwest with their partner shelters. This partnership enables us to accept tax deductible donations, where applicable.