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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by REAL FOODS COLLECTIVE.

Totals

Total revenue
$703,650
Total expenses
$640,075
Contributions and grants received
$154,256
Grants paid
$225
Program service revenue
$549,394
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$92,459
Total liabilities, end of year
$6,000
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$86,459
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$473,440
Management and general expenses
$166,635
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$473,440

Program services were 74.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $0

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $0

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $50,000

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $104,256

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $0

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Produce Distribution

    total $523,931 · related or exempt $523,931 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Farmstand

    total $1,754 · related or exempt $1,754 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Cooking Classes

    total $23,709 · related or exempt $23,709 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $225 · program services $225

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $101,400 · program services $50,700 · management and general $50,700

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $189,436 · program services $94,718 · management and general $94,718

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $26,738 · program services $13,369 · management and general $13,369

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $1,422 · program services $711 · management and general $711

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $7,962 · program services $7,962

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $186 · program services $186

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $7,918 · program services $3,959 · management and general $3,959

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $2,963 · program services $1,482 · management and general $1,481

  • 17 · Travel

    total $2,530 · program services $2,530

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $3,394 · program services $1,697 · management and general $1,697

  • 24a · Other expenses: Food

    total $294,234 · program services $294,234 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Supplies

    total $1,589 · program services $1,589 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses: Storage

    total $78 · program services $78 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $20,316 · end of year $37,750

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $54,709

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    beginning of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    beginning of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    beginning of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $0

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $7,832 · end of year $6,000

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $0

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $0

  • 20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

    beginning of year $0

  • 21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

    beginning of year $0

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $0

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $0

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $0

  • 29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $12,484 · end of year $86,459

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Real Foods Collective (RFC), is a community food collective based in Maywood, IL, build a resilient local food system. RFC is incubated by Proviso Partners for Health (PP4H) and the vision of RFC is a result of PP4H's experiences advancing food access with partners over the past decade. The mission is to create economic opportunity with the power of food, community, and connection.

  • The Heart & Soil Product Produce Box Program -Provides 2 boxes of fresh high quality produce each month to low-income people in the west suburbs of Chicago. Also provides Science based nutrition education including recipes sharing and cooking demos.

    Expenses $463,463 · Grants $154,256 · Revenue $678,187

  • Maywood Summer Market - Real Foods Collective and the Maywood Public Library put on a weekly farmers market to provide fresh produce to Maywood low income residents.

    Expenses $5,241 · Revenue $1,754

  • Every Day Counts - Every Day Counts is an intervention program conducted at Loyola University of Chicago in collaboration with the Medical College of Wisconsin. Real Foods Collective facilitates monthly cooking classes in coordination with Every Day Counts team.

    Expenses $4,736 · Revenue $23,709

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Mary Mora

    President

    Total calculated
    $101,400
    From this org
    $101,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Lena Hatchett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Loretta Brown

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Hartenstein Perez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
17 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.0
Source object
202543219349327244

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