Feeding Illinois
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371415188
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Geneva, IL, United States
- Phone
- (630) 768-8068
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,997,198
- Expenses
- $3,026,248
- Assets
- $2,945,883
- Liabilities
- $1,893,465
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIE YURKO (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHEN ERICSON (EXECUTIVE DI): $106,074 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Delivering food and other services to hungry people across Illinois through a network of member agencies and specialized feeding programs. Together, they provide food and other services to every county in Illinois through a vast network of member agencies and specialized feeding programs. The number of residents who are hungry in Illinois is staggering and saddening - yet solvable. But only together; with collective support across public and private sectors. As the state association for food banks serving Illinois we work with our members to strengthen and support their efforts to eliminate hunger.
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide education and outreach raising awareness about hunger network of private, public, philanthropic, and nonprofit partners dedicated to working together to end hunger. To execute grant contracts - including oversight of snap outreach activities among contracted food banks, in serving food- insecure families, friends, colleagues, and neighbors within our statewide food bank network. To provide leadership and build collaborative support in seeking to develop an agricultural surplus capture program in conjunction with the emergency food system working group of the Illinois commission to end hunger.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 86% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.7%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 97.7%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $4,070.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.64; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 98.7% of revenue deployed · 97.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $106K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.