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NWI FOOD COUNCIL INC

NWI FOOD COUNCIL INC (Indiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $452,352 to it, the largest being FOREFRONT ($225,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$452k
Net assets
$556k
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Nwi Food Council Inc does

Mission

The nwi food council cultivates a just, thriving and regenerative food system for all in nw indiana.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Support regional farm viability with technical assistance, market development, a nonprofit food hub, and farmer network development.

    $1,869,421 spentof which $87,650 as grants$564,325 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Support regional food access efforts with food distributions for food insecure families, farmers market technical assistance and benefits programs, and monthly food subscriptions.

  3. Support regional farm to school efforts, with capacity building for k-12, early childhood education, and postsecondary efforts including school gardens, local food procurement, ag and nutrition education, and farm labor training opportunities

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,869,421.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($309k) Expenses 100 ($317k) Net assets 100 ($14k)2023 Revenue 477 ($1.5M) Expenses 401 ($1.3M) Net assets 1525 ($214k)2024 Revenue 796 ($2.5M) Expenses 639 ($2.0M) Net assets 4687 ($657k)2025 Revenue 588 ($1.8M) Expenses 603 ($1.9M) Net assets 3964 ($556k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (588)Expenses (603)Net assets (3964)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 2023 to 2024, from $325k to $673k (+107%).

$14k
$325k
$673k
$601k
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 68% · 2023 88% · 2024 83% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

69% of NWI FOOD COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,200 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’22
$200k
’23
$434k
’24
−$98k
’25
1.7
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.

2022202320242025
Listed21201917
Joined·+10+1+0
No longer listed·1122
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $11 → $80k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 NWI FOOD COUNCIL INC’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

NWI FOOD COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

73% 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 NWI FOOD COUNCIL INC.

50%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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.

Where its funders are

NWI FOOD COUNCIL INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 6 states in all.

IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
DC

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

’21
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

NWI FOOD COUNCIL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)80% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding NWI FOOD COUNCIL INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $998k on record.

Federal$998k
grants $998kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$998k

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 NWI FOOD COUNCIL 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 Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & 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

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited 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

IN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NWI FOOD COUNCIL 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 NWI FOOD COUNCIL INC?
NWI FOOD COUNCIL INC (Indiana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $452,352 to it, the largest being FOREFRONT ($225,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NWI FOOD COUNCIL INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $452,352 in grants to NWI FOOD COUNCIL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NWI FOOD COUNCIL INC?
FOREFRONT is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NWI FOOD COUNCIL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 9 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