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Neighborhood Allies Inc

Our mission is to engage pittsburgh area residents and organizations with innovative tools that expand opportunity for transformative community change.

$475k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$71k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$4.3MHousing & Shelter$790kEducation$105kHuman Services$105kEnvironment$65kArts & Culture$30kHealth$6k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $374,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $475,400 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $100,900 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $158k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $202k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CENTER$70,750
CCAC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$70,000
HOMEWOOD CHILDREN'S VILLAGE$60,750
ASSEMBLE$15,750
HOTEL TERRACE HALL LLC$15,000
TECH 25$15,000
CAMBRI CAPITAL INVESTMENTS LLC$15,000
THAW INC$15,000
UJAMAA COLLECTIVE$15,000
A'S VISION$15,000
AMANI CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$15,000
NEW SUN RISING$15,000
CLOUD COLLECTIVE MEDIA PRODUCTIONS$11,750
THE PEARL AT 760 LLC$10,000
HORD PROPERTY LLC$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $660k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION: $30k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $35k → 11%LANDFORCE - PGH CONSERVATION CORPS: $65k → 11%THAW INC: $15k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $15k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $15k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $12k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $72k → 11%NORTHSIDE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM: $15k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $75k → 11%AWAKEN PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%POORLAW: $11k → 11%HOMEWOOD-BRUSHTON YMCA: $88k → 11%HOMEWOOD-BRUSHTON YMCA: $70k → 11%HOMEWOOD-BRUSHTON YMCA: $30k → 11%HOMEWOOD-BRUSHTON YMCA: $8k → 11%THE CENTER THAT CARES: $75k → 11%REIMAGINE REENTRY INC: $15k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 20 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
66

Total granted

$2.6M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+38%

Still filing today

75%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    6× · 2017–2025 · $376k · revenue +44%
  • PA
    PENNSYLVANIA AFFORDABLE HSG CORP
    2× · 2023–2024 · $320k · revenue +4% · 33% of their budget
  • TG
    The Greenwood Plan
    2× · 2021–2022 · $115k · revenue +338%

Funded once

  • FD
    FIFTH & DINWIDDIE EAST LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
  • SM
    SALEM'S MARKET CENTRE LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $250k
  • LB
    LEVEL-EQUITY BUILDING INC
    one grant, 2022 · $225k · 25% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Pittsburgh Housing Development Corp

To initiate, plan, finance, develop and manage housing development in the City of Pittsburgh, and upon request, in other municipalities with particular, but not exclusive, emphasis on such development in low to moderate income census…

Housing & Shelter
2
Pittsburgh Economic and Industrial Development Corporation

The Organization's purpose is to formulate, implement and promote commercial, industrial and other economic development goals, strategies and projects in the City of Pittsburgh. This includes purchase and master-leasing of real estate, as…

Community Improvement
3
Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment G

PCRG is a coalition of community leaders working for economic justice, equitable investment practices and sufficient financial resources to revitalize communities throughout Allegheny County, PA

Community Improvement
4
City of Bridges Clt

To build community ownership that preserves permanent affordability, empowers individuals, and ensures responsible growth and stewardship.

Housing & Shelter
5
Regional Workforce Collaborative - Swpa

To provide policy guidance, technical assistance, and program oversight for the city of pittsburgh and allegheny county, and to assist in the economic development of southwestern pa region.

Community Improvement
6
The Regional Opportunity Center D/B/a Vibrant Pittsburgh

Vibrant pittsburgh's mission is to accelerate the business community toward equitable, inclusive, and diverse workplaces, creating a future-forward region.

Arts & Culture
7
Pittsburgh United

Pittsburgh United, Inc. strives to advance social & economic justice in the

Community Improvement
8
Hilltop Urban Farm

To create and sustain a new, regional asset in south Pittsburghs Hilltop community, that is committed to growing food, growing farmers and growing a community. Hilltop Urban Farm will benefit its neighbors by being a catalyst for community…

Food & Nutrition
9
Bethel Trinity Community Development

Bethel trinity community development corporation is a nonprofit that exists to restore, rebuild, and empower communities, especially in pittsburgh's hill district, by adressing systemic inequities through holistic, faith-driven development…

Philanthropy
10
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
11
Pittsburgh Works Together Inc

Educate and advocate on behalf of the construction, energy, and manufacturing industries and the resulting economic and job growth in pennsylvania.

