Illinois · Nonprofit
NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE
NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,000 to it, the largest being WIEBOLDT FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $1k
What Northside Action for Justice does
Mission
Social Services advocacy organization, with advocacy for housing, education, human services and mutual aid,
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Housing-Most notable achievements: Establishment of a tenants organization at the Northpoint Apartments to help residents resist unfair treatment and evictions. Work on the Senior Bill of Rights which pushes for the right to accessible and affordable housing and treatment of seniors.
$0 spentEducation-Most notable achievements: Worked to get progressive, pro-student advocates on the Chicago School Board. Initiated the Uptown Sustainable Community Village to connect Uplift High School with the neighborhood elementary schools.
$0 spentHuman Services-Most notable achievements: Helped win passage of a bill in the Illinois state legislature that prevents retaliation against nursing home residents. Worked to get an accessible Illinois Dept of Human Services office in the Uptown neighborhood.
$0 spentMutual Aid-Weekly distribution of food and other resources to low-income and unhoused people in the Uptown, Edgewater and Rogers Park neighborhoods.
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $43k to $1k (−97%).
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.
100% of NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Marc Kaplan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE’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
NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
44% 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 NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE's revenue fell 39% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE: 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 NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE?
- NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,000 to it, the largest being WIEBOLDT FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $90,000 in grants to NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE?
- WIEBOLDT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHSIDE ACTION FOR JUSTICE 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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