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Greater Chicago Food Depository

The GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county.

$195M
Granted FY2025still arriving
119
Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$175k
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 2025.

Food & Nutrition$22MHealth$483kHuman Services$353kReligion$249kHousing & Shelter$160kPublic Safety & Disaster$42kCommunity Improvement$38kCrime & Legal$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 119 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 119 grants below total $1,350,413, the rows itemized in this filing. The $194,972,410 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $193,621,997 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k78 grants · $168k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $767k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $415k
$3,760
Median grant
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States reached
$216M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BUILD Inc$30,000
St Louis Area Foodbank$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALICIA'S HOUSE FOOD PANTRY: $9k → 7%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SINGLE PARENTS: $94k → 14%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SINGLE PARENTS: $74k → 14%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SINGLE PARENTS: $63k → 14%BLUE CAP: $22k → 14%BLUE CAP: $8k → 14%PALATINE TOWNSHIP: $18k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $29k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $27k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $27k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY HOUSE: $9k → 14%POLISH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%WESTCHESTER FOOD PANTRY: $46k → 14%CARE FOR REAL: $80k → 14%INSPIRATION CORPORATION: $32k → 14%RAVENSWOOD COMMUNITY SVCS PY: $28k → 14%INSPIRATION CORPORATION: $18k → 14%EZRA MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $13k → 14%CARE FOR REAL: $12k → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $124k → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $13k → 14%UCP SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO FOOD HUB: $8k → 14%CBS ANTI-HUNGER FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $20k → 14%NORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $42k → 14%NORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $37k → 14%NORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $27k → 14%BETHEL NEW LIFE: $14k → 14%RESPOND NOW: $84k → 14%CASA CENTRAL-LA POSADA: $8k → 14%PILSEN FOOD PANTRY: $84k → 14%CHICAGO HOPE INC: $12k → 14%PILSEN FOOD PANTRY: $168k → 14%FIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION: $32k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $19k → 14%TRINITY CHARITIES INC: $15k → 14%TRINITY CHARITIES INC: $14k → 14%NEW ECLIPSE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $76k → 14%NEW ECLIPSE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $28k → 14%CENTRAL AMERICAN MARTYRS CTRSU CASA: $9k → 14%NEW ECLIPSE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $9k → 14%CIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES: $96k → 14%CIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES: $29k → 14%CIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES: $22k → 14%LIFE IMPACTERS FOUNDATION: $63k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $39k → 14%THE ARK: $173k → 14%SANAD ORGANIZATION: $99k → 14%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 307 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

307
128

Total granted

$22M
$824k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+18%

Still filing today

46%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $381k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEducationCommunity 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

  • GC
    GAP COMMUNITY CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +12% · 63% of their budget
  • NL
    New Life Centers of Chicagoland
    7× · 2019–2025 · $769k · revenue ×12
  • NH
    NOURISHING HOPE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $476k · revenue +307%

Funded once

  • HC
    HOPE COMMUNITY ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $126k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $85k
  • P1
    PRODUCEMOBILE 1
    one grant, 2023 · $78k
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
Top Box Foods

Hunger relief organization that creates access in food deserts and underserved communities to affordable local, healthy and delicious foods.

Food & Nutrition
2
Meals On Wheels Chicago

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.

Food & Nutrition
3
Illinois Presbyterian Home

Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises

Human Services
4
Human Resources Council Inc

None

Human Services
5
Hcp of Illinois Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
I Grow Chicago Nfp

The mission of I Grow Chicago is to grow Englewood from surviving to thriving through community connection, skill building, and opportunity.

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7
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness

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.

Housing & Shelter
8
Southwest Chicago Homeless Services

To provide food, clothing, case management and placement in housing, as well as referrals for additional supportive services. a commitment to helping homeless and housing-insecure persons and strive to end homelessness in our communities…

Human Services
9
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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10
The Affordable Housing Corporation of Lake County

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…

Human Services
11
Hayes Senior Housing Corporation

Hayes Senior Housing Corporation provides housing and services for the elderly, to meet their physical, social, and psycho-social needs.

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12
Chi-Care

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

381 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
86
Early backer (in before they grew)
353/381
Grantees still filing
258/381
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $1,721,105 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEGENERAL COUNCIL ON FINANCE & ADMINS OF THE UNITED: $574,492 · OtherEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA: $497,432 · OtherNOURISHING HOPE: $475,774 · Other+131 more: $8,843,838 · Other+131 moreRESPOND NOW: $417,520 · Human ServicesRESPOND NOWFIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION: $297,349 · Human ServicesFIGUEROA WU FA…American Association of Single Parents: $239,490 · Human ServicesAmerican Assoc…CARE FOR REAL: $237,051 · Human ServicesCARE FOR REALCIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES: $192,257 · Human ServicesCIRCLE URBAN M…THE ARK: $174,886 · Human ServicesTHE ARKTOGETHER WE COPE: $144,562 · Human ServicesNEW ECLIPSE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $122,945 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $113,642 · Human ServicesNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $107,505 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ARAB AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT: $102,905 · Human Services+19 more: $579,734 · Human Services+19 moreGROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC: $1,000,000 · Food & NutritionGROW GREATER…BEYOND HUNGER: $307,431 · Food & NutritionBEYOND HUNGE…The Friendship Center: $299,579 · Food & NutritionThe Friendsh…GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $165,800 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHIC…SHEPHERDS HOPE LTD: $161,979 · Food & NutritionSHEPHERDS HO…NEW HOPE HOUSE NORTHWEST D/B/A NEW HOPE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $137,164 · Food & NutritionNEW HOPE HOU…NILES TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY FOUNDATION: $131,646 · Food & NutritionOrland Township Food Pantry FDN: $112,798 · Food & Nutrition+5 more: $181,856 · Food & Nutrition+5 moreGAP COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,710,950 · Housing & ShelterGAP COMMU…+5 more: $98,403 · Housing & Shelter+5 moreINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $1,014,641 · Community ImprovementTHORNTON TOWNSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $91,000 · Community ImprovementTeamwork Englewood Inc: $48,000 · Community Improvement+5 more: $115,960 · Community ImprovementNew Life Centers of Chicagoland: $768,641 · Youth DevelopmentAll Things Through Christ Outreach Ministries: $250,992 · ReligionCHOSEN TABERNACLE FULL GOSPEL AND BAPTIST CHURCH: $149,882 · ReligionHEALING TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST 1: $92,750 · ReligionTHE APOSTOLIC CHURCH: $41,588 · ReligionOlive Branch Mission: $37,960 · Religion+2 more: $27,950 · Religion
Other$12,112,641Human Services$2,729,846Food & Nutrition$2,498,253Housing & Shelter$1,809,353Community Improvement$1,269,601Youth Development$768,641Religion$601,122

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGAP COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,710,950 over 5y, 63% of budgetINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $1,014,641 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetGROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetNew Life Centers of Chicagoland: $768,641 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $475,774 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetRESPOND NOW: $417,520 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetBEYOND HUNGER: $307,431 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetAbove and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP: $303,147 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetThe Friendship Center: $299,579 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetFIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION: $297,349 over 6y, 21% of budgetCOMMON PANTRY: $289,527 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetAll Things Through Christ Outreach Ministries: $250,992 over 9y, 32% of budgetAmerican Association of Single Parents: $239,490 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $237,373 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCARE FOR REAL: $237,051 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetPILSEN LITTLE VILLAGE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $218,751 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES: $192,257 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetRESTORATION MINISTRIES INC: $182,590 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ARK: $174,886 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $165,800 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSCHAUMBURG TOWNSHIP FOUNDATION: $163,307 over 9y, 66% of budgetSHEPHERDS HOPE LTD: $161,979 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetCHOSEN TABERNACLE FULL GOSPEL AND BAPTIST CHURCH: $149,882 over 9y, 37% of budgetTOGETHER WE COPE: $144,562 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetNEW HOPE HOUSE NORTHWEST D/B/A NEW HOPE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $137,164 over 7y, 11% of budgetNILES TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY FOUNDATION: $131,646 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetEDWARD G IRVIN FOUNDATION: $130,925 over 6y, 36% of budgetA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $123,617 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetNEW ECLIPSE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $122,945 over 9y, 22% of budgetNORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $113,642 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetOrland Township Food Pantry FDN: $112,798 over 9y, 51% of budgetNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $107,505 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ARAB AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT: $102,905 over 4y, 48% of budgetTHORNTON TOWNSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $91,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetONWARD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $82,251 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetInspiration Corporation: $63,795 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetLIFE IMPACTERS FOUNDATION: $62,950 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetJesus Word Center Church: $55,427 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $55,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHoward Area Community Center: $51,495 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetChicago Cred Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWESTCHESTER FOOD PANTRY: $49,926 over 9y, 16% of budgetI AM ABLE CENTER FOR FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $49,796 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH: $48,579 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTeamwork Englewood Inc: $48,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRAVENSWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $41,937 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetTHE APOSTOLIC CHURCH: $41,588 over 8y, 66% of budgetOperation Blessing of Southwest Chicagoland: $38,575 over 9y, 1.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

United Way of Metropo…Robert R McCormick Fo…ForefrontPolk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…All Chicago Making Ho…George M Eisenberg Fo…Reva and David Logan …WP & HB White Foundat…Michael Reese Health …Lloyd a Fry FoundationBlowitz-Ridgeway Foun…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL96.8× affinity92 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Greater Chicago Food Depository funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Chicago Food Depository. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 460 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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