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, Dairy Promotion Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc. 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, $160M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

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

$1.8B reached 1,141 food and agriculture organizations in Illinois, from 5,320 funders. 31% 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

Illinois's food and agriculture organizations are comparatively well-backed, averaging 5 funders each.

$1.8B

granted

1,141

organizations

31%

from in-state

The short version

5,320 funders gave $1.8B to 1,141 food and agriculture organizations in Illinois across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
31% 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 $160M.
The food and agriculture organization drawing the most is Feeding America, at $717M.

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$160M 2Dairy Promotion Inc$136M 3Lilly Endowment Inc$78M 4American Online Giving Foundation Inc$63M 5Ageoptions Inc (Fka Suburban Area Agency on Aging)$61M 6The Chicago Community Trust$54M 7Feeding America$50M 8Wal-Mart Foundation$35M 9Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$32M 10Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program$29M

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$717M

1,131 other food and agriculture organizations$473M

Greater Chicago Food Depository$173M National Dairy Council$134M Northern Illinois Food Bank$76M

How to find food and agriculture funders in Illinois

1
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, Dairy Promotion Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc. 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
69% 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, Dairy Promotion Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc. 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, $160M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in Illinois?: $1.8B reached 1,141 food and agriculture organizations in Illinois, from 5,320 funders. 31% 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 unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; 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.