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NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER

NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $324,425 to it, the largest being QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($124,400). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$346k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$324k
Net assets
$225k
11/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Nest Nourish Everyone Sustainably Together does

Mission

To nourish bodies and community by providing delicious, sustainably sourced food to all who enter regardless of their means.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided 16,291 nutrient-dense, sustainably sourced meals to all served on a pay-what-you-can basis. Also served 1,229 free children's meals and provided weekly scratch-made nutrient-dense snacks to children in an afterschool program.

    $326,450 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $326,450.

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 ($183k) Expenses 100 ($17k) Net assets 100 ($166k)2021 Revenue 48 ($87k) Expenses 332 ($56k) Net assets 118 ($196k)2022 Revenue 103 ($188k) Expenses 1278 ($218k) Net assets 101 ($167k)2023 Revenue 160 ($291k) Expenses 1522 ($259k) Net assets 120 ($199k)2024 Revenue 190 ($346k) Expenses 1878 ($320k) Net assets 136 ($225k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (190)Expenses (1878)Net assets (136)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 $167k to $199k (+19%).

$166k
$197k
$167k
$199k
$226k
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

67% of NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$166k
’20
$30k
’21
−$30k
’22
$32k
’23
$26k
’24
7.1
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.

202220232024
Listed898
Joined·+3+0
No longer listed·21
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $21k → $51k.

6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER’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

NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% 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

79% 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 NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER.

38%
largest funder
58%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 49% · 2021 37% · 2022 72% · 2023 73% — 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

57% of NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

53% of NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $151k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL
WI
IA
IN

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

’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $173k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve7.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER?
NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $324,425 to it, the largest being QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($124,400). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $324,425 in grants to NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER?
QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $124,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEST NOURISH EVERYONE SUSTAINABLY TOGETHER 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing