· 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.
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 93 grants below total $552,820 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $161,591,744 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $161,038,924 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 $10k75 grants · $252k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $301k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St John Lutheran Church | $30,725 |
| Neighborhood FP at Fremont | $28,287 |
| Avon Cares Food Pantry | $24,000 |
| The Outreach House | $23,674 |
| Elmhurst Yorkfield Food Pantry | $20,000 |
| Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry | $20,000 |
| St Elizabeth's Center Food Pantry | $15,533 |
| Pecatonica Community Food Pantry | $15,518 |
| Salvation Army Freeport Food Pantry | $14,940 |
| Holy Angels Pantry | $13,359 |
| Salvation Army Soup Kitchen Kankakee | $12,798 |
| Wayne Township Pantry | $12,677 |
| Neighborhood FP at Resurrection | $12,560 |
| Rock River Valley Pantry | $12,249 |
| DuPage Township | $11,799 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +71% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
179 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2025, 112 since wound down; 7 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- MWMARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $189k · revenue +270%
- LFLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +124%
- FFFOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- PLPROVISION LAB INC5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue -46% · 38% of their budget
- TPTHE PENTECOSTAL CHURCHES OF THE APOSTOLIC FAITH INTERNATIONAL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $27k
- DGDOWNERS GROVE AREA FISH INC6× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +7%
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.
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.
Providing nutritious food to low income families and individuals in south clatsop county
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…
We believe that food is a human right and that food has the power to bring people together. Our vision is to build a stronger, healthier, and hunger-free Coralville community. Powered by community support, the Coralville Community Food…
Provide emergency food for those in need.
Faith Feeds Food Pantry, Inc. supports food-insecure populations of Chicagos northwest suburbs.Their mobile food pantry ensures access to essential resources by bringing food directly to those who cant reach the pantry.
To fight hunger and poverty by providing food, education, programs and resources to families in a dignified, personal and expeditious manner directly as a food pantry and as a food bank; without zip code restrictions.
The organization operates a food bank which provides food for at risk households.
Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.
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.
Providing food to needy families in the illinois valley area.
Providing food to those in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Roberti Community House. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
275 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 275 of the 471 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 MARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC ↗
- Who funds MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Food Pantries ↗
- Who funds 4 KIDS SAKE INC ↗
- Who funds Impacting Veterans Lives Inc dba Midwest Veterans Closet ↗
- Who funds THE OUTREACH HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FAITH ACRES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENDALL COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BARB FOOD MART NFP ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds SAND LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
- Who funds BENSENVILLE WOOD DALE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds D300 Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds WAYNE TOWNSHIP PANTRY AND SENIOR SERVICES NFP ↗
- Who funds RAHMAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLSTEN HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT NFP ↗
- Who funds AURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds HCS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CLUB APASEO EL ALTO ↗
- Who funds PROVISION LAB INC ↗
- Who funds GLEN ELLYN FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ROCHELLE CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL LAKE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Agape Community Outreach Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION OF NEW LENOX TOWNSHIP ↗
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: 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
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 Northern Illinois Food Bank 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.