FOOD WORKS

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

K30

Classification

1200

Street

PO BOX 3855

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• 1. Food Works Winter Market (WFM)- A winter season market in the town of Carbondale that provides a crucial income stream to small farmers through the winter months. WFM is the only winter farmers market in the region to accept SNAP & Link Match. This market attracts farmers and vendors from counties across southern Illinois providing the community with access to fresh, locally grown food. The Mobile Market Truck made its debut in 2024 attending 7 weekly market locations across Southern Illinois; 29 local producers supplied produce for the truck; 1000+ customers served; the most popular item was tomatoes, selling 700 pounds. Pop up events included Farmers Market Week, Senator Fowler Cairo Block party, and numerous school field trips. 2023-24 season stats are 6000 guests, 40+ vendors, $4000 in Link match 600 plants given away, 20,000 seeds swapped. In 2024 the Carbondale Community Farmers Market (ccfm) was rebranded to Food Works Winter Market. An additional program under the Winter Market was the 2024 RX Pilot Program where food is treated as "medicine." Twenty-seven participants were given a weekly stipend to shop on Little Egypt Area Farmers (LEAF) for the duration of the pilot project. Results were $13,000 worth of food was "prescribed", a 40% increase in the amount of fresh fruits and veggies consumed weekly from start to end, plus free home delivery to remove access barriers.

  Expenses $19,921 · Revenue $31,425

• 2.SNAP & Link Match in Farmers Markets- This program expands equitable access to healthy, nutrient dense foods by supporting farmers markets to be able to accept SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and Link Match, a double coupon program for free fruits and vegetables. Food Works provides administrative set up and oversight of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) at local farmers markets and double value assistance for low income community members who buy from farmers markets. In 2024 Food Works provided support services for farmers markets to be able to accept SNAP, including healthy eating incentives. Operated the program at 8 farmers markets, serving 12,534 customers and 1,273 vendors.

  Expenses $48,232 · Grants $10,367 · Revenue $96,127

• 3. Southern Illinois Farming Alliance (SIFA)- Food Works sponsors this farmer-driven network whose focus is to encourage area farmers to learn from each other. The Alliance provides peer-to-peer education and networking opportunities by organizing Field Days and a Regional Conference for delving more deeply into timely topics. In 2024 SIFA held 5 field days and workshop events that attracted 94 participants. Eleven farms participated in the annual Farm Crawl selling 67 passes, and accepted a donation of $3,800 from the local Neighborhood Co-op Grocery.

  Expenses $26,531 · Grants $6,883 · Revenue $37,207

• Southern Illinois Farm Beginnings (SIFB)- Education program in entrepreneurial, regenerative small farm business that takes a holistic approach to farming and helps beginning farmers plan for resilient farms that can be nimble with the challenges of new business. Farm Beginnings(R), is an intensive training program for beginning and transitional farmers, which aims to create financially solvent and flourishing local farms through education and mentorship. Nine farms completed the program in 2024. They attended 27 sessions, and attended 8 field visits. Each received full scholarships to attend the program, plus stipends for evaluations, farm hosting, mentoring, speakers, and travel expenses.

  Expenses $53,844 · Grants $28,275 · Revenue $73,980

• Mobile Farmers Market (MFM)- This program improves healthy food access in rural towns and counties in southern Illinois, especially for low income households. The MFM accepts SNAP and Link Match, and in 2024 has begun a Healthy Food Prescription Rx program in conjunction with local healthcare providers and LEAF. Twenty-seven participants were given a weekly stipend to hop on LEAF the for the duration of the pilot program. The MFM benefits local producers by providing access to additional markets while allowing them to remain focused on production on the farm. Food Works Mobile Farmers Market is a farmers market on wheels that connects food insecure communities with fresh, healthy foods produced by local farmers. In total $13,000 worth of food moved through the RX program, increasing the amount of fresh fruits and veggies consumed weekly by 40%. The Mobile Food Van provided free home delivery so transportation was not a barrier to the program.

  Expenses $162,014 · Grants $900 · Revenue $257,336

• Food Works with a staff of 10 people, including an Executive Director, and a six person board see that five major programs are funded and operating as efficiently as possible and within the mission of the organization.

  Expenses $136,202 · Revenue $239,650

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $735,725

  Expenses

  $533,598

  Contributions

  $694,326

  Grants paid

  $89,655

• 2023

  Revenue

  $633,141

  Expenses

  $397,988

  Contributions

  $633,141

  Grants paid

  $64,934

• 2022

  Revenue

  $423,434

  Expenses

  $292,802

  Contributions

  $423,434

  Grants paid

  $42,873

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $49,893

  Expenses

  $71,624

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,030

• 2020 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $29,812

  Expenses

  $45,936

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,403

• 2019 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $49,978

  Expenses

  $45,739

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,527

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2011

Tax period

1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011

Principal officer

Dayna Conner

Mailing address

PO Box 3855Carbondale IL 62902

Website

eatsouthernillinois.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

• LEAF

  $43,230

  2024 · Food Works sub contracts with LEAF which supports local farmers who supply fresh produce for local farmers' markets and mobile food market program in Southern IL. They were part of the RX Food pilot project.

• LEAF

  $34,960

  2023 · This sub grant is in support of local farmers who supply fresh produce for local farmers' markets and the mobile food market program in Southern Illinois

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• REINVESTMENT FUND INC

  $110,775

  2024 · FUNDING TO EXPAND OR PRESERVE THE AVAILABILITY OF STAPLE AND PERISHABLE FOODS IN UNDERSERVED AREAS WITH LOW AND MODERATE INCOME POPULATIONS BY MAINTAINING OR INCREASING THE NUMBER OF RETAIL OUTLETS THAT OFFER AN ASSORTMENT OF PERISHABLE AND STAPLE FOODS IN THOSE AREAS

• EXPERIMENTAL STATION

  $61,000

  2023 · SUPPORT FOR LOCAL FARMER'S MARKET

• REINVESTMENT FUND INC

  $45,000

  2023 · FUNDING TO EXPAND OR PRESERVE THE AVAILABILITY OF STAPLE AND PERISHABLE FOODS IN UNDERSERVED AREAS WITH LOW AND MODERATE INCOME POPULATIONS BY MAINTAINING OR INCREASING THE NUMBER OF RETAIL OUTLETS THAT OFFER AN ASSORTMENT OF PERISHABLE AND STAPLE FOODS IN THOSE AREAS

• FARM AID INC

  $10,000

  2022 · HELPING FARMERS THRIVE

• FARM AID INC

  $9,000

  2023 · HELPING FARMERS THRIVE

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