· Public charity
Greater Chicago Food Depository
The GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 119 grants below total $1,350,413 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $194,972,410 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $193,621,997 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k78 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $767k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $415k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Moses the Black Parish | $175,000 |
| Care For Real | $134,948 |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $55,000 |
| Chicago CRED | $50,000 |
| Respond Now | $45,349 |
| Circle Urban Ministries | $36,695 |
| Tazewell County Health Department | $32,500 |
| Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc | $30,290 |
| Eastern Il Foodbank | $30,000 |
| St Louis Area Foodbank | $30,000 |
| BUILD Inc | $30,000 |
| Adams County Department of Public Health | $29,250 |
| DuPage County Health Department | $29,250 |
| Sheldon Heights COC | $27,924 |
| St Francis De Sales Svdp | $27,605 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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 +40% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
307 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2025, 233 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $381k 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
- GCGAP COMMUNITY CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +12% · 63% of their budget
- NLNew Life Centers of Chicagoland7× · 2019–2025 · $769k · revenue ×12
- NHNOURISHING HOPE9× · 2017–2025 · $476k · revenue +307%
Funded once
- HCHOPE COMMUNITY ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $126k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $85k
- P1PRODUCEMOBILE 1one grant, 2023 · $78k
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.
To provide additional supportive housing, social, health, and other human services to the indigent and special needs individuals of chicago's inner city population and transitioning the homeless to a life of self- sufficiency and stability.
Our mission is to ensure that Chicago seniors and people with disabilities benefit from nutritious meal programs that improve their quality of life and maximize independence.
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
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To reduce inter-generational poverty by promoting strategies that encourage racial and economic diversity in the housing market, primarily in the chicago area and nationally as well.
The mission of I Grow Chicago is to grow Englewood from surviving to thriving through community connection, skill building, and opportunity.
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.
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.
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 decent, safe and sanitary housing that is affordable to low and moderate-income persons and to stabilize and strengthen communities by improving the local housing stock. the corporation shall administer programs that revitalize…
Chi-Care is an organization that provides food, water and shelter help for Chicagolands homeless and extremely needy. What makes Chi-Care a unique organization is the fact that they go directly to the needy and the areas in need. They…
Hayes Senior Housing Corporation provides housing and services for the elderly, to meet their physical, social, and psycho-social needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Khaan Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
381 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. 381 of the 460 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GAP COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds GROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds New Life Centers of Chicagoland ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds RESPOND NOW ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HUNGER ↗
- Who funds Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP ↗
- Who funds The Friendship Center ↗
- Who funds FIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds All Things Through Christ Outreach Ministries ↗
- Who funds American Association of Single Parents ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CARE FOR REAL ↗
- Who funds PILSEN LITTLE VILLAGE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARK ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds SCHAUMBURG TOWNSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS HOPE LTD ↗
- Who funds CHOSEN TABERNACLE FULL GOSPEL AND BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE COPE ↗
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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Forefront · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · All Chicago Making Homelessness History · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Reva and David Logan Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · Michael Reese Health Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway 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 Greater Chicago Food Depository 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.