Illinois · Nonprofit
GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,136,374 to it, the largest being CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ($11,929,727). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $9.9M
What Greater West Town Community Development Project does
Mission
Greater west town development project's mission is to build a community based response that expands educational and economic opportunities for chicago's low-income community residents in the humboldt park, east garfield park, west garfield park, austin, and north lawndale community areas. We achieve this mission by providing comprehensive workforce development and educational services to our community, supplemented by rigorous research, advocacy efforts and policy initiatives that link the employment and training of the neighborhood workforce with other key local economic development efforts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
On april 26, 2024, the chicago public schools board of education approved the Greater West Town Community Development Project to assume governance and oversight of an additional youth connection charter school campus, yccs-west, effective july 1, 2024. Yccs-west is located at 4909 w. Division street in chicago, illinois. This approval represents an organizational change and expansion of gwtp's alternative education programming beyond its existing west town academy.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Employment training - vocational training & career pathways: Greater West Town Community Development Project (gwtp) operates workforce development, employment training, and career preparation services in partnership with local industry and employer partners serving high school non-completers, opportunity youth, single parents, low-income and unemployed individuals, individuals with limited english proficiency, returning citizens, and those experiencing homelessness. Gwtp offers two career training programs in high-growth fields - woodworking & solid surface manufacturing and shipping & receiving. These program are approved by the illinois board of higher education and accredited by the accrediting commission of career schools and colleges and integrate technical skills training, basic skills support, and 12 months of post-program assistance, including job readiness and placement services. Through gwtp's career pathways program, gwtp delivers job readiness training to prepare youth and adult participants for employment or post secondary education. Gwtp provides career services and college counseling, including case management, individualized education and employment planning, job…
$3,864,678 spent$10,537 earned by the program56% of program spendingAlternative education: Greater West Town Community Development Project (gwtp) operates west town academy and the newly acquired yccs west high school, providing alternative education services for at-risk youth who have disengaged from traditional high schools or ged program and want to earn their diploma. West town academy and yccs west offer credit recovery, individualized education plans, and one-on-one tutoring.
$2,996,695 spent$8,171 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,861,373.
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.
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 $12M to $13M (+8%).
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 45% · 2018 93% · 2019 94% · 2020 95% · 2021 92% · 2022 93% · 2023 93% · 2024 86% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Keisha Davis-Johnson
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $971k → $2.0M.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 96% · 2019 88% · 2020 52% · 2021 85% · 2022 81% · 2023 76% — 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
50% of GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
100% of GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $865k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT?
- GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,136,374 to it, the largest being CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ($11,929,727). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $14,136,374 in grants to GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT?
- CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP is the largest funder on record, with $11,929,727 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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