Illinois · Public charity
Chicago Food Policy Action Council
The Organization facilitates and informs the development of and advocacy for responsible policies improving the food sovereignty of Chicago residents as they have power and control to determine culturally appropriate, nutritionally sound and affordable food grown using environmentally sustainable practices.
- $736k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $45,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $168,450
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Chicago Food Policy Action Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 13 | $726k | 77% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $425k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $688k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $1.6M | 93% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $139k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChiFresh Kitchen Cooperative | $1,825,913 | 5 | n/a |
| Opencollective Foundation | $336,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Centro de Trabajadores Unidos | $179,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Food Hero L3C | $101,540 | 2 | n/a |
| Urban Growers Collective Inc | $98,600 | 1 | 2% |
| North Lawndale Greening Committee | $80,000 | 1 | 50% |
| Grace United Church of Christ Sauk Village | $79,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Eighteenth Street Development Corp | $71,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Chicago Urban Farm Solutions | $64,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southside Market Co-op | $62,454 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChiFresh Kitchen Cooperative | $1,825,913 | 5 | n/a |
| Opencollective Foundation | $336,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Centro de Trabajadores Unidos | $179,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Food Hero L3C | $101,540 | 2 | n/a |
| Urban Growers Collective Inc | $98,600 | 1 | 2% |
| North Lawndale Greening Committee | $80,000 | 1 | 50% |
| Grace United Church of Christ Sauk Village | $79,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Eighteenth Street Development Corp | $71,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Chicago Urban Farm Solutions | $64,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southside Market Co-op | $62,454 | 1 | n/a |
| Grow Greater Englewood Inc | $47,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Sunflower Soule Farm llc | $44,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Phoenix Bean LLC | $42,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship | $42,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southland Development Authority Nfp | $40,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Indian Center | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Windy City Mushroom | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kenwood Oakland Community Organization | $38,400 | 1 | 2% |
| Health Policy Institute of Ch | $34,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Upsidedown Consulting LLC | $33,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Oaks Center for Sustainable Renewable Living | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Latin Center | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Housing Helpers Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Puerto Rican Cultural Center | $16,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cultivate Kansas City Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($151k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Chicago Food Policy Action Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Forefront · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Greater Chicago Food Depository · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Grand Victoria Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Women's Business Development Center · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Chicago Food Policy Action Council
- How much does Chicago Food Policy Action Council give?
- Chicago Food Policy Action Council reported 13 grants totaling $736,069 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Chicago Food Policy Action Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (69%), Public Benefit (9%), Community Improvement (6%).
- Who are Chicago Food Policy Action Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: ChiFresh Kitchen Cooperative ($1.8M), Opencollective Foundation ($337k), Centro de Trabajadores Unidos ($179k).
- Does Chicago Food Policy Action Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chicago Food Policy Action Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Forefront, The Chicago Community Trust, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc.
- Where is Chicago Food Policy Action Council based?
- Chicago Food Policy Action Council is based in IL.
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