California · Nonprofit
WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL
WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,485,159 to it, the largest being THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ($750,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Westside Neighborhood School does
Mission
Wns is committed to creating a deeply caring community of lifelong learners that nurtures students from diverse backgrounds to reach their full potential, develop cultural competency, and inspire the world with their curiosity, innovation, compassion, and stewardship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Westside Neighborhood School (the school) is accredited by the california association of independent schools. The school operates a private preschool, elementary, and middle school, which offers a well-rounded academic curriculum, including language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, physical education, art, music, technology and foreign language. The school's total enrollment in fiscal year 2024-25 is 589. The school embraces a positive, child-centered approach to education that strives to fully develop the potential of each student, intellectually, socially, emotionally, and physically. Our high academic and ethical standards encourage students to take responsibility for their learning and their behavior. Our curriculum is designed to engage students in a highly differentiated, project-based, active learning curriculum that challenges all students to grow. We provide an environment where each child is able to experience success, is confident in taking intellectual risks, where individuals feel valued in their differences and value the differences in others. Our goal is to instill in our students a love of learning and an understanding of our world, and to provide for…
$29,526,547 spentof which $3,654,379 as grants$27,405,288 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $29,526,547.
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 2023 to 2024, from $30M to $125M (+310%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 8% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% 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.
Board chair
Janelva Williams
Board chair(through 06/2025)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $115k → $442k.
16 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
35% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 31% · 2019 47% · 2020 32% · 2021 26% · 2022 21% · 2023 15% — 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
60% of WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
92% of WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL: 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 NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL?
- WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,485,159 to it, the largest being THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ($750,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $3,485,159 in grants to WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL?
- THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL 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 47 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing