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CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY

CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,152 to it, the largest being THE GERHARD & PATRICIA WEILER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($24,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$197k
Revenue FY2025
11
Funders on record
$76k
Grants received
$373k
Net assets
5/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($56k) Expenses 100 ($69k) Net assets 100 ($186k)2018 Revenue 133 ($75k) Expenses 73 ($50k) Net assets 113 ($211k)2019 Revenue 129 ($73k) Expenses 61 ($42k) Net assets 130 ($242k)2020 Revenue 265 ($150k) Expenses 75 ($52k) Net assets 183 ($340k)2021 Revenue 392 ($221k) Expenses 50 ($34k) Net assets 283 ($526k)2022 Revenue 168 ($95k) Expenses 97 ($67k) Net assets 298 ($555k)2023 Revenue 161 ($91k) Expenses 126 ($87k) Net assets 300 ($558k)2024 Revenue 185 ($104k) Expenses 142 ($98k) Net assets 303 ($564k)2025 Revenue 349 ($197k) Expenses 116 ($80k) Net assets 200 ($373k)
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Revenue (349)Expenses (116)Net assets (200)

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
17
$25k
18
$31k
19
$98k
20
$187k
21
$28k
22
$4k
23
$6k
24
$117k
25
56
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $11k → $9k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

30% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY.

32%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 75% · 2019 61% · 2020 45% · 2021 68% · 2022 77% · 2023 53%broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

29% of CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

96% of CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
WI
PA
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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18
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20
21
22
23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

0
board members
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

75%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY?
CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,152 to it, the largest being THE GERHARD & PATRICIA WEILER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($24,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $76,152 in grants to CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY?
THE GERHARD & PATRICIA WEILER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $24,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing