Roughly 3,500 pounds of food — that's the amount Damien's Food Pantry won’t receive from the Greater Boston Food Bank due to cuts to the Department of Agriculture under the administration of President Donald Trump.

Damien’s receives 7,000 pounds of produce, proteins, dairy products and other staples twice a week from Boston. The loss equates to the amount of food the Wareham pantry would distribute in a day or about 1% of the food it provides in a year.

Executive Director Rachel Resendes said at the moment the impact from federal cuts is “not that grave” but the organization will still need to “hustle” and lean on “community support.”

On March 27, representatives from the USDA told Massachusetts officials that $3.4 million allocated to the Emergency Food Assistance Program had been canceled. Two thirds of that money, about $2.3 million, was destined for the Greater Boston Food Bank which would have used it to distribute approximately 105,000 cases of food to its network of 600 food banks across Eastern Massachusetts — including Damien's Food Pantry.

“I’m not going to deny the fact that it is very grave for those smaller pantries that maybe only serve 60 people in a small place, that is going to make a huge impact on them,” Resendes said.

However, Damien’s serves hundreds of food-insecure people each week. The lost 3,500 pounds of food make up a relatively small portion of the pantry’s supply — and for now Resendes said the federal budget slashing is "manageable.”

Damien’s Food Pantry has connections with almost every local grocery store, as well as Target, Walmart, several local bakeries and farms like Frogfoot.

“Our eggs are never in one basket,” Resendes said. “I have a wonderful group of volunteers that take their time non-stop to make sure we’re making this happen.”

However, if federal cuts to food bank funding continued, people who use Damien’s service would notice, Resendes said.

“If this continues like this for a long period of time and the 3,500 [pounds] turns into 7,000 turns into 15,000, we’re diminished,” she said.

To cut costs and continue to serve the same amount of people, the quality of food Damien's offers would have to decrease. The pantry would not be able to provide the same number of “healthy viable options, which everyone deserves, especially our elderly and veterans,” Resendes said.

“I don’t want to downsize what this is at all. There’s certain things I feel need to be here no matter what in this country,” she said.