Skaneateles, N.Y. -- Jeff Knauss started out with a modest goal: Raise $10,000 to help feed families who are losing their SNAP benefits this weekend.

In less than 48 hours, he blew that number out of the water, raising $150,000.

But the truly shocking figure was the people who asked for help: 32,641.

"Unfortunately, the need continues to outweigh everyone’s incredible generosity," Knauss wrote in a social media post. He said he is pausing applications at this point. It would take a “miracle” just to fill the applications he has now, he wrote.

He would need more than $4 million to buy each of them a $150 gift card to help ease the loss of their grocery money.

And that’s still just a fraction of the money families will lose this weekend when they don’t receive the federal food stamp

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