How much does Northern Illinois Food Bank give?

Northern Illinois Food Bank reported 93 itemized grants totaling $552,820, out of $161,591,744 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 318 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Northern Illinois Food Bank fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (99%), Religion (1%), Human Services (0%).

Who are Northern Illinois Food Bank's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United States Catholic Conference ($276k), Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry Inc ($189k), The Salvation Army ($176k).

Does Northern Illinois Food Bank fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Northern Illinois Food Bank?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bersted Foundation, Feeding America, The Dupage Community Foundation.

Where is Northern Illinois Food Bank based?

Northern Illinois Food Bank is based in IL.

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Illinois · Public charity

Northern Illinois Food Bank

With the support of our community, we provide over 90 million meals annually through our network of over 900 member food pantries and programs across thirteen counties, currently reaching over a half million individuals each month with increased access to nutritious food and resources.

$162M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 93
Itemized grants FY2025: 66
Organizations funded FY2024: 11%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $553k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $3,750
Largest grant, FY2025: $30,725
Organizations funded a year: 36 to 318; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $76M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Northern Illinois Food Bank funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterReligionCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	74	$553k	9%
FY2024	66	$768k	11%
FY2023	107	$537k	34%
FY2022	69	$1.3M	26%
FY2021	80	$1.1M	59%
FY2020	318	$694k	80%
FY2019	36	$149k	67%
FY2018	49	$85k	94%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$5.2MReligion$30kHuman Services$21kHealth$18kHousing & Shelter$3kInternational$3kYouth Development$2kCrime & Legal$903Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
United States Catholic Conference	$276,429	6	n/a
Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry Inc	$188,564	7	3%
The Salvation Army	$175,622	6	n/a
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	$174,525	6	n/a
Loaves & Fishes Community Services	$149,627	9	1%
Food for Greater Elgin Inc	$146,429	9	2%
Morning Star Mission Ministries Inc	$141,930	9	1%
Neighborhood Food Pantries	$123,822	5	1%
Friends of Joseph & Sarah Levy Senior Center	$122,889	6	n/a
4 Kids Sake Inc	$115,319	5	20%

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All grantees of Northern Illinois Food Bank by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
United States Catholic Conference	$276,429	6	n/a
Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry Inc	$188,564	7	3%
The Salvation Army	$175,622	6	n/a
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	$174,525	6	n/a
Loaves & Fishes Community Services	$149,627	9	1%
Food for Greater Elgin Inc	$146,429	9	2%
Morning Star Mission Ministries Inc	$141,930	9	1%
Neighborhood Food Pantries	$123,822	5	1%
Friends of Joseph & Sarah Levy Senior Center	$122,889	6	n/a
4 Kids Sake Inc	$115,319	5	20%
Impacting Veterans Lives Inc dba Midwest Veterans Closet	$105,774	5	4%
The Outreach House	$104,996	5	8%
Faith Acres Foundation Inc	$89,016	6	1%
Kendall County Community Food Pantry Inc	$77,479	8	1%
Barb Food Mart Nfp	$75,280	9	24%
Dekalb County Community Gardens	$72,945	5	3%
Sand Lake Baptist Church	$68,503	5	89%
Avon Cares Food Pantry	$67,319	8	n/a
Bensenville Wood Dale Food Pantry	$66,216	8	3%
D300 Food Pantry	$65,038	9	23%
Wayne Township Pantry and Senior Services Nfp	$61,854	9	9%
Rahmah Foundation Inc	$60,000	5	9%
Holsten Human Capital Development Nfp	$58,440	5	1%
Iglesia Casa de Vida	$53,855	6	n/a
Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry	$53,119	9	0%
Hcs Family Services	$53,000	6	1%
Club Apaseo El Alto	$50,775	6	10%
Provision Lab Inc	$50,200	5	38%
Glen Ellyn Food Pantry	$45,077	9	1%
Rochelle Christian Food Pantry	$45,026	9	25%
Crystal Lake Food Pantry Inc	$40,441	9	1%
Agape Community Outreach Mission Inc	$40,328	5	14%
The General Council of the Assemblies of God	$40,093	5	n/a
Pecatonica Community Food Pantry	$39,472	8	n/a
Spanish Community Center	$37,886	9	1%
Lifechanging Community Development Corporation Nfp	$35,000	3	n/a
Faith Movers Church	$34,932	9	n/a
Family Services Foundation of New Lenox Township	$34,550	6	13%
North Grove Evangelical Church	$32,776	6	n/a
Mount Zion Baptist Church of Joliet Illinois	$31,996	5	n/a
West Suburban Community Pantry Inc	$31,646	9	0%
Milton Township Food Pantry Inc	$31,500	6	13%
Open Arms Mission Nfp	$30,665	5	3%
Coal City Food Pantry	$28,378	9	n/a
New Jerusalem Church Food Pantry	$28,112	6	n/a
Harvest Bible Chapel	$28,070	6	n/a
Souls Harbor Food Pantry	$27,959	9	n/a
Elmhurst-Yorkfield Food Pantry	$26,550	9	1%
The Pentecostal Churches of the Apostolic Faith International Inc	$26,500	5	n/a
Warren Sharpe Community Center	$26,083	9	1%
Downers Grove Area Fish Inc	$24,750	6	8%
North Point Church Food Pantry	$23,711	6	n/a
First United Methodist Church	$23,703	6	n/a
People's Resource Center	$23,560	6	0%
Phoenix Rising Foundation	$22,754	6	n/a
Lord of Glory Lutheran Church	$22,570	6	n/a
Presbyterian Church USA	$21,643	6	n/a
General Assembly of the Christian Church Disciples of Christ Inc	$21,534	5	n/a
Hanover Township Foundation	$21,000	5	6%
Plainfield Area Interfaith Food Pantry	$20,577	9	24%
Alpine Chapel	$20,532	9	n/a
Voices of Inspiration	$20,000	4	n/a
The Humanitarian Service Project	$19,500	9	1%
Rock House Kids	$18,851	8	1%
Lords Lambs Ministries	$18,849	6	n/a
Cool Ministries	$18,786	5	1%
Friends of York Township	$18,500	6	20%
Family Outreach Program Inc	$17,274	9	7%
Community Action Partnership of Lake County	$17,088	6	0%
Serenity House Counseling Services Inc	$16,726	9	0%
Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren	$16,200	6	n/a
Jackson Creek Fellowship	$16,127	7	n/a
Christian Union Food Pantry	$16,121	6	n/a
Sharefest Will County	$16,000	4	18%
The Addison Township Foundation	$15,000	6	7%
We Care of Grundy County Inc	$14,034	9	1%
Shelter Care Ministries	$13,875	9	1%
Illinois Baptist State Association	$13,700	6	n/a
The Salvation Army	$13,613	5	n/a
Romeoville Community Pantry NFP Inc	$13,302	6	3%
Rock River Valley Pantry	$13,301	9	1%
Waukegan Baptist Bible Church	$13,249	5	n/a
Umma	$13,026	9	1%
Kankakee County Community Services Inc	$12,998	5	0%
Between Friends Food Pantry of Sugar Grove	$11,614	9	10%
Forest Park Community Center	$11,508	8	9%
Community Christian Church of Lake County	$11,426	2	n/a
Hinckley Area Food Pantry	$10,933	9	11%
Cary Grove Food Pantry	$10,728	9	4%
Dellwood Foundation Inc	$10,400	6	n/a
Hope Food Distribution Services	$10,194	9	n/a
Fish Food Pantry	$10,000	6	0%
Pioneer Center for Human Services	$10,000	5	0%
Gospel Outreach of Freeport	$9,738	4	n/a
St Peter Church	$9,200	6	n/a
Waukegan Christian Faith Fellowship Church Inc	$8,833	6	n/a
Durand Area Food Pantry	$7,749	4	5%
Mt Morris Loaves & Fish Nfp	$7,725	5	6%
Shiloh Baptist Church	$7,586	6	n/a
Emmanuel Faith Bible Christian Center	$7,459	6	n/a
Galapagos Community Services Nfp Inc	$7,404	2	n/a
Amity Society of Freeport Inc	$6,749	6	0%
Icna Relief USA Programs Inc	$6,558	6	0%
Woodstock Food Pantry	$6,426	9	1%
The African Methodist Epsicopal Church Incorporated	$6,377	6	n/a
Batavia Interfaith Food Pantry	$6,340	9	0%
Brown Bear Corporation D/B/A Brown Bear Daycare	$6,250	6	0%
Hearts That Care Inc	$6,226	9	n/a
Neighbors in Christ Ecumenical	$6,015	6	9%
Village Baptist Church of Aurora Il	$6,000	6	n/a
Silver Creek Reformed Church	$5,852	5	n/a
The United Church of Christ	$5,844	3	n/a
Church of the Brethren	$5,726	3	n/a
Society of St Vincent de Paul-St Pius X Conference	$5,637	4	2%
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church	$5,628	3	n/a
Grafton Township Food Pantry	$5,426	9	2%
Safe Passage Inc	$5,377	9	0%
Emmanuel Lutheran Church	$5,266	6	n/a
REACH Ministries Inc	$5,148	9	23%
Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill	$5,000	2	0%
Glory Tabernacle Church	$4,834	5	n/a
Our Sharing Pantry	$4,775	5	n/a
Lifespring Community Churhc of Plainfield	$4,500	5	n/a
Here for You Nfp	$4,409	2	n/a
Remedies Renewing Lives	$4,136	9	0%
Moraine Township Charitable Fund Charitable Fund	$4,052	9	1%
Mount Sinai Institutional Baptist Church	$4,013	6	n/a
The Chapel of Lake County	$4,000	6	n/a
St Joseph Parish & School	$4,000	6	n/a
Neighborhood FP at Immanuel	$3,864	1	n/a
Luke 311 Share Center Nfp	$3,854	5	1%
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod	$3,827	3	n/a
El Puente Latino	$3,796	9	n/a
Community Care Center	$3,749	6	n/a
Fish of McHenry	$3,677	9	2%
Community Crisis Center Inc	$3,677	9	0%
Lifeline Food and Self Help Project	$3,576	9	7%
Countryside Food Pantry Inc	$3,555	9	n/a
Will County Baptist Temple	$3,500	6	n/a
Harvard Community Food Pantry Inc	$3,426	8	1%
North American Lutheran Church	$3,377	2	n/a
Second Baptist Church	$3,375	1	n/a
Mission Bible Church	$3,249	3	n/a
Northern Il Helping Hands Food Pantry Nfp	$3,249	5	1%
National Hook-Up of Black Womenjoliet Chapter	$3,126	4	0%
Evangel Assembly of God	$3,000	6	n/a
Marengo Area Outreach Enterprises	$3,000	6	1%
Wesley United Methodist Church	$2,949	6	n/a
Wayside Cross Ministries	$2,860	9	n/a
Polo Lifeline Food and Self Help Project	$2,749	6	4%
Evangelical Covenant Church	$2,749	6	n/a
Manteno Community Interfaith Commission of Manteno Illinois	$2,749	5	n/a
Manna-Fest Ministries	$2,749	4	n/a
Faith Community Church	$2,749	6	n/a
Calvary Lighthouse Church	$2,749	5	n/a
Cornerstone Church	$2,749	6	n/a
Mt Moriah Christian Center Food Pantry	$2,749	6	n/a
Compassionate Ministries Center of Hope	$2,749	6	1%
Liberation Worship Center	$2,749	3	n/a
His Helping Hands Inc	$2,749	3	3%
Faith Center Freeport	$2,749	6	n/a
Faith Baptist Church	$2,749	6	n/a
National Council of the US Society of St Vincent de Paul Inc	$2,729	6	0%
Woodstock Bible Church	$2,419	2	n/a
Outreach Community Ministries	$2,293	2	0%
Firstborn Ministries Food Pantry	$2,210	5	n/a
Harvey Brooks Motivation & Development Foundation	$2,200	6	n/a
Empower Boone Inc	$2,000	8	n/a
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	$2,000	6	n/a
Dupage Pads Inc	$1,677	5	0%
Northwestern Illinois Community Action Agency	$1,300	5	0%
Deliverance Outreach Center Inc	$1,227	3	n/a
First Assembly of God Church	$1,227	8	n/a
Fellowship Bible Church - Joliet	$1,220	6	n/a
Center for Information of Elgin (Centro de Informacion)	$1,177	9	0%
First Baptist Church of Lake Forestillinois	$1,150	3	n/a
Frankfort Township Charities	$1,000	6	0%
St Anastasia School	$844	5	n/a
Kitchen Table Inc	$844	4	1%
Most Blessed Trinity Soup Kitchen	$844	5	n/a
Christ Episcopal Church	$844	6	n/a
Evangelical Lutheran Church of All Saints	$800	1	n/a