Community Improvement
12
Build Philly Now

Our mission is to advance bold ideas for the built environment in the City of Philadelphia and the surrounding region, with a specific focus on transformative projects and ideas in the areas of housing, infrastructure, and energy.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Empowerment Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boyd Nelson Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 94 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/76
Grantees still filing
42/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIFTH & DINWIDDIE EAST LLC: $300,000 · OtherFIFTH & DINWIDDIE EAST LLCSALEM'S MARKET CENTRE LLC: $250,000 · OtherSALEM'S MARKET CENTRE LLCBENEDICT DWELLINGS LLC: $140,000 · OtherBENEDICT DWELLINGS LLCOMICELO CARES INC: $105,000 · OtherOMICELO CARES INCOPERATION BETTER BLOCK INC: $87,000 · OtherTHE KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · OtherHILL DISTRICT FEDERAL CRED: $75,000 · Other+44 more: $773,300 · Other+44 moreCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $516,306 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF …UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $375,750 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBU…PROPEL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationPROPEL SCHOOLS FOUNDA…+3 more: $60,000 · Education+3 morePENNSYLVANIA AFFORDABLE HSG CORP: $320,000 · Housing & ShelterPENNSYLVANIA AF…LEVEL-EQUITY BUILDING INC: $225,000 · Housing & ShelterLEVEL-EQUITY BU…REBUILDING TOGETHER PITTSBURGH: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterREBUILDING TOGE…MCKEES ROCKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterMCKEES ROCKS CO…OAKLAND PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterOAKLAND PLANNIN…+1 more: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $200,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATI…The Greenwood Plan: $115,000 · Community ImprovementThe Greenwood …Catapult Greater Pittsburgh: $83,750 · Community ImprovementCatapult Great…WILKINSBURG CDC HOLDING CO: $75,000 · Community ImprovementWILKINSBURG CD…MILLVALE BOROUGH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $45,000 · Community ImprovementMILLVALE BOROU…UJAMAA COLLECTIVE: $45,000 · Community ImprovementUJAMAA COLLECT…Mount Washington Community Development Corporation: $40,000 · Community ImprovementMount Washingt…MON VALLEY INITIATIVE: $35,000 · Community ImprovementHAZELWOOD INITIATIVE INC: $30,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $45,000 · Community Improvement+3 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $230,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S C…NEW SUN RISING: $114,000 · Human ServicesNEW SUN RISIN…THE CENTER THAT CARES: $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER TH…CENTER OF LIFE: $75,000 · Human ServicesCENTER OF LIF…PITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS: $65,000 · Human ServicesPITTSBURGH CO…THE BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 · Human Services+5 more: $71,400 · Human Services+5 moreHOMEWOOD CHIDREN'S VILLAGE: $270,750 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PROMISE CENTER OF HOMEWOOD INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYD NELSON FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPOISE FOUNDATION: $45,000 · PhilanthropyAmani Christian Comm Dev Corp: $30,000 · PhilanthropyHOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BEAVER COUNTY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,880,300Education$1,027,056Housing & Shelter$760,000Community Improvement$713,750Human Services$660,400Youth Development$300,750Philanthropy$105,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $516,306 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $375,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA AFFORDABLE HSG CORP: $320,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetHOMEWOOD CHIDREN'S VILLAGE: $270,750 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $230,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLEVEL-EQUITY BUILDING INC: $225,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Greenwood Plan: $115,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetNEW SUN RISING: $114,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetOMICELO CARES INC: $105,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetOPERATION BETTER BLOCK INC: $87,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCatapult Greater Pittsburgh: $83,750 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetTHE KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE CENTER THAT CARES: $75,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER PITTSBURGH: $75,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMCKEES ROCKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetPROPEL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCENTER OF LIFE: $75,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS: $65,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetOAKLAND PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAssemble Inc: $45,750 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPOISE FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMILLVALE BOROUGH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $45,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetUJAMAA COLLECTIVE: $45,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetMount Washington Community Development Corporation: $40,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetGOODWILL OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Black Motivated Kings & Queen: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetHAZELWOOD INITIATIVE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAmani Christian Comm Dev Corp: $30,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetBREW HOUSE ARTS: $21,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetRADIANT HALL STUDIOS: $15,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE PROMISE CENTER OF HOMEWOOD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetHILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThree Rivers Business Alliance Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetTHE EARLY EXCELLENCE PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetREIMAGINE REENTRY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOYD NELSON FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 83% of budget25 CARRICK AVE PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH CONTINGENCY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAwaken Pittsburgh: $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHAW INC: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNorth Side Partnership Project: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHandmade Arcade: $15,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetFOOD21 OF PENNSYLVANIA: $15,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetINNOVATEPGH PARTNERSHIP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hillman Family Founda…The Pittsburgh Founda…The Heinz EndowmentsOpportunity FoundationPoise FoundationThe Grable FoundationRichard King Mellon F…Program to Aid Citize…McAuley MinistriesBridgeway Capital IncThe Buhl FoundationMcElhattan Foundation
Hillman Family FoundationsPA93.6× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Opportunity Foundation · Poise Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc · McAuley Ministries · Bridgeway Capital Inc · The Buhl Foundation · McElhattan Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Neighborhood Allies Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Neighborhood Allies Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 94 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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