Illinois · Nonprofit
Feeding America
Feeding America (Illinois) receives grants from 2801 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,046,868 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($97,055,960). 1441 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0B
- Funders on record
- 2,801
- Grants received
- $729M
- Net assets
- $520M
What Feeding America does
Mission
Our mission is to advance change in America by ensuring equitable access to nutritious food for all in partnership with partner food banks, policymakers, supporters, and the communities we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food Procurement - See Schedule O
$4,737,956,899 spentof which $4,642,472,671 as grants$68,932,238 earned by the program96% of program spendingMember Services - See Schedule O
$99,330,931 spentof which $82,252,930 as grants$5,505,851 earned by the program2% of program spendingPublic Awareness and Education - See Schedule O
$12,801,885 spentof which $1,240,000 as grants0% of program spendingOur Research and Evaluation Team spearheads critical research initiatives to better understand food insecurity and to continually improve our strategies to end it. We analyze the dynamics at play among the Nation's food insecure individuals and families, the patterns surrounding their use of our services, and endeavor to utilize this data to ultimately create better local feeding programs. Additionally, we investigate our own Organizational operations as a network, identifying opportunities for continual growth and refinement.During fiscal year 2025, we released the fourteenth consecutive edition of Map the Meal Gap, our signature study on overall and child food insecurity in every county and congressional district in the United States. Not only does this study allow our partners, policy makers, donors and the public to understand the picture of food insecurity in their communities, it provides our food banks with data that enables them to target their services to people most in need. Feeding America also released county-level food insecurity estimates for Black and Latino households, providing new insights into racial inequities at the local level. Feeding America produced The…
$73,502,703 spentof which $45,908,053 as grants$8,352,056 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,923,592,418.
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. 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 2019 to 2020, from $157M to $433M (+176%).
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.
97% of Feeding America’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot
CEO
Board chair
Shawn O'Grady
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 250 funders to 890 funders, grant income rose $18M → $77M.
185 of 2801 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $541k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Feeding America); $13k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Amin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Feeding America raised.
From the IRS filings of Feeding America’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 2801 funders by total. 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
Feeding America has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 13 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 13 funders to its left
53% 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 Feeding America.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 27% · 2019 17% · 2020 12% · 2021 27% · 2022 12% · 2023 16% — 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
41% of Feeding America's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.
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
Feeding America draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 49 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $279M arriving through sponsors registered in 37 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
Feeding America is better cushioned than half of the 31 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 31 food & nutrition nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Feeding America receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $470 on record.
- FEES-GENERAL-FOR SERVICE $375
- COMMUNICATIONS - TELEPHONE - GENERAL $95
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Feeding America
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.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Feeding America Grantor Trust · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Feeding America: 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 Feeding America?
- Feeding America (Illinois) receives grants from 2801 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,046,868 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($97,055,960). 1441 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Feeding America have?
- IRS filings report 2801 organizations giving $729,046,868 in grants to Feeding America, 1441 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Feeding America?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $97,055,960 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Feeding America 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 2801 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