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WEST SIDE JUSTICE CENTER INC

WEST SIDE JUSTICE CENTER INC (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,002,358 to it, the largest being Illinois Equal Justice Foundation ($338,770). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$13M
Revenue FY2024
19
Funders on record
$1.0M
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
11/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%

Against its field

WEST SIDE JUSTICE CENTER INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)98% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($114k) Expenses 100 ($103k) Net assets 100 ($118k)2019 Revenue 236 ($270k) Expenses 265 ($274k) Net assets 1 ($2k)2020 Revenue 5461 ($6.2M) Expenses 6516 ($6.7M) Net assets -422 ($-498573)2021 Revenue 6145 ($7.0M) Expenses 6732 ($7.0M) Net assets 114 ($134k)2022 Revenue 7774 ($8.9M) Expenses 8624 ($8.9M) Net assets 81 ($96k)2023 Revenue 9502 ($11M) Expenses 10584 ($11M) Net assets 2 ($2k)2024 Revenue 11729 ($13M) Expenses 12322 ($13M) Net assets 1201 ($1.4M)
2017201920202021202220232024
Revenue (11729)Expenses (12322)Net assets (1201)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 47% · 2020 96% · 2021 93% · 2022 98% · 2023 96% · 2024 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of WEST SIDE JUSTICE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 266 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
17
$4k
19
$500k
20
$57k
21
$39k
22
$92k
23
$654k
24
0.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $13k → $65k.

6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)24% 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 JUSTICE CENTER INC’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

WEST SIDE JUSTICE CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

77% 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 JUSTICE CENTER INC.

34%
largest funder
55%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 45% · 2019 34% · 2020 62% · 2021 32% · 2022 56% · 2023 53%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

38% of WEST SIDE JUSTICE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

91% of WEST SIDE JUSTICE CENTER INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
PA
NJ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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19
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23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $245k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

03Its place in the field

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 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 JUSTICE CENTER INC

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEST SIDE JUSTICE CENTER INC: 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 JUSTICE CENTER INC?
WEST SIDE JUSTICE CENTER INC (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,002,358 to it, the largest being Illinois Equal Justice Foundation ($338,770). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WEST SIDE JUSTICE CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,002,358 in grants to WEST SIDE JUSTICE CENTER INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WEST SIDE JUSTICE CENTER INC?
Illinois Equal Justice Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $338,770 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WEST SIDE JUSTICE CENTER INC 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 19funders 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