New York · Nonprofit
WEST SIDE FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC
WEST SIDE FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,402,746 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($502,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $74M
What West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing Inc does
Mission
The mission of the west side federation for senior & supportive housing, inc. Is to develop, manage & provide supportive services in housing for low-income, elderly, disabled and homeless persons.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing - wsfssh develops and manages housing for low income persons in new york city. Since it was founded in 1977, wsfssh has developed close to 2,255 units of housing in 30 buildings located on the upper west side of manhattan, in harlem, chelsea and the bronx. Wsfssh's buildings include both new construction and gut renovations projects, and range in size from six units to 309 units. Wsfssh's central goal is to provide safe, sustainable and affordable housing that supports the dignity of each of its residents and enhances community both inside and outside its buildings. It does this by integrating compassionate property management with on-site supportive social services. In addition, wsfssh works to make all of its buildings as energy-efficient as possible. Wsfssh is currently developing several additional affordable housing projects in manhattan and in the bronx.
$15,340,885 spent$12,751,555 earned by the program51% of program spendingSocial services and residential care- wsfssh makes supportive social services available to all residents in its buildings. These residents include independent seniors, frail elderly individuals,older persons living with serious mental illnesses, homeless individuals, single older persons, persons living with physically handicapping conditions, grandparents raising their grandchildren, and families. On-site services are provided by a professional staff that includes 60 msws and lmsws and 127 additional social service staff. Services include case management, administration of medication, personal care, housekeeping, nutrition counseling, mental health counseling and referral, and recreational activities. In four of its buildings wsfssh provides full congregate services including three meals a day, seven days a week.
$14,522,898 spent49% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,863,783.
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 2017 to 2018, from $57M to $107M (+89%).
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 33% · 2018 35% · 2019 30% · 2020 36% · 2021 45% · 2022 38% · 2023 51% · 2024 56% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of WEST SIDE FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% 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
Paul R Freitag
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $30k → $32k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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 FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 35% · 2021 81% · 2022 51% · 2023 47% — 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
25% of WEST SIDE FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
WEST SIDE FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $446k 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 FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 449 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 449 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WEST SIDE FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.4M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$7.4M
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 FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 41 related entities
- Marseilles LLC · disregarded
- Wsfssh Pa LLC · disregarded
- Ih Associates LLC · disregarded
- East One Thirty Eighth Housing Development Fund Companyinc · exempt
- Euclid Hall Housing Development Fund Company Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST SIDE FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC?
- WEST SIDE FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,402,746 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($502,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST SIDE FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,402,746 in grants to WEST SIDE FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST SIDE FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC?
- THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $502,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST SIDE FEDERATION FOR SENIOR AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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