Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES
NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,781 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($32,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $393k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $49k
- Net assets
- $71k
What Northwest Victim Services does
Mission
Northwest Victim Services (NVS) provides prompt, effective and holistic services to all victims of crime in Northwest Philadelphia while increasing prevention strategies to elevate community safety.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Offering Assistance to Victims of Crime - Reducing fear of crime, meeting emotional and social needs of victims and witnesses, providing support to the community, increasing level of cooperation of community groups with each other and with city/social agencies in addressing the problems of safety, increasing cooperation with law enforcement officials and increasing their awareness of community concerns in order to foster a better relationship between the community and law enforcement officials. (See Schedule O for additional details) . NVS provided services annually to approximately 1,880 crime victims from the 5th, 14th, 35th and 39th police districts of Philadelphia. Additional services provided to these victims include supportive counseling and information and referral. In addition to providing services to crime victims, NVS provides community programs to increase safety and knowledge of NVSs services. NVS also works closely with local and citywide community groups and agencies such as the District Attorneys Office and played an active role in the Philadelphia Coalition for Victim Advocacy and several state and local community task forces. .
$386,061 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $386,061.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $36k to $64k (+77%).
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: 2020 96% · 2021 94% · 2022 98% · 2024 89% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Melany Nelson
Executive Director
Board chair
Cristsandra Penn
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $16.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES’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
NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
66% of NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $17k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES's revenue grew 20% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES: 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 NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES?
- NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,781 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($32,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $48,781 in grants to NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES?
- THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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