St Bridget Church	$727	9	n/a
YMCA of Rock River Valley	$726	2	0%
Garden of Prayer Youth Center Inc	$726	9	0%
St Josephs Church	$677	3	n/a
Christian Worship Center	$677	8	n/a
Restoration Christian Church	$677	3	n/a
German Valley Food Pantry	$677	3	n/a
Green Harvest Food Pantry Inc	$677	6	0%
Lockport Fish Food Pantry	$677	5	0%
Burlington-Hampshire Area Food Pantry	$677	6	1%
All Peoples Interfaith Food Pantry	$677	9	1%
Wildwood Presbyterian Church	$677	4	n/a
Vernon Township Food Pantry Inc	$677	7	n/a
Center of Hope	$677	3	n/a
Assisi Homes of Gurnee Inc	$677	9	0%
Life Changers International Church	$677	9	n/a
Hebron Community Food Pantry	$677	3	n/a
Harvest Bible Chapel Crystal Lake	$677	3	n/a
Spartan Food Pantry	$677	6	n/a
Interfaith Food Pantry Inc	$677	9	n/a
Salem Lutheran Church	$677	9	n/a
Association for Individual Development	$677	6	0%
First United Methodist Church	$677	1	n/a
Hands of Hope Food Pantry Inc	$677	3	n/a
St Thomas the Apostle Catholic Parish	$677	9	n/a
Greater Grace World Outreach Inc	$500	2	n/a
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Joliet	$500	6	0%
First Baptist Church of Geneva	$500	5	n/a
Sandwich Board	$500	2	n/a
Helmar Lutheran Congregation	$500	6	n/a
General Council on Finance & Admins of the United	$334	5	n/a
Society of St Vincent de Paul Rockford Council	$250	6	0%
Independence Center Inc	$226	9	0%
Childrens Learning Center Inc	$226	9	0%
Patriots' Gateway Community Center	$226	2	0%
Lake County Crisis Center	$226	4	0%
Elgin Evangelical Free Church	$226	4	n/a
Little City Foundation	$226	7	0%
Episcopal Church of the Redeemer	$226	3	n/a
Norman C Sleezer Youth Home	$226	8	0%
Mount St Joseph	$226	9	0%
Hope for Tomorrow Inc	$226	9	0%
Gps Faith Community	$226	1	n/a
Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries	$226	9	0%
Voluntary Action Center of Northern Illinois	$226	7	n/a
360 Youth Services	$226	8	0%
Midwest Shelter for Homeless Veterans Inc	$226	2	0%
Barb City Manor Inc	$226	5	0%
Riverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action	$226	3	0%
New Hope Missionary Baptist Food Pantry	$150	1	n/a
Westosha Lakes Church	$150	5	n/a
Evangelical Free Church of Lena	$150	1	n/a
Highpoint Church	$100	1	n/a
The Church of the Holy Spirit	$50	5	n/a
First United Methodist Church Dekalb	$41	1	n/a

Plus 234 recipients with no EIN on record ($605k), not named here.

Northern Illinois Food Bank supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 114 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 114.

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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.

The Bersted FoundationTX51.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bersted Foundation · Feeding America · The Dupage Community Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Community Foundation of Northern IL · Give N Kind · Greater Chicago Food Depository · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Dekalb County Community Foundation · Dan Gibbons Turkey Trot Foundation Nfp · United Way of Rock River Valley

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.

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About Northern Illinois Food Bank

How much does Northern Illinois Food Bank give?: Northern Illinois Food Bank reported 93 itemized grants totaling $552,820, out of $161,591,744 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 318 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Northern Illinois Food Bank fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (99%), Religion (1%), Human Services (0%).
Who are Northern Illinois Food Bank's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United States Catholic Conference ($276k), Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry Inc ($189k), The Salvation Army ($176k).
Does Northern Illinois Food Bank fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Northern Illinois Food Bank?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bersted Foundation, Feeding America, The Dupage Community Foundation.
Where is Northern Illinois Food Bank based?: Northern Illinois Food Bank is based in IL.