Illinois · Nonprofit
Chicago Food Rescue Inc
Chicago Food Rescue Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $386,493 to it, the largest being Andrew Family Foundation ($217,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $179k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $386k
- Net assets
- $157k
What Chicago Food Rescue Inc does
Mission
Chicago Food Rescue is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to bridge the gap between food waste and food insecurity in Chicago and the surrounding areas. We aim to make healthy food accessible to anyone in need free of charge wherever they are. Volunteers will deliver food using the Chicago Food Rescue app developed by Food Rescue Hero. This technology seamlessly manages the process of transporting fresh food that would otherwise be wasted from food donors directly to recipients using volunteers for transportation. We believe that no one should go hungry when there is an abundance of food available.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Recovered and redistributed 250,143 lbs of food equivalent to roughly 208,000 meals and completed 1040 rescues. Picked up food donations from 75 food donors and delivered to 79 community partner recipients
$143,642 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $143,642.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $198k to $161k (−19%).
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.
100% of Chicago Food Rescue Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jake Tepperman
Executive Director
Board chair
Ethan Senser
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Chicago Food Rescue Inc’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
Chicago Food Rescue Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
44% 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 Chicago Food Rescue Inc.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Chicago Food Rescue Inc's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
Chicago Food Rescue Inc receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $386k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Chicago Food Rescue Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Chicago Food Rescue Inc: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Chicago Food Rescue Inc?
- Chicago Food Rescue Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $386,493 to it, the largest being Andrew Family Foundation ($217,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chicago Food Rescue Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $386,493 in grants to Chicago Food Rescue Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chicago Food Rescue Inc?
- Andrew Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $217,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chicago Food Rescue Inc 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 6 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing