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CHESTER EASTSIDE INC

CHESTER EASTSIDE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $877,179 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ($225,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$866k
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$877k
Net assets
$203k
14/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Chester Eastside Inc does

Mission

Charitable food, education and literacy programs. Chester eastside is a welcoming and inclusive community that enables individuals of all ages to achieve their goals and aspirations and promotes peace and justice in chester through advocacy and programs for education and social services.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Food pantry: in 2024 the food pantry and hot meals programs distributed 185,349 pounds of food which provided 218,068 meals. It also provided a thanksgiving dinner for over 250 needy families, complete with a turkey.

    $683,325 spentof which $365,138 as grants$365,138 earned by the program
    85% of program spending
  2. Youth programs: in 2024 the after-school program served 24 students in grades 1-4. The phoenix summer camp served 28 children and youth in grades 1-8. The summer camp employed a coordinator and three counselors.

    $118,449 spent$1,710 earned by the program
    15% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $801,774.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($445k) Expenses 100 ($477k) Net assets -911 ($-33663)2018 Revenue 136 ($607k) Expenses 119 ($570k) Net assets 100 ($4k)2019 Revenue 145 ($647k) Expenses 123 ($586k) Net assets 2902 ($107k)2020 Revenue 112 ($499k) Expenses 69 ($331k) Net assets 7434 ($275k)2021 Revenue 133 ($592k) Expenses 112 ($536k) Net assets 8073 ($298k)2022 Revenue 116 ($515k) Expenses 107 ($512k) Net assets 8138 ($301k)2023 Revenue 135 ($601k) Expenses 144 ($687k) Net assets 6904 ($255k)2024 Revenue 195 ($866k) Expenses 192 ($918k) Net assets 5491 ($203k)
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Revenue (195)Expenses (192)Net assets (5491)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $158k to $327k (+108%).

$185k
$246k
$158k
$327k
$384k
$326k
$275k
$224k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 10% · 2021 11% · 2022 23% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

57% of CHESTER EASTSIDE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$32k
’17
$37k
’18
$61k
’19
$168k
’20
$55k
’21
$2k
’22
−$87k
’23
−$52k
’24
2.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Rev Andrew Jacob

Executive director

Board chair

John Mackey

Chairperson (til 12/24)

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed111315121213139
Joined·+5+5+1+2+4+2+0
No longer listed·3342324
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $15k → $190k.

7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CHESTER EASTSIDE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CHESTER EASTSIDE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

72% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHESTER EASTSIDE INC.

26%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 81% · 2020 56% · 2021 35% · 2022 39% · 2023 26% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

71% of CHESTER EASTSIDE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

93% of CHESTER EASTSIDE INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
RI
MO
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $407k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHESTER EASTSIDE INC has grown faster than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · below the median
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 7%Fundraising 6%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHESTER EASTSIDE INC?
CHESTER EASTSIDE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $877,179 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ($225,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHESTER EASTSIDE INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $877,179 in grants to CHESTER EASTSIDE INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHESTER EASTSIDE INC?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHESTER EASTSIDE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing