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Illinois Local Food Infrastructure Grant
About LFIG
The Local Food Infrastructure Grant Act created the Local Food Infrastructure Grant Program for the development of local food processing, aggregation and distribution. Starting in Illinois Fiscal Year 2025, the Illinois Department of Agriculture will administer the grant.
The LFIG is intended to assist Illinois applicants with purchasing, leasing to own, renting, building, or installation of infrastructure that will increase market access of Illinois agricultural products to Illinois communities. Funding can support value-added processing, livestock processing, milling, dairy, refrigerated vehicles, food hubs, community kitchens and other critical pieces of the local food supply chain.
The Illinois Department of Agriculture will have 3.6 million of available funds for fiscal year 2026. Eligible applicants will need to be in Illinois and store, process, package, aggregate or distribute value added products. This includes, but may not be limited to, IL farms, cooperatives, processing facilities, food businesses, food hubs with 50 employees or less. Nonprofits and local governments are also eligible.
Grant awards will be available for collaborative and individual projects. For a collaborative project, an applicant will be able to apply for a grant of up to $250,000 and for an individual project $75,000 may be awarded. There will be a required match unless the applicant can prove high need condition.
Contact
LFIG Grant Administrator
Illinois Department of Agriculture
801 E. Sangamon Ave.
Springfield, IL 62702
email: agr.lfig@illinois.gov
2026 Awardees
Recipient Organization |
Amount Awarded |
Abundant Pastures |
$38,182.27 |
Academy for Global Citizenship Charter School |
$61,600.00 |
Ada S. McKinley Community Services, Inc. |
$75,000.00 |
AL RAAWI LLC |
$75,000.00 |
Alto Vineyards, Ltd |
$75,000.00 |
Angelic Organics Learning Center dba Farmers Rising |
$71,661.17 |
Arrow Farm Meats LLC |
$75,000.00 |
Beyond Hunger |
$75,000.00 |
Broadview Farm and Gardens LLC |
$45,000.00 |
Carthage Quality Meats, LLC |
$56,250.00 |
Chicago Chesed Fund |
$127,500.00 |
Cribelar Custom Processing LLC |
$75,000.00 |
Curtis Orchard LTD |
$75,000.00 |
Danndee Flowers |
$72,600.00 |
Dittmar Farms LLC |
$21,200.00 |
Dutch Valley Meats Inc |
$75,000.00 |
Ebro Foods Inc. |
$75,000.00 |
Elawa Farm Foundation |
$14,617.50 |
Evanston Grows |
$75,000.00 |
Feeding Illinois / Eastern Illinois Foodbank |
$75,000.00 |
Flamm Orchards Inc. |
$44,355.59 |
Food for Greater Elgin, Inc. |
$73,041.00 |
Four Star Mushrooms LLC |
$75,000.00 |
Freeport School District #145 |
$65,650.00 |
Fritz Meat and Processing |
$57,721.50 |
GGGY1 DBA Citadelle Green Mountain |
$7,800.00 |
Gravity Farms, LLC |
$8,710.28 |
Grissom Family Orchard and Farm Market |
$43,369.00 |
Heartland Human Care Services |
$59,558.00 |
Hilltop Butcher Shoppe LLC |
$72,000.00 |
Homewood-Flossmoor High School District #233 |
$75,000.00 |
Inspiration Corporation |
$75,000.00 |
Just Roots |
$49,500.00 |
Kakadoodle, LLC |
$57,093.00 |
La Criolla, Inc. |
$75,000.00 |
Liberty Apple Orchard, Inc. |
$1,424.21 |
Liberty Prairie |
$75,000.00 |
Loaves & Fishes Community Pantry |
$75,000.00 |
Lucy Jill Rendleman dba All Seasons Farm |
$64,757.25 |
Mahoney Farms II |
$75,000.00 |
Main Street Pastures |
$74,998.51 |
NeighborSpace |
$250,000.00 |
Palatine Township |
$75,000.00 |
Panther Ridge Farms, LLC |
$42,141.36 |
Paris Frozen Foods Inc. |
$75,000.00 |
Phoenix Bean LLC |
$75,000.00 |
Prairies Edge Garden LLC |
$1,959.00 |
Prairiesburg Fields, Inc. |
$75,000.00 |
Prairiesburg Fields, Inc. |
$62,543.40 |
Rendleman Orchards Inc. |
$60,286.02 |
Riverside Foods |
$52,446.00 |
Roots & Vine Food Hub |
$9,057.45 |
Rustic Road Farm, LLC |
$75,000.00 |
Saradough |
$10,642.00 |
symphony foods LLC |
$75,000.00 |
The FARMS of Illinois LLC |
$41,766.55 |
The Supah Food Co LLC |
$72,000.00 |
The Talking Farm |
$70,190.00 |
The Witty Farmer, LLC |
$20,000.00 |
The Witty Farmer, LLC |
$38,781.99 |
The Witty Farmer, LLC |
$25,000.00 |
Three Rivers Community Farm |
$11,900.97 |
Triple M Farm Mariah's Mums & More LLC |
$26,465.00 |
Triple S Farms Families LLC |
$26,000.00 |
Vander Burgh Farms, LLC |
$75,000.00 |
Vincent Todd Jokisch |
$32,468.00 |
Zehr Farms LLC |
$65,860.00 |