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CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC

CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,111,519 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($519,687). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$361k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$818k
13/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 75%
01What it does

What Crisis Food Center Inc does

Mission

Provide needy with food and clothing

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Crisis Food Center served about 25,000 individuals in 2024. We provided food assistance consisting of a 7 day supply of groceries based on the number of people in the home.

    $377,204 spent$346,015 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $377,204.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($504k) Expenses 100 ($246k) Net assets 100 ($842k)2021 Revenue 53 ($265k) Expenses 84 ($207k) Net assets 107 ($903k)2022 Revenue 52 ($261k) Expenses 120 ($295k) Net assets 103 ($869k)2023 Revenue 63 ($319k) Expenses 158 ($390k) Net assets 94 ($792k)2024 Revenue 72 ($361k) Expenses 166 ($408k) Net assets 97 ($818k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (72)Expenses (166)Net assets (97)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $869k to $803k (−8%).

$846k
$907k
$869k
$803k
$818k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$257k
’20
$59k
’21
−$34k
’22
−$71k
’23
−$47k
’24
8.8
months of
reserve

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.

20202021202220232024
Listed79998
Joined·+2+0+0+0
No longer listed·0001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $81k → $240k.

4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CRISIS FOOD CENTER 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

CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

57% 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 CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC.

47%
largest funder
65%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 77% · 2019 59% · 2020 63% · 2021 47% · 2022 40% · 2023 58% — 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.

How long its funders stay

44% of CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.

IL
NV
NJ
MO
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CRISIS FOOD CENTER 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CRISIS FOOD CENTER 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 CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC?
CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,111,519 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($519,687). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,111,519 in grants to CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $519,687 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CRISIS FOOD CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 16 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