Illinois · Nonprofit
STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC
STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,069,123 to it, the largest being THE ROTH & LETCH FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,863,320). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $124k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Stop Foodborne Illness Inc does
Mission
As the voice of people affected by foodborne illness, we collaborate with partners in academia, the food industry, and government to prevent foodborne illness. We advocate for effective food safety policy and facilitate culture change to increase food safety.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Support and Resources for ConsumersSTOP has become the leading resource for consumers who experience foodborne illness or are seeking more information about food safety. On its website, STOP offers consumers an e-recall option that customizes recall notices or other food safety alerts geographically and by interest, so that consumers receive just the alerts that are pertinent to them for greater impact. The number of consumers who have signed up for these e-alerts has grown exponentially over the last few years as consumers recognize the importance of being better-informed about food safety issues. STOP also provides a forum for those who have suffered from or lost a loved one to foodborne illness to tell their stories and raise awareness among the public about the short- and long-term impact foodborne illnesses can have and how they might be prevented. STOP helps these constituent advocates tell their stories to industry and government leaders who have within their power the ability to make real and lasting changes to food safety culture in the United States. Advocacy and Food Safety Policy One significant area of work for STOP is that of advocacy for better food safety…
$851,616 spent94% of program spendingThe Alliance to Stop Foodborne IllnessThe Alliance to Stop Foodborne Illness focuses on promoting positive, mature food safety cultures across industry.The Alliance to Stop Foodborne Illness is a program of Stop Foodborne Illness (STOP), that brings together STOP constituents, leading food companies, and other like- minded organizations deeply committed to the goal of preventing foodborne disease. Developed in 2018, the Alliance was born out of a shared understanding of the crucial role food safety culture plays in ensuring that food is safe, and consumers are protected.
$33,562 spent4% of program spendingThe Dave Theno Food Safety Fellowship was created after the food safety revolutionary's untimely death in 2017. Mr. Theno's response to the unprecedented 1993 deadly E. coli O157:H7 outbreak transformed food practices, standards, management, and leadership in the beef industry.The Fellowship's focus is to fuel the passion for food safety in young, accomplished scientists and to develop and encourage careers in food safety. Stop Foodborne Illness, along with Michigan State University, has the honor of supporting the Dave Theno Food Safety Fellowship.
$18,870 spent2% of program spendingRecall Modernization Research ProjectThe goal of the project is to create templates for communicating essential information to consumers about recalls, market withdrawals, and public health alerts that work in the current communications environment.Rutgers University and STOP will work together to create templates written in plain language that are harmonized across the FDA and USDA, meeting any specific agency requirements, which can be tailored to incidents involving pathogens, allergens, chemical contamination, or foreign objects. AFDO contract directly with Stop Foodborne Illness (STOP), which would then subcontract directly with Drs. William Hallman and Katherine Oganyanova, who would then subcontract with a research assistant to help code social media data. STOP has agreed to a 20% indirect cost structure (vs. the Rutgers rate of 57%) and has agreed to help us identify key informants through the Alliance and to help coordinate interviews/surveys with them.Carrying out this research will positively position STOP, its Recall Modernization Committee, and the researchers involved to seek funding from FDA, USDA, and industry partners to carry out planned quantitative testing of…
Research -One health project with AUBURN UNIVERSITY
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $904,048.
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.
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 $930k to $2.0M (+113%).
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: 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $61k → $100k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS 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
STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 96% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 68% · 2023 100% — 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
50% of STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Heersink Family Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC?
- STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,069,123 to it, the largest being THE ROTH & LETCH FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,863,320). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,069,123 in grants to STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC?
- THE ROTH & LETCH FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,863,320 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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