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· Public charity

Near West Side Partners Inc

Revitalize and sustain the near west side as a thriving business and residential corridor through collaborative efforts to promote economic development, improved housing, unified neighborhood identity, branding, and greater safety for residents and businesses.

$230k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$148k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$793kCommunity Improvement$644kEducation$305kCrime & Legal$170kHousing & Shelter$117kArts & Culture$94kFood & Nutrition$41kYouth Development$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $164,271, the rows itemized in this filing. The $229,569 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $65,298 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $148k
$8,283
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Aurora Health Care Inc$148,488
Fruition MKE LLC$8,283
Merrill Park Manor LLC$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KALYANA ORGANICS: $10k → 5%MAURES DEVELOPMENT GROUP LLC: $22k → 17%Aurora Health Care Inc: $148k → 14%PINK BAKERY INC: $11k → 5%MAURES DEVELOPMENT GROUP LLC: $16k → 17%A Goodmans Desserts LLC: $10k → 17%BEST CHOICE MECHANICAL: $8k → 17%WATERSVIEW INVESTMENT GROUP LLC: $80k → 17%MILWAUKEE URBAN STRATEGIC INV: $38k → 17%MILWAUKEE URBAN STRATEGIC INV: $30k → 17%MILWAUKEE URBAN STRATEGIC INV: $27k → 17%Lisa Kaye Catering LLC: $11k → 17%FRUITION MKE LLC: $96k → 17%BUFFALO BOSS NORTH: $75k → 17%MERRILL PARK MANOR LLC: $66k → 17%BUFFALO BOSS NORTH: $36k → 17%BUFFALO BOSS NORTH: $29k → 17%WASHINGTON PARK MEDIA CENTER: $23k → 17%PEDAL MILWAUKEE LLC: $23k → 17%PWS COMPUTERS: $19k → 17%VLIET VENTURES LLC: $15k → 17%MERRILL PARK MANOR LLC: $12k → 17%MERRILL PARK MANOR LLC: $12k → 17%VERTICAL ESSENCE DANCE COMPANY: $11k → 17%LISA KAYE CATERING: $10k → 17%DADDY'S SOUL FOOD & GRILL: $10k → 17%PWS COMPUTERS: $10k → 17%Fruition MKE LLC: $8k → 17%Merrill Park Manor LLC: $8k → 17%CREAM CITY PROPERTIES: $6k → 17%SAFE & SOUND: $109k → 17%NEW STATE MKE LLC: $74k → 17%WIEGAND ENTERPRISES LLC: $68k → 17%SAFE & SOUND: $61k → 17%NEW STATE MKE LLC: $39k → 17%NEW STATE MKE LLC: $23k → 17%PERITAL LLC: $13k → 17%PERITAL LLC: $13k → 17%WIEGAND ENTERPRISES LLC: $6k → 17%VLIET STREET PARTNERS LLC: $15k → 17%Milwaukee Downtown Inc: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 12 repeat orgs$939k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
30

Total granted

$1.5M
$782k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+61%

Still filing today

25%
7%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementEducationCrime & LegalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WE
    WIEGAND ENTERPRISES LLC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $337k
  • MU
    Marquette University
    3× · 2017–2019 · $305k · revenue +46%
  • Safe & Sound Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $170k · revenue -1%

Funded once

  • LM
    LONG MADE PROPERTIES LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • FM
    FRUITION MKE LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $96k
  • WI
    WATERSVIEW INVESTMENT GROUP LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $80k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WIEGAND ENTERPRISES LLC: $336,500 · OtherWIEGAND ENTERPRISES LLCBUFFALO BOSS NORTH: $140,000 · OtherBUFFALO BOSS NORTHNEW STATE MKE LLC: $135,016 · OtherNEW STATE MKE LLCLONG MADE PROPERTIES LLC: $100,000 · OtherLONG MADE PROPERTIES LLCMERRILL PARK MANOR LLC: $97,476 · OtherMERRILL PARK MANOR LLCFRUITION MKE LLC: $96,000 · OtherFRUITION MKE LLCWATERSVIEW INVESTMENT GROUP LLC: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherWIEGAND ENTERPRISES LLC: $73,700 · OtherART INTERSECTION MKE LLC: $69,800 · Other+28 more: $493,743 · Other+28 moreMarquette University: $305,470 · EducationMarquette Univ…Safe & Sound Inc: $169,618 · Crime & LegalAURORA HEALTH CARE INC: $148,488 · HealthMILWAUKEE URBAN STRATEGIC INVESTMENT CORP: $94,646 · Community ImprovementMILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementMILWAUKEE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $12,500 · Community Improvement
Other$1,702,235Education$305,470Crime & Legal$169,618Health$148,488Community Improvement$122,146

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarquette University: $305,470 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSafe & Sound Inc: $169,618 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE URBAN STRATEGIC INVESTMENT CORP: $94,646 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Marquette University ↗
  • Who funds Safe & Sound Inc ↗
  • Who funds AURORA HEALTH CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE URBAN STRATEGIC INVESTMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Near West Side Partners Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Near West Side Partners Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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