· Public charity
Eastern Illinois Foodbank
EASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK exists to alleviate hunger in eastern illinois by providing a reliable source of food for the hungry through cooperation with a network of food pantries and agencies.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $33,561 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,344,771 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,311,210 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIVINGSTON CTY COMMUNITY PANTRY | $8,560 |
| CULTIVADORES PANTRY | $6,000 |
| MT PISGAH FOOD PANTRY | $5,614 |
| CHARLESTON FOOD PANTRY | $3,256 |
| BUCKET BRIGADE | $2,960 |
| MAHOMET HELPING HANDS | $1,762 |
| HOPE FOOD PANTRY | $1,345 |
| CHRISMAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH PANTRY | $999 |
| CISSNA PARK AREA FOOD PANTRY | $949 |
| CHAD DAVID JOHNSON FOOD PANTRY | $878 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL DANVILLE FP | $648 |
| STANDING STONE COMMUNITY CENTER | $590 |
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 (FY19–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% 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 +61% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- FOFEEDING OUR KIDS4× · 2019–2025 · $73k · revenue +31%
- MCMATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +74%
- EREMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- MFMCKINLEY FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISgraduated4× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +31%
- GLGRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH9× · 2017–2025 · $7k
- THTUSCOLA HIGH SCHOOL WARRIOR PANTRY9× · 2017–2025 · $6k
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.
Provide temporary assistance to needy individuals. Primary assistance with rent, utilities and food.
To foster low income housing, develop and promote affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, support community develpment, social services, and educational opportunities for individuals and families throughout menard county and the…
To provide at least 2 days of food to needy families and people.
The Christian mission of the Geneseo-Atkinson food Pantry is to provide food, clothing, and short-term emergency assistance for families and individuals residing in Geneseo (61254) or Atkinson (61235) zip code areas.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
Chicago Hope runs a food pantry twice a week that serves over 100 families. The organization is working toward the furtherance of wrap around services.
Providing food to needy families in the illinois valley area.
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
Provide resources for low income clients.
Ravenswood community services ("rcs") operates a food pantry and community kitchen for those in need of emergency food on chicago's north side.
food pantry
Provide emergency food and shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern Illinois Foodbank and the most unlike its peers is Hand in Hand Day Care & Preschool of the First Presbyterian Church of Tolon. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 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. 50 of the 52 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 FEEDING OUR KIDS ↗
- Who funds MATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds EMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds MCKINLEY FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds CULTIVADORESCULTIVATORS ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds STANDING STONE COMMUNITY CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY WELL ↗
- Who funds CHANNING-MURRAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL FOOD DISBURSEMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Clay County Ministerial Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MASTERS HANDS INC NFP ↗
- Who funds DAILY BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE DWELLING PLACE OF VERMILION COUNTY ↗
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: Community Foundation of East Central Illinois · United Way of Champaign County · Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc · Wgrc Inc · John P Cadle Foundation · United Way of Coles County Inc · Reichard Foundation · The Meyer Charitable Foundation · Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank
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 Eastern Illinois Foodbank 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.