California · Nonprofit
Westside Community Improvement Assn
Westside Community Improvement Assn (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,331,719 to it, the largest being ST JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ($465,183). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Westside Community Improvement Assn does
Mission
Combatting urban blight and restoring neighborhoods by acquiring and rehabilitating unused/underutilized properties and creating neighborhood community centers and providing a variety of educational, recreational, and vocational services where such facilities are lacking or insufficient.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family Resource CenterThe Family Resource Center offers free parenting classes for Westside Families, space for supervised visitation and multi family visitation for families with CWS cases, playgroups for families with children 0-5, we have a clothing closet, emergency food pantry, connect people with resources including benefits eligibility, financial literacy and career counseling. We run job training programs working closely with CalWorks, the local workforce development board, and employment training division and job market to train and place people with barriers to employment into career track skilled trades. We host programs like Paso a Paso who offer parenting, support groups, mental health first aid, dance therapy and more. We host community work days, free produce distribution every Saturday and community workdays hosting over 1000 volunteers per year.
$791,468 spent100% of program spendingSSEEDS: Environmental Stewardship Youth programs served over100 youth leading biker ides out into nature along the waterfront and coastal trails we also hosted a bicycle day. We hosted a 5 day environmental stewardship camp, SEEDS a week in the redwoods, teaching plant and wildlife identification, leave no trace camping, water safety and a week of fun in nature. Our youth and program participants are primarily neighbors from the most ethnically diverse lowest median income section of our community.
Other Program Services: We teach culinary classes to youth including food security, gardening and food production, pastry and baking, cultural culinary experiences with local mmulti cultural guest chefs, kids get serve safe certified, older kids study for =food service managers certificates, learn barista skills in our teaching caf, even take a series in entrepreneurism completing a mini business plan. We also prepare and serve meals to headstart , early headstart, little learners and aldregrove charter school bringing culinary series graduates on as interns and employees. .
Community Building Initative - Renovating a previous school building for use in Community Outreach programs
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $791,468.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.7M to $3.3M (+23%).
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 31% · 2020 52% · 2021 45% · 2022 40% · 2023 46% · 2024 21% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of Westside Community Improvement Assn’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $22k → $100k.
2 of 9 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 Westside Community Improvement Assn’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
Westside Community Improvement Assn leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 Westside Community Improvement Assn.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 96% · 2019 99% · 2020 91% · 2021 82% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
20% of Westside Community Improvement Assn's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
98% of Westside Community Improvement Assn's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Westside Community Improvement Assn runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Westside Community Improvement Assn
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Westside Community Improvement Assn: 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 Westside Community Improvement Assn?
- Westside Community Improvement Assn (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,331,719 to it, the largest being ST JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ($465,183). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Westside Community Improvement Assn have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,331,719 in grants to Westside Community Improvement Assn, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Westside Community Improvement Assn?
- ST JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $465,183 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Westside Community Improvement Assn find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 9 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