· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $213k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $497k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ChiFresh Kitchen | $168,450 |
| North Lawndale Greening Committee | $80,000 |
| Food Hero L3C | $67,540 |
| Chicago Urban Farm Solutions | $64,000 |
| Southside Market Co-op | $62,454 |
| Zumwalt Acres Farm | $54,625 |
| Roots Eggs and Greens | $45,000 |
| Sunflower Soule Farm llc | $44,000 |
| Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship | $42,000 |
| Phoenix Bean LLC | $42,000 |
| Windy City Mushroom | $40,000 |
| West Michigan Sustainable Business | $8,000 |
| CultivateKC | $8,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +433% since the first grant, against +65% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $445k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CKChiFresh Kitchen Cooperative5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M
OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $337k · revenue -100%- CDCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS2× · 2021–2023 · $179k · revenue +433%
Funded once
- UGURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INCone grant, 2021 · $99k · revenue +6%
- ESEIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2021 · $72k · revenue +69%
- B1BYP 100 Chicagoone grant, 2021 · $56k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition's Guaranteed Green Sustainability Education Program educates foodservice operators about assessing the present state of their operation's environmental sustainability and helps them to develop a plan to…
Green city market is securing the future of food by deepening support for sustainable farmers, educating our community, and expanding access to locally-grown food.
SECC collaborates with other University of Chicago businesses and organizations to foster a spirit of community and to enhance ongoing quality of life across neighborhoods it serves
Growing home is a nonprofit usda-certified organic farm and workforce development center, serving the greater englewood community of chicago through innovative paid employment training and nutritious, affordable produce. we believe…
Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.
The CO-OP ED Center NFP is an organization committed to building democratic worker-owned businesses in Chicagoland that contribute to a strong local economy and invest in community development. Its a purpose is to train, develop and…
At farmers rising, we lift up the people doing local and regenerative farming.
North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Strengthen companies in the kinzie industrial corridor and facilitate economic and community development by providing services and incubator space.
The greater southwest development corporation is the catalyst for creating and maintaining a vital greater southwest chicago community. empowering, building, and sustaining development raises the quality of life for our neighborhood…
Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Indian Center and the most unlike its peers is West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS ↗
- Who funds URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE GREENING COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds GROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship ↗
- Who funds SOUTHLAND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY NFP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds Kenwood Oakland Community Organization ↗
- Who funds BLACK OAKS CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE RENEWABLE LIVING ↗
- Who funds Latin Center ↗
- Who funds HOUSING HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FORUM ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Chicago Food Policy Action Council funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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