Fox Valley Food For Health

Name

Fox Valley Food For Health

Legal name

Fox Valley Food for Health

Website

https://fvffh.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Nutrition Services

NAICS

Community Food Services (62421)

akta.pro primary industry

Food & Nutrition Assistance Programs (BPAIAKAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Nutrition, Dietary Management & Allergen/Accommodation Services (EDALADAJ)

Keywords

• Medically tailored meals
• Community nutrition services
• Nonprofit meal delivery
• Teen culinary education
• Organic community garden

Headquarters

HQ city

Geneva

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: Tax-deductible charitable donations from individuals supporting the mission. Monthly giving program called 'Healthy Heroes' with levels ranging from $25 to $250 per month.
2. Corporate Sponsorships: Corporate sponsors provide funds for weekly meals, equipment purchases, and platinum partnership levels. Sponsorships range from $200 to $20,000 for event underwriting.
3. Event Fundraising: Annual Harvest Moon Gala and Spring Fling events generate revenue through ticket sales, auction items, raffles, and sponsorships.
4. Cookbook Sales: Sale of 'Our Healing Meals Cookbook' and 'Nourishing Community Cookbook' through the organization's e-store.
5. In-Kind Donations: Accepts donations of kitchen equipment, restaurant/business gift certificates, wine, travel packages, and event auction items.
6. Stock and Securities Donations: Donors can transfer stocks and securities for charitable deduction while avoiding capital gains taxes.
7. Legacy Giving: Bequests and estate planning contributions through wills and beneficiary designations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Fox Valley Food for Health is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that prepares and delivers free, organic, primarily plant-based nutrient-dense meals to individuals and families facing cancer and other serious illnesses for a 12-week period. The organization produces meals in a commercial kitchen with adult and teen volunteers and delivers them to recipients' homes within a 15-mile radius of St. Charles, Illinois, while running a Teen Chef nutrition-education program and an Organic Garden program that supplies fresh produce for meal preparation.

Product overview

Fox Valley Food For Health is a nonprofit organization operating as a single, unified service rather than a platform architecture. The organization offers three interconnected core programs: the Healthy Meals Program (delivering 12 weeks of free, nutrient-dense meals to individuals and families facing serious illness), the Teen Chef Program (providing culinary education and mentorship to teens), and the Organic Garden Program (supplying fresh organic produce for meal preparation). These programs work synergistically—teens prepare meals in the kitchen that are delivered to recipients, while garden-grown produce supplies ingredients. The organization also sells a cookbook featuring recipes developed through the Teen Chef Program. The programs are integrated through volunteer engagement, with teens learning nutrition and cooking skills while contributing to meal delivery for those in need.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Healthy Meals Program A 12-week meal-delivery service providing nutrient-dense, organic, primarily plant-based meals to individuals and families facing cancer and other serious illnesses at no cost. Each week, trained adult volunteers mentor teen volunteers in preparing meals in a commercial kitchen, which are then packaged and delivered to recipients' homes within a 15-mile radius of the Kane County Fairgrounds in St. Charles, Illinois.
• Teen Chef Program A youth education program that empowers local teens to live healthier lives through hands-on culinary training, nutrition education, and community service. Teens work alongside adult kitchen mentors to prepare meals while learning food safety, chef techniques, and nutrition fundamentals; the program supports their community-service hours and college applications, and teens can remain throughout high school and return during or after college.
• Organic Garden Program A sustainable-agriculture initiative that educates patrons on organic gardening techniques and grows fresh produce to supply the meal-preparation kitchen. Located at Mooseheart Child City and School in Batavia, Illinois, the program produced 968 lbs of fresh organic vegetables and herbs across 20+ varieties during the August 2025–June 2026 serving year, helping offset ingredient costs while supporting long-term wellness.
• Our Healing Meals Cookbook A cookbook featuring nourishing, approachable recipes developed by Teen Chef Program participants in collaboration with the Executive Chef. The collection reflects the organization's nutritional philosophy and community values and is sold to support the organization's mission.

Quantifiable outcome

• 22,600 free meals delivered annually
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Mooseheart Child City and SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMooseheart provides dedicated garden space at their Batavia location for Fox Valley Food for Health's Organic Garden Program. From spring through fall, the organization grows fresh organic vegetables and herbs at this site to support the Healthy Meals program. This partnership expands food production capacity and provides fresh, locally grown ingredients while reducing purchasing costs.
• Batavia Chamber of CommerceminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate sponsor and community partner supporting Food for Health's mission and programs.
• United WayminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate sponsor and community partner supporting Food for Health's mission and programs.
• Blue Cross Blue ShieldminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate sponsor supporting Food for Health's mission through healthcare community partnership.
• Guittard Chocolate CompanyminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate sponsor; Brand Director Heather Houston serves on the Board of Directors.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Project Open Hand: San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit providing meals and nutrition services to seniors and individuals coping with chronic or critical illnesses such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, and diabetes. Closely comparable mission, meal-delivery model, and volunteer-driven kitchen operations.
• Ceres Community Project: California-based nonprofit that provides medically tailored meals to people facing cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, with a strong youth volunteer engagement model (teen chefs preparing meals). Particularly close peer given the dual teen-volunteer + medically tailored meals focus.
• Community Servings: Massachusetts-based nonprofit that prepares and home-delivers medically tailored meals to individuals and families living with critical illnesses. Closely comparable in mission, medically tailored home-delivery model, nutrition education focus, and reliance on volunteer kitchen labor.
• Moveable Feast: Maryland-based nonprofit delivering medically tailored meals to individuals living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other critical illnesses. Direct peer in home-delivered, medically tailored meal programs serving low-income and immunocompromised populations.
• God's Love We Deliver: New York City-based nonprofit that cooks and home-delivers medically tailored meals to people living with serious illnesses including cancer, HIV/AIDS, and other chronic conditions. Direct peer in mission, medically tailored meal model, volunteer engagement, and 501(c)(3) funding structure.
• MANNA (Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance): Philadelphia-based nonprofit that provides medically tailored meals, nutrition counseling, and education to individuals battling serious illnesses. Direct peer in the medically tailored meal nonprofit category with similar home-delivery model and community-driven funding.

Emerging players

• Food for Others: Northern Virginia-based nonprofit focused on food distribution and meal provision to families facing food insecurity. Partial overlap with Fox Valley Food for Health's community food assistance mission, though operates a more traditional food bank / pantry model rather than medically tailored meals.
• LA Kitchen: Los Angeles-based nonprofit that engages older adults and formerly incarcerated individuals in preparing meals for others facing serious illness. Comparable in the volunteer-driven kitchen model, nutrition education component, and meal-delivery mission to a medically vulnerable population.

Others

• Hunger Free America: National nonprofit and advocacy organization working to end hunger in the U.S. through research, direct service programs, and policy. Adjacent to Fox Valley Food for Health as a community-based anti-hunger organization, though operating at a national policy level rather than delivering meals directly.

Broad incumbents

• Meals on Wheels America: National umbrella organization supporting a network of 5,000+ community-based programs that deliver meals to seniors and others in need. Significantly larger and broader in scope than Fox Valley Food for Health, but highly comparable in the home-delivered meals category and target demographic (seniors).

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/foxvalleyfoodforhealth
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fox-valley-food-for-health

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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