Ohio · Nonprofit
WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE
WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,537,180 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ($495,144). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What West Side Community House does
Mission
Transforming lives in the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy aging - we promote healthy aging and link people with resources so they may lead happy and fulfilling lives while living independently in the community. We provide a full array of services for seniors 60+, and disabled adults age 50-59 including: congregate meals, produce distribution, health and wellness programming, transportation, supportive services; and home delivered meals (100 per day) for 60+ qualifying participants. In 2023 we served or delivered 43,609 meals and provided 4,705 rides to seniors. About 130 hours were spent on activities to strengthen the body and improve cognitive function.
$740,573 spent$1,784 earned by the program51% of program spendingCommunity based services - provides supportive services to foster and adoptive families, identifies families in crisis through community referrals and self-identification and provides wraparound services to prevent the need for county involvement. Professional social work staff link families to hundreds of services in the community. Family team meetings and parent support groups are key elements of the success of this program. In 2023 there were 611 child protective services visits hosted in our welcoming community space and advocates accompanied families to 281 child protective services meetings.
$538,052 spent37% of program spendingMoms first program (family services deparment) - serving teen moms in the entire city of cleveland an provides education in cleveland public schools on std's and healthy relationships. This home visiting program supports expecting and new moms through home visit, education, care coordination and advocacy, through ten factors that support healthy babies. These factors are: health insurance, preventive care for mom, postpartum visit, well child visit, breastfeeding support, depression screening, interpersonal violence screening, safe sleep and smoking cessation. Due to the newly onboarding this program, staff were completing their training requirements and no clients were served in 2023.
$56,890 spent4% of program spendingYouth services - activities are geared toward building strong educational values, high literacy, self-esteem, self-discipline and independence. Sisterhood is an after-school and summer arts program that prepares girls ages 10-18 for womanhood and their life beyond.
$102,548 spent$30,430 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,438,063.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.1M to $2.9M (−7%).
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 70% · 2018 65% · 2019 66% · 2020 65% · 2021 74% · 2022 73% · 2023 69% · 2024 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Rachelle Milner
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $157k → $95k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 COMMUNITY HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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 COMMUNITY HOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 55% · 2019 51% · 2020 34% · 2021 21% · 2022 84% · 2023 33% — 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
60% of WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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 WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE'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 $762k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $776k 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
WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
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 WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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 COMMUNITY HOUSE: 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 COMMUNITY HOUSE?
- WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,537,180 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ($495,144). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,537,180 in grants to WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND is the largest funder on record, with $495,144 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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