How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in Illinois?

Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in Illinois, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Feeding America. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Illinois from out of state.

Who is the largest food and agriculture funder in Illinois?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to food and agriculture organizations in Illinois, $39M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in Illinois?

$431M reached 216 food and agriculture organizations in Illinois, from 2,100 funders. 33% came from funders also based in Illinois.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Illinois · Food and agriculture

Who funds food and agriculture in Illinois

Funding is concentrated: Feeding America alone draws 47% of every food and agriculture grant dollar in Illinois. Illinois's food and agriculture organizations are comparatively well-backed, averaging 10 funders each.

$431M

granted

216

organizations

33%

from in-state

The short version

2,100 funders gave $431M to 216 food and agriculture organizations in Illinois across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
33% of that came from funders also based in Illinois; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of food and agriculture in Illinois is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $39M.
The food and agriculture organization drawing the most is Feeding America, at $204M.

Largest funders of food and agriculture in Illinois

The funders giving the most to food and agriculture organizations in Illinois, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$39M 2American Online Giving Foundation Inc$35M 3Feeding America$21M 4The Chicago Community Trust$17M 5Wal-Mart Foundation$15M 6Enterprise Holdings Foundation$13M 7Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$12M 8Northwestern Il Area Agency on Aging$12M 9Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund$11M 10The Blackbaud Giving Fund$10M

Food and agriculture organizations in Illinois that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

Feeding America$204M Greater Chicago Food Depository$65M

206 other food and agriculture organizations$55M

Northern Illinois Food Bank$35M Refed Inc$23M Lifescape Community Services Inc$12M

How to find food and agriculture funders in Illinois

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Start with the funders already active in Illinois
The funders giving the most to food and agriculture in Illinois are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Feeding America. A funder already writing food and agriculture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
67% of food and agriculture money in Illinois comes from funders elsewhere, so national food and agriculture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Illinois.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in Illinois?: Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in Illinois, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Feeding America. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Illinois from out of state.
Who is the largest food and agriculture funder in Illinois?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to food and agriculture organizations in Illinois, $39M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in Illinois?: $431M reached 216 food and agriculture organizations in Illinois, from 2,100 funders. 33% came from funders also based in Illinois.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

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Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.