Funding search · nutrition and food insecurity · Illinois
Who funds nutrition and food insecurity work in Illinois
15 funders have a record of paying for nutrition and food insecurity work by Illinois recipients: 55 grants totaling $37.3M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are The Chicago Community Trust ($35.4M), Shear Family Foundation ($350,000) and Northwestern Memorial Healthcare Group ($165,000).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Illinois recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $35.4M · through 2022Largest: $358,083 to Nourishing Hope — general operating support, support for nourishing hope, to provide food for food-insecure persons, support for migrant needs, support for feed the future, in support of general ope…
Largest: $175,000 to GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — food insecurity
Northwestern Memorial Healthcare GroupChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $165,000 · through 2023Largest: $50,000 to NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES — mitigate food insecurity
Largest: $50,000 to GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — support to reduce food insecurity
Largest: $10,000 to DEPAUL USA — healthy food access paired with nutrition education in philadelphia
Largest: $15,000 to PILOT LIGHT — advance childhood nutrition education
Largest: $65,000 to NOURISHING HOPE — free, clinical mental health counseling to individuals and couples in chicago. this program is essential to our holistic approach to addressing food insecurity.
Largest: $25,000 to FEEDING AMERICA — support fight to end food insecurities
Largest: $20,000 to DION'S CHICAGO DREAM — eliminate food insecurity
Silver Cross Healthy Community CommissionNew Lenox, ILCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $38,992 · through 2023Largest: $13,872 to Warren Sharpe Center — program addressing poverty and food insecurity
Telligen Community InitiativeWest Des Moines, IA
2 matching grants · $125,000 · through 2025Largest: $75,000 to OPTIONS FOR YOUTH — the subsequent pregnancy program (spp) is a unique and effective home visiting program that empowers teenage mothers to delay a second pregnancy, graduate from high school, and bui…
Edward-Elmhurst HealthcareArlington Heights, ILCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $325,500 · through 2023Largest: $162,750 to Loaves and Fishes — support loaves & fishes healthy food access expansion. encourage community participation in health and wellness activities.
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