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Feeding Illinois

Feeding Illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

$1.4M
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$198k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Food & Nutrition$953k
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $293,308, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,412,408 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,119,100 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.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $44k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $249k
$51,503
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Northern Illinois Food Bank$197,936
St Louis Area Food Bank$51,503
River Bend Food Bank$43,869
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%River Bend Food Bank: $44k → 12%St Louis Area Food Bank: $70k → 11%Tri-State Food Bank: $11k → 15%Northern Illinois Food Bank: $198k → 8%Greater Chicago Food Depository: $123k → 14%Peoria Area Food Bank: $13k → 14%Eastern Illinois Food Bank: $24k → 19%River Bend Food Bank: $21k → 12%St Louis Area Food Bank: $52k → 11%Northern Illinois Food Bank: $180k → 8%Greater Chicago Food Depository: $10k → 14%River Bend Food Bank: $10k → 12%St Louis Area Food Bank: $37k → 11%Northern Illinois Food Bank: $138k → 8%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$882k · 4 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$882k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+41%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • NI
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
    4× · 2020–2023 · $516k · revenue +8%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $159k · revenue -11%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $133k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • EI
    EASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK
    4× · 2020–2023 · $24k · revenue +2%
  • CI
    Central Illinois Foodbank Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $23k · revenue +14%
  • PC
    PEORIA CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INCgraduated
    2× · 2020–2021 · $13k · revenue +41%
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
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc

To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.

Food & Nutrition
4
Food Bank of Southern Iowa

Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.

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5
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
6
Sheboygan County Food Bank Inc

Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
7
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition
9
Southeast Missouri Food Bank Inc

The mission of the southeast missouri food bank is to promote food recovery; acquire and distribute food and household products; and provide community leadership and education on issues of hunger and poverty in an effort to alleviate…

Food & Nutrition
10
The Food Bank of Central Louisiana

To alleviate hunger in central louisiana

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11
Food Bank for the Heartland

To eliminate hunger in the heartland by ensuring consistent access to healthy foods through community partnerships.

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12
Sauk Valley Foodbank

Our mission at the Sauk Valley Foodbank is to help alleviate food insecurity in the Sauk Valley area.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern Illinois Foodbank; the most unlike its peers is Peoria Citizens Committee for Economic Opportunity Inc. 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

8 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.

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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $515,936 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANKGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $132,600 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORYRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $74,713 · Food & NutritionRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR+2 more: $47,400 · Food & Nutrition+2 moreST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $158,703 · OtherST LOUIS AREA FOOD BA…PEORIA CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $12,900 · OtherPEORIA CITIZENS COMMI…TRI-STATE FOOD BANK: $10,900 · OtherTRI-STATE FOOD BANK
Food & Nutrition$770,649Other$182,503

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $515,936 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $158,703 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $132,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $74,713 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK: $24,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Illinois Foodbank Inc: $23,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEORIA CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $12,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-STATE FOOD BANK: $10,900 over 4y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Illinois Children's H…The Woodforest Charit…Feeding AmericaEnterprise Holdings F…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Illinois Children's Healthcare FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation · The Woodforest Charitable Foundation · Feeding America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Feeding Illinois funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Feeding Illinois. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Feeding Illinois?

    Find your warmest path to Feeding Illinois through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 8 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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