Program 1 · 6.6% of program spending · $9.7M in grants $14.7M
The greater chicago food depository provides programs to alleviate hunger among priority populations including children, students, older adults and veterans. The organization also works to address the root causes of hunger by creating pathways to thriving wage jobs and local economic opportunity. Other programs include after-school and summer meals for children, food distributions for older adults, food distributions at schools, and federal benefits outreach.
Program 2 · 2% of program spending · $3.9M in grants $4.4M
Mobile responses reach populations that often don't have access to traditional emergency assistance programs. The food depository's produce mobile distributes fresh fruit and vegetables in high-need communities, while the mobile pantry provides produce, protein and shelf-stable groceries to hungry individuals on evenings and weekends. The fresh truck offers produce to food insecure patients of health clinics throughout cook county.
Form 990 (FY ending Jun 2025), Part III