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WESTSIDE CULTURAL ALLIANCE

WESTSIDE CULTURAL ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,750 to it, the largest being FREDERICK HENRY PRINCE TESTAMENTARY TRUST ($15,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$66k
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$28k
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%

Against its field

WESTSIDE CULTURAL ALLIANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · above the median
Months of reserve3.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)145% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($2k) Expenses 100 ($2k) Net assets 100 ($292)2022 Revenue 1399 ($26k) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 8816 ($26k)2023 Revenue 4312 ($79k) Expenses 4622 ($72k) Net assets 11486 ($34k)2025 Revenue 3586 ($66k) Expenses 3287 ($51k) Net assets 5174 ($15k)
2021202220232025
Revenue (3586)Expenses (3287)Net assets (5174)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.

2021
2022
2023
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 95% · 2023 92% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of WESTSIDE CULTURAL ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,745 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$292
21
$26k
22
$8k
23
$15k
25
3.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)45% 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 CULTURAL ALLIANCE’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 CULTURAL ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

45% 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 CULTURAL ALLIANCE.

55%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

100% of WESTSIDE CULTURAL ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

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.

Government funding WESTSIDE CULTURAL ALLIANCE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7k on record.

State$7k
Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$7k

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 WESTSIDE CULTURAL ALLIANCE

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

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTSIDE CULTURAL ALLIANCE: 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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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 WESTSIDE CULTURAL ALLIANCE?
WESTSIDE CULTURAL ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,750 to it, the largest being FREDERICK HENRY PRINCE TESTAMENTARY TRUST ($15,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WESTSIDE CULTURAL ALLIANCE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $27,750 in grants to WESTSIDE CULTURAL ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WESTSIDE CULTURAL ALLIANCE?
FREDERICK HENRY PRINCE TESTAMENTARY TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $15,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WESTSIDE CULTURAL ALLIANCE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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