Illinois · Nonprofit
REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective
REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,000 to it, the largest being WESTLAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $704k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $156k
- Net assets
- $86k
What REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective does
Mission
Real Foods Collective (RFC), is a community food collective based in Maywood, IL, build a resilient local food system. RFC is incubated by Proviso Partners for Health (PP4H) and the vision of RFC is a result of PP4H's experiences advancing food access with partners over the past decade. The mission is to create economic opportunity with the power of food, community, and connection.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Heart & Soil Product Produce Box Program -Provides 2 boxes of fresh high quality produce each month to low-income people in the west suburbs of Chicago. Also provides Science based nutrition education including recipes sharing and cooking demos.
$463,463 spentof which $154,256 as grants$678,187 earned by the program98% of program spendingMaywood Summer Market - Real Foods Collective and the Maywood Public Library put on a weekly farmers market to provide fresh produce to Maywood low income residents.
$5,241 spent$1,754 earned by the program1% of program spendingEvery Day Counts - Every Day Counts is an intervention program conducted at Loyola University of Chicago in collaboration with the Medical College of Wisconsin. Real Foods Collective facilitates monthly cooking classes in coordination with Every Day Counts team.
$4,736 spent$23,709 earned by the program1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $473,440.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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: 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective’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
REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
100% of REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective: 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 REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective?
- REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,000 to it, the largest being WESTLAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $156,000 in grants to REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective.
- Who is the largest funder of REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective?
- WESTLAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REAL FOODS COLLECTIVEReal Foods Collective 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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