Illinois · Nonprofit
FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC
FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC (Illinois) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,399,874 to it, the largest being HOFFER FOUNDATION ($443,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.7M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Food for Greater Elgin Inc does
Mission
To provide food security and access to community resources that stabilize lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Food for greater elgin is a large client choice food pantry serving the greater elgin area. Client choice is an innovative, dignified approach for families to choose their own food items versus pre-bagged groceries. We provide food assistance and access to additional services to thousands of members of our community, half of whom are children. We maximize all donated support - funds, food, and time - with integrity, efficiency and positive stewardship.
$7,996,911 spent$6,163 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,996,911.
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.
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 $809k to $2.6M (+220%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 3% · 2022 1% · 2023 2% · 2024 4% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Andres Diez
Executive director
Board chair
Edward Kowalski
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $39k → $591k.
10 of 43 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 FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
28% 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 FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 58% · 2019 44% · 2020 62% · 2021 27% · 2022 34% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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
48% of FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
52% of FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $245k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN 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.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN 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 FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC?
- FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC (Illinois) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,399,874 to it, the largest being HOFFER FOUNDATION ($443,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $2,399,874 in grants to FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC?
- HOFFER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $443,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 43 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