Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Near West Side Partners Inc
Near West Side Partners Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,048,407 to it, the largest being Marquette University ($1,409,228). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Near West Side Partners Inc does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
NWSP has four primary focus areas related to economic and community development, including 1 Housing, 2 Commercial Corridor Development, 3 Safety, and 4 Community Health. Housing and Health have been a major driver of many programs and initiatives, including NWSPs work with Concordia 27, a comprehensive community center designed to provide great access to health and wellness programming and high-quality, affordable housing in the near west side. NWSP sees health and wellbeing, housing and commercial development as fundamental charateristics of a safe and thriving community.
$1,402,673 spentof which $227,569 as grants$385,900 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,402,673.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.0M to $13M (+92%).
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 43% · 2018 2% · 2019 7% · 2020 16% · 2021 43% · 2022 87% · 2023 22% · 2024 64% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of Near West Side Partners Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Lindsey St Arnold Bell
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $231k → $1.3M.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Near West Side Partners Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Near West Side Partners Inc’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
Near West Side Partners Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 Near West Side Partners Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 100% · 2019 41% · 2020 50% · 2021 45% · 2022 73% · 2023 49% — 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
78% of Near West Side Partners Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
50% of Near West Side Partners Inc's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $355k 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.
Against its field
Near West Side Partners Inc's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Near West Side Partners Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.4M
- Department of Transportation$1.6M
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 Near West Side Partners 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- 3424 Highland LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Near West Side Partners 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 Near West Side Partners Inc?
- Near West Side Partners Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,048,407 to it, the largest being Marquette University ($1,409,228). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Near West Side Partners Inc have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $4,048,407 in grants to Near West Side Partners Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Near West Side Partners Inc?
- Marquette University is the largest funder on record, with $1,409,228 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Near West Side Partners Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing