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FISH FOOD PANTRY

FISH FOOD PANTRY (Illinois) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,029 to it, the largest being EFS FOUNDATION ($283,392). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.3M
Revenue FY2024
18
Funders on record
$438k
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
14/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%

Against its field

FISH FOOD PANTRY is better cushioned than half of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve5.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($355k)2018 Revenue 98 ($1.4M) Expenses 102 ($1.4M) Net assets 109 ($386k)2019 Revenue 101 ($1.4M) Expenses 107 ($1.4M) Net assets 130 ($461k)2020 Revenue 129 ($1.8M) Expenses 108 ($1.5M) Net assets 242 ($859k)2021 Revenue 99 ($1.4M) Expenses 87 ($1.2M) Net assets 309 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 121 ($1.7M) Expenses 125 ($1.7M) Net assets 323 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 125 ($1.8M) Expenses 129 ($1.7M) Net assets 339 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 163 ($2.3M) Expenses 168 ($2.3M) Net assets 360 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (163)Expenses (168)Net assets (360)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of FISH FOOD PANTRY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,189 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$88k
17
$31k
18
$13k
19
$398k
20
$237k
21
$53k
22
$54k
23
$74k
24
5.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $9k → $53k.

5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)15% 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 FISH 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

FISH FOOD PANTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

65%
largest funder
78%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 22% · 2022 16% · 2023 14%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

40% of FISH FOOD PANTRY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

90% of FISH FOOD PANTRY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
NY
OR
NJ
CA
NM

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

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 18 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 FISH 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

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FISH 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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Questions and answers

Who funds FISH FOOD PANTRY?
FISH FOOD PANTRY (Illinois) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,029 to it, the largest being EFS FOUNDATION ($283,392). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FISH FOOD PANTRY have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $438,029 in grants to FISH FOOD PANTRY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FISH FOOD PANTRY?
EFS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $283,392 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FISH 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18funders 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