Minnesota · Nonprofit
EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC
EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,882,013 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($12,069,690). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What East Side Neighborhood Services Inc does
Mission
Every person thrives, every voice matters. That is the vision of east side neighborhood services. Our mission is to build pathways toward equity by disrupting social and economic barriers. We are called to assist people to envision a future of hope and prosperity by providing fundamental learning blocks, connecting to broader social and economic networks, preparing for today's job market through placement and supports, and ensuring people are healthy, stable, and engaged. East side's goals reflect its core priorities: that people have the stability that they need to thrive; children and youth foster curiosity and autonomy through educational pathways; older adults are valued, socially and intellectually engaged, and able to live in community; families build foundations for healing and growth; and our community has a place to be, heal, and learn together. We pursue these goals through programs and services that span generations and neighborhoods.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
East side neighborhood services, inc., offers a holistic approach to community impact. We offer programs and services across all generations to address the community's most critical needs. Each program has goals and objectives that align with east side's three priority impact areas.senior community service employment program (scsep) - promotes the dignity and self-sufficiency of older, unemployed, low-income residents by placing them in temporary part-time community service jobs in which they earn minimum wage. Scsep served 116 older low-income adults through work experience and training focused on developing technological skills needed for the remote and blended workplace. Transportation program we provide transportation across all program areas. The primary function of the transportation department is to provide transportation for shopping, medical appointments, and other needs, to people 60 and over and those with disabilities. In 2024, esns provided 1,776 rides to 298 older and/or disabled adults.vital living - helps older adults engage with others, better manage their mental health and chronic conditions, and maintain independence and also provides caregiving support through…
$2,320,431 spent$44,280 earned by the program33% of program spendingCamp bovey - located in gordon, wisconsin, camp bovey offers nature education and outdoor skills through residential camp sessions for youth, ages 9-13, and family groups each summer. Camp bovey hosted over 30 young campers in the summer of 2024. Out-of-school time (ost) programs provides safe and fun spaces for academic enrichment, social-emotional support, and leadership opportunities for youth in grades k-12. From january through august of 2024, we served 72 students through our two sites: 33 students enrolled at ost luxton and 39 students enrolled at ost mulberry. Menlo park academy - menlo park academy is an alternative high school within the minneapolis public school district that enrolls an average of sixty 11th and 12th grade students at a time, serving 80-90 students over the course of a school year. Most are significantly behind in credits and come to menlo to progress toward graduation. Menlo park embraces students who feel disenfranchised from traditional school settings and struggle to engage. The school utilizes social-emotional learning strategies to create a safe, welcoming, and inclusive environment to revive students' enthusiasm to learn, grow, and achieve. Menlo…
$1,194,834 spent$729,426 earned by the program17% of program spendingCreative arts therapy - provides trauma-informed preventative and needs-based programming to individuals and groups. The program is designed to enrich self-esteem and interpersonal skills, support the development of healthy coping methods, and to encourage healthy risk-taking and decision-making. Creative arts therapy served 28 youth through individual therapy; of these, 80% were bipoc. 150 additional youth were served through targeted and preventative therapeutic cat groups.family healing - this program takes a trauma-informed approach to addressing relationship violence and seeks to heal and transform abusive behaviors so that clients and their families can thrive. Family healing served 239 clients during 2024, with 36% successfully completing the program by the end of the year and another 49% continuing their healing journey into 2025.northeast child development center (necdc) - licensed early childhood education for up to 88 children from six weeks through preschool. The program helps children to develop physically, socially, and cognitively according to individual learning styles. In 2024, 86 children were enrolled at necdc.
$1,016,805 spent$1,230,124 earned by the program15% of program spendingFood programs - provide food support to individuals who may have difficulty accessing traditional food shelves or grocery stores. Esns food programs consist of two brick and mortar food shelves and a mobile food shelf program serving 53 low-income apartment buildings. Esns food programs distributed over 1,000,000 pounds of food in 2024 through our food shelves and 12 seasonal fresh produce drop events. Combined, esns food programs provided over 42,500 household services. Over 55% of those who received food support through esns were age 65 and older.additionally, esns food programs works with three grocery stores in minneapolis to reduce food wastetarget dinkytown, target quarry, and lunds & byerlys in ne minneapolis. In 2024, our team diverted over 275,000 pounds of good, nutritious and edible food from the waste stream through our food rescue partnerships.
$2,029,907 spent29% of program spendingYouth employment - offers youth ages 14-21 opportunities to develop and achieve goals for academic success, provides job skills and career development, and helps forge connections between training, internships, and volunteer work to help youth gain on-the-job experience. The program placed and supported 32 low-income youth and young adults in paid internships designed to build workplace readiness skills.
$448,351 spent6% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,010,328.
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.
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 $7.5M to $8.5M (+13%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 53% · 2018 54% · 2019 48% · 2020 54% · 2021 52% · 2022 52% · 2023 53% · 2024 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Mary Anstett Ostapenko
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $2.3M.
14 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 80% · 2019 64% · 2020 34% · 2021 63% · 2022 72% · 2023 64% — 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
51% of EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
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
EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $641k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 22 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- Department of State$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC?
- EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,882,013 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($12,069,690). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $17,882,013 in grants to EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC?
- CWI WORKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,069,690 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 63 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing