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← WESTSIDE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by WESTSIDE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,007,010
Total expenses
$765,334
Contributions and grants received
$698,350
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$2,881
Other revenue
$305,779
Total assets, end of year
$3,699,759
Total liabilities, end of year
$328,907
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$3,370,852
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$593,865
Management and general expenses
$171,469
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$593,865

Program services were 77.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $459,313

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $239,037

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $2,881 · excluded $2,881

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6a · Gross rents

    real property $92,548

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $92,548

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $92,548 · excluded $92,548

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: Events

    total $16,577 · excluded $16,577

  • 11b · Other revenue: Miscellaneous

    total $196,654 · excluded $196,654

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $213,231

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $0

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $185,592 · program services $177,028 · management and general $8,564

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $18,232 · program services $17,391 · management and general $841

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $61,171 · program services $58,036 · management and general $3,135

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $4,537 · management and general $4,537

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $7,570 · management and general $7,570

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $5,000 · program services $5,000

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $4,529 · management and general $4,529

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $0

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $35,933 · program services $35,933

  • 17 · Travel

    total $9,935 · management and general $9,935

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $16,917 · program services $16,917

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $86,054 · program services $85,880 · management and general $174

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $37,696 · management and general $37,696

  • 24a · Other expenses: Food Program Consumables

    total $139,897 · program services $139,897

  • 24b · Other expenses: Training and Services

    total $61,354 · management and general $61,354

  • 24c · Other expenses: Contract Management

    total $21,554 · program services $21,554

  • 24d · Other expenses: Planning & Development

    total $19,380 · management and general $19,380

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $49,983 · program services $36,229 · management and general $13,754

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $110,537 · end of year $289,547

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $244,969 · end of year $115,042

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $0

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $3,868,369

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $573,199

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $3,105,377 · end of year $3,295,170

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $0

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $331,707 · end of year $328,907

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $110,537 · end of year $180,638

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $3,018,639 · end of year $3,190,214

Mission and programs · 2023

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.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To facilitate programs to combat urban blight and to revitalize neighborhoods by providing recreational, educational, and vocational opportunities.

  • Family Resource CenterThe Family Resource Center offers free parenting classes for westside families, space for supervised visits and multi family visitation for families with CWS cases, playgroup for families with children 0-5, we have a clothing closet, emergency food pantry, connect people with resources including benefit eligibility, financial literacy coaching and career counseling. . We run job training programs working closely with CalWorks, the local Workforce Development board and Employment Training Division and the Job Market to train and place people into career tract skilled trades. For the non English-speaking and immigrant community we host Paso a Paso which offers parenting, support groups, mental health first aid, immigration workshops, dance therapy and more. We work with English Express and Toward Citizenship to offer immigration classes, English as a second language, workforce English and systems navigation. We host community work days, free produce distribution every Saturday and coordinate community workdays hosting over 1000 volunteers per year.

    Expenses $593,865

  • SSEEDS: 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. .

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Beth Wylie

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susan Buckley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Rupali Brown

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Heidi Benzonelli

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Leslie Castellano

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Ron Kuhnel

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
8 May 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202431299349303723

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