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ILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE

ILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,316,264 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,140,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.8M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$5.3M
Net assets
$549k
17/24 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Illinois Stewardship Alliance does

Mission

The purpose of the Illinois Stewardship Alliance is to promote the ecologically sustainable, economically viable, socially just, local food systems through policy development, advocacy, and education.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Illinois Stewardship Alliance provides a sustainable agriculture program through research and education on agricultural policies and procedures.

    $2,618,375 spentof which $1,800,000 as grants$35,520 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,618,375.

02The 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 ($457k) Expenses 100 ($462k) Net assets 100 ($95k)2018 Revenue 109 ($498k) Expenses 92 ($425k) Net assets 177 ($168k)2019 Revenue 116 ($529k) Expenses 107 ($496k) Net assets 213 ($203k)2020 Revenue 221 ($1.0M) Expenses 175 ($810k) Net assets 425 ($405k)2021 Revenue 181 ($829k) Expenses 114 ($528k) Net assets 744 ($709k)2022 Revenue 145 ($661k) Expenses 184 ($852k) Net assets 463 ($441k)2023 Revenue 178 ($813k) Expenses 146 ($674k) Net assets 612 ($583k)2024 Revenue 621 ($2.8M) Expenses 622 ($2.9M) Net assets 577 ($549k)
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Revenue (621)Expenses (622)Net assets (577)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 2020 to 2021, from $623k to $1.0M (+66%).

$239k
$326k
$411k
$623k
$1.0M
$979k
$1.2M
$1.3M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 7% · 2020 5% · 2021 1% · 2023 9% · 2024 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of ILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,195 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
$73k
’18
$33k
’19
$200k
’20
$301k
’21
−$190k
’22
$138k
’23
−$35k
’24
5.4
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.

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Listed121315149171413
Joined·+6+2+2+0+10+1+0
No longer listed·5035241
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $18k → $281k.

6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 ILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE’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

ILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

60% 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 ILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE.

21%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 47% · 2019 43% · 2020 33% · 2021 41% · 2022 27% · 2023 27% — 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

41% of ILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

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

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 ILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
VA
AR
FL

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

ILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve5.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

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

Organizations like ILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 7%Fundraising 2%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

72%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE?
ILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,316,264 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,140,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $5,316,264 in grants to ILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE 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 24 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing