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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.

$14M
Granted FY2022
12
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Food & Nutrition$246k
02FY2022 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $33,561, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,344,771 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,311,210 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$1,762
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EL PASO FOOD PANTRY: $4k → 7%CLAY COUNTY MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION: $577 → 14%MARSHALL FOOD DISBURSEMENT PROGRAM: $3k → 11%CLAY CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PANTRY: $2k → 14%MARSHALL FOOD DISBURSEMENT PRG: $250 → 11%THE DWELLING PLACE OF VERMILION COUNTY: $250 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$182k · 19 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
30

Total granted

$182k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+31%

Still filing today

32%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FO
    FEEDING OUR KIDS
    4× · 2019–2025 · $73k · revenue +31%
  • MC
    MATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +74%
  • ER
    EMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • MF
    MCKINLEY FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISgraduated
    4× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +31%
  • GL
    GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7k
  • TH
    TUSCOLA HIGH SCHOOL WARRIOR PANTRY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Community Needs of Chillicothe Illinois Inc

Provide temporary assistance to needy individuals. Primary assistance with rent, utilities and food.

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2
Central Illinois Services

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…

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3
Northern Il Helping Hands Food Pantry Nfp

To provide at least 2 days of food to needy families and people.

Food & Nutrition
4
Geneseo-Atkinson Food Pantry

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.

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5
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
6
Chicago Hope Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Illinois Institute for Children

Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care

Human Services
8
Illinois Valley Food Pantry

Providing food to needy families in the illinois valley area.

Food & Nutrition
9
Indiana County Community Action Program

Provide resources for low income clients.

Human Services
10
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.

Food & Nutrition
11
Ravenswood Community Services Inc

Ravenswood community services ("rcs") operates a food pantry and community kitchen for those in need of emergency food on chicago's north side.

Human Services
12
Community Workshop & Training Center Inc

Our central Illinois organization provides programs and services to adults with disabilities; enriching their quality of life, promoting social change, and optimizing their potential for independence.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Service Center of Northern Champaign County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
38/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FEEDING OUR KIDS: $73,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING OUR KIDSMATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER: $20,678 · Food & NutritionMATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTERPALESTINE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $5,325 · Food & NutritionSTANDING STONE COMMUNITY CENTER NFP: $4,590 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $503 · Food & NutritionUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $20,678 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCELIVINGSTON COUNTY COMMUNITY PANTRY: $13,560 · OtherLIVINGSTON COUNTY COMMUNITY PANTRYMT PISGAH FOOD PANTRY: $10,342 · OtherMT PISGAH FOOD PANTRYGRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH: $6,500 · OtherGRACE LUTHERAN CHURCHTUSCOLA HIGH SCHOOL WARRIOR PANTRY: $5,841 · OtherTUSCOLA HIGH SCHOOL WARRIOR PANTRYCUMBERLAND BACKPACK MINISTRY: $4,810 · OtherCHARLESTON AREA CHURCHES FOOD PANTR: $4,506 · OtherMINONK TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY: $4,250 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SPRINGFIELD: $4,000 · OtherUNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,500 · Other+26 more: $22,647 · Other+26 moreMCKINLEY FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $9,220 · EducationCULTIVADORESCULTIVATORS: $6,000 · EducationEMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC: $10,530 · Community ImprovementTHE COMMUNITY WELL: $4,200 · Human ServicesMARSHALL FOOD DISBURSEMENT CENTER: $2,850 · Human ServicesClay County Ministerial Alliance Inc: $2,534 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesCHANNING-MURRAY FOUNDATION: $2,960 · ReligionTHE MASTERS HANDS INC NFP: $2,300 · Philanthropy
Food & Nutrition$104,096Other$100,634Education$15,220Community Improvement$10,530Human Services$9,834Religion$2,960Philanthropy$2,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER: $20,678 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetEMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC: $10,530 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMCKINLEY FOUNDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $9,220 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCULTIVADORESCULTIVATORS: $6,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetSTANDING STONE COMMUNITY CENTER NFP: $4,590 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY WELL: $4,200 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetCHANNING-MURRAY FOUNDATION: $2,960 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMARSHALL FOOD DISBURSEMENT CENTER: $2,850 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetClay County Ministerial Alliance Inc: $2,534 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetTHE MASTERS HANDS INC NFP: $2,300 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetTHE DWELLING PLACE OF VERMILION COUNTY: $250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDAILY BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC: $250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOOPESTON MULTI AGENCY SERVICE: $213 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCLIFTON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $132 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROBINSON AREA FOOD PANTRY: $121 over 9y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE DWELLING PLACE OF VERMILION COUNTY ↗

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.

Community Foundation …United Way of Champai…Iroquois Federal Foun…Wgrc IncJohn P Cadle Foundati…United Way of Coles C…Reichard FoundationThe Meyer Charitable …Southeastern Illinois…Illinois Prairie Comm…Commerce Bancshares F…Northern Illinois Foo…
Community Foundation of East Central IllinoisIL45.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Eastern Illinois Foodbank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eastern Illinois Foodbank. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $20M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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