Illinois · Nonprofit
Community Meal
Community Meal (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,373 to it, the largest being BARRINGTON AREA COMM FOUNDATION INC ($168,650). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $148k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $209k
- Net assets
- $204k
What Community Meal does
Mission
Serve no-cost meals in the Barrington areas - served 16,382 meals in 2025
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Serve no-cost meals in the Barrington areas - served 16,832 individual meals in 2025
$24,284 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,284.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $18k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Community Meal’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
Community Meal leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 57% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.
“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 Community Meal's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $723 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Community Meal runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Community Meal
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
74%
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 Community Meal: 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 Community Meal?
- Community Meal (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,373 to it, the largest being BARRINGTON AREA COMM FOUNDATION INC ($168,650). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Meal have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $209,373 in grants to Community Meal, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Meal?
- BARRINGTON AREA COMM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $168,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Meal 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 3 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