Illinois · Nonprofit
WEST SIDE CONNECTOR
WEST SIDE CONNECTOR (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,620 to it, the largest being JOSEPH R & HELEN SHAKER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WEST SIDE CONNECTOR runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,726 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Community Memorial Foundationshared funders
- Marquette Bank Affordable Housing Foundationportfolio match
- Community Christian Ministriesportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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: 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of WEST SIDE CONNECTOR’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 CONNECTOR’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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 CONNECTOR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
“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
98% of WEST SIDE CONNECTOR's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Community Memorial Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Marquette Bank Affordable Housing Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Christian Ministriesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hodgson Russ Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Austin Coming Togetherportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Watertown Area Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The United Way of Franklin County Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Whiteside Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keefe Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marshfield Area United Wayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joseph and Sharon Darcey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Marathon County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like WEST SIDE CONNECTOR
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 CONNECTOR: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST SIDE CONNECTOR?
- WEST SIDE CONNECTOR (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,620 to it, the largest being JOSEPH R & HELEN SHAKER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST SIDE CONNECTOR have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $402,620 in grants to WEST SIDE CONNECTOR, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST SIDE CONNECTOR?
- JOSEPH R & HELEN SHAKER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST SIDE CONNECTOR 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing