Crust Fund Pizza: The Running Totals
Photo: Daniel Nguyen
Since August 2020, Crust Fund Pizza has been slinging alley pizzas for the benefit of the people who make Chicago a better place to live. We’ve sold a lot of pies and expanded into one extremely specific church-style cookbook.
TOTAL - $82,810.04
Crust Fund Pizza Drops
(Charitable orgs linked in their initial month of support)
2024
January (Nourishing Hope) - $885
February (The Friendship Center), at Half Acre Beer Co. - $2,860.58
March (Nourishing Hope), private drop - $200
April (Nourishing Hope) - $240
May (Dignity Diner) - $845
June (Chicago Reader) - $405
July (Humanity Relief) - $710
August (MDA) - $1,215
September (Nourishing Hope) - $1,347
2023
January (Mobile Makers) - $1,268.34
February (St. Margaret’s House) - $735
March (My Block, My Hood, My City | The Friendship Center) - $8,300
April (Dignity Diner) - $930.48
May (BUILD Chicago) - $933
June (Chicago House) - $805
July with Harebrained! (My Block, My Hood, My City) - $3,613
August with Manny’s Deli @ Pizza City Fest for Slice Out Hunger
September - GONE MARATHONIN’ (The Friendship Center) $150
October (Chicago Survivors) - $1,100
November (Pilsen Food Pantry) - $940
December (Lurie Children’s Hospital) - $2,000
2022
January (The Night Ministry) - $1,070
February (Cruelty Free You + Me | The Catcade) - $1,130
March (Mr. Dad’s Fathers Club) - $675
April (Muscular Dystrophy Association) - $1,015
May (Chicago Reader) - $552
June (Block Club Chicago) - $1,500.64
July/August PIEternity Leave (one-off drops for MBMHMC) - $300
September (Onward Neighborhood House) - $610
October (Urban Growers Collective) - $725
November (Illinois Restaurant Association Educational Foundation) - $2,540
December (The Friendship Center) - $735
2021
January (Chicago Urban League) - $275 | $150 bonus donation to Southern Poverty Law Center
February (Connections for Abused Women and Their Children) - $405
March (Community Kitchen) - $695
April (Block Club Chicago) - $700
May (Latino Alzheimers and Memory Disorders Alliance) - $690
June (Dignity Diner) - $630
July (Chicago House) - $522
August (The Friendship Center) - $525
September GONE FISHIN’
October (The Friendship Center) - $1,185
November (Dignity Diner) - $1,130
December (Onward Neighborhood House) - $1,100
2020
August (The TRiiBE) - $501 raised
September (My Block, My Hood, My City) - $1,065
October (Greater Chicago Legal Clinic) - $825
November (Injustice Watch) - $1,725
December (The TRiiBE) - $637
Everything Else
Private drop (August 2024, benefiting the Friendship Center): $3,500
Steven Carruthers memorial donations (July 2024, benefiting Dignity Diner/McHenry County Conservation Foundation): $5,305
Friends of McPherson fundraiser: $1,200 (May 2024)
Friends of McPherson fundraiser: $750 (May 2023)
Wordloaf newsletter: $250 (January 2023)
Crust Fund t-shirt orders: $700 (June 2022, for The Friendship Center)
That one time a pizza place “collaborated” with a featured special and then didn’t send the money so I had to do it myself and am still resentful: $175 (April 2022)
Sales of the tried-but-not-nailed Crust Fund Snapback pilot hats: $240 (December 2022)
Private event: $125 (December 2022)
Crust Fund sweatshirt preorders: $760 (October 2022)
Pizza for Everyone: $18,225 (Published 2021)