Illinois · Nonprofit
Slow Food Chicago
Slow Food Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,250 to it, the largest being Meg and Tim Callahan Family Foundation ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Slow Food Chicago runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,208 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,208 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Forefrontlocalportfolio match
- Zell Family Foundationshared funders
- Harper Court Arts Council Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100 → $5k.
From the IRS filings of Slow Food Chicago’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
Slow Food Chicago leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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
98% of Slow Food Chicago's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 177 organizations that share them.
- Forefrontlocalportfolio matchIL · funds 243 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Zell Family Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 21 organizations that share your funders
- Harper Court Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Experimental Stationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Well Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farmers Market Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Faith in Placeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nourish Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oregon Farmers Markets Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whole Foods Market Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- UNFI Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Services Unlimited Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Slow Food Chicago
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Slow Food Chicago: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Slow Food Chicago?
- Slow Food Chicago (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,250 to it, the largest being Meg and Tim Callahan Family Foundation ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Slow Food Chicago have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $5,250 in grants to Slow Food Chicago.
- Who is the largest funder of Slow Food Chicago?
- Meg and Tim Callahan Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Slow Food Chicago 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 FY2019 (financials across 2019–2019), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing