New York · Nonprofit
WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE
WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE (New York) receives grants from 210 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,539,767 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,635,501). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 210
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What West Side Center for Community Life does
Mission
To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food access program: wscah's food access program includes our food distribution efforts and sourcing operations at our 86th street and 549 w 180th street locations in manhattan, as well as food distributions in partnership with other community-based organizations throughout new york city. Wscah distributed 5.3 million pounds of fresh, nutritious food, including 2.8 million pounds of fresh produce. All distributions are free of charge to our community members.in addition, wscah is the coordinating partner and fiscal sponsor for the roundtable: allies for food access, a dedicated network of emergency food providers collaborating to bring more resources to communities. The roundtable is deepening strategic collaboration around purchasing healthy foods, including bulk orders, capacity building, and advocating for changes to food and funding systems at the city and state levels.
$10,270,634 spentof which $5,820,584 as grants$3,164,294 earned by the program93% of program spendingBenefits access program:wscah's benefits access team connects customers to a comprehensive suite of benefits, including snap and health insurance sign-ups, to support our community members. Our team connected more than 1,600 families to these vital supports, securing over $3.5 million in snap benefits.
$744,359 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,014,993.
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 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $25M (+134%).
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 22% · 2018 28% · 2019 18% · 2020 7% · 2021 11% · 2022 22% · 2023 20% · 2024 14% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% 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
Gregory Silverman
CEO/executive director
Board chair
Susan Mclaughlin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 92 funders, grant income rose $695k → $4.6M.
25 of 210 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 210 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
WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
61% 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 WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 47% · 2019 31% · 2020 19% · 2021 23% · 2022 27% · 2023 16% — 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
48% of WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
81% of WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 144 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 144 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: 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 WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE?
- WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE (New York) receives grants from 210 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,539,767 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,635,501). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 210 organizations giving $25,539,767 in grants to WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE, 126 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,635,501 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 210 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