Ohio · Public charity
Neighborhood Progress Inc
Cleveland neighborhood progress is committed to advancing its mission of fostering communities of choice and opportunity. Our vision is for all of cleveland's neighborhoods to be attractive, vibrant communities where people from all incomes, races, and generations thrive, prosper, and choose to live, learn, work, invest, and play.…
- $7.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $6.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $97,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,818,954
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Neighborhood Progress Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $774k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $6.7M | 44% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $2.9M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $2.2M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $2.9M | 37% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $2.0M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $2.2M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $2.6M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $2.8M | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Village Corporation | $4,525,917 | 9 | 53% |
| Burten Bell Carr Development Inc | $4,499,320 | 9 | 19% |
| Famicos Foundation | $2,301,498 | 9 | 6% |
| Northwest Neighborhoods CDC | $2,038,824 | 9 | 13% |
| Slavic Village Development | $1,446,499 | 9 | 9% |
| Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation | $1,217,640 | 9 | 15% |
| Ohio City Incorporated | $890,165 | 8 | 15% |
| Collinwood and Nottingham Village Development Corp | $828,051 | 6 | 20% |
| Chn Housing Partners | $793,207 | 2 | 0% |
| Tremont West Development Corp | $750,947 | 9 | 16% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Village Corporation | $4,525,917 | 9 | 53% |
| Burten Bell Carr Development Inc | $4,499,320 | 9 | 19% |
| Famicos Foundation | $2,301,498 | 9 | 6% |
| Northwest Neighborhoods CDC | $2,038,824 | 9 | 13% |
| Slavic Village Development | $1,446,499 | 9 | 9% |
| Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation | $1,217,640 | 9 | 15% |
| Ohio City Incorporated | $890,165 | 8 | 15% |
| Collinwood and Nottingham Village Development Corp | $828,051 | 6 | 20% |
| Chn Housing Partners | $793,207 | 2 | 0% |
| Tremont West Development Corp | $750,947 | 9 | 16% |
| Union Miles Development Corporation | $732,860 | 6 | 14% |
| Metro West Community Development Organization | $659,538 | 7 | 9% |
| Midtown Cleveland Inc | $626,413 | 8 | 7% |
| Enterprise Community Partners Inc | $559,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Northeast Shores Development | $460,500 | 3 | 55% |
| St Clair Superior Development Corporation | $451,974 | 6 | 41% |
| Local Focal LLC | $442,984 | 1 | n/a |
| Jefferson-Puritas West Park CDC | $410,340 | 4 | 11% |
| Village Capital Corporation | $399,005 | 5 | 12% |
| Harvard Community Services Center | $340,964 | 4 | 14% |
| West Park Kamm's Neighborhood Development | $276,507 | 5 | 16% |
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers | $169,018 | 2 | 2% |
| University Circle Incorporated | $132,500 | 3 | 1% |
| City of Cleveland | $121,167 | 1 | n/a |
| Little Italy Redevelopment Corp | $108,130 | 2 | 73% |
| Stl Housing LLC | $65,000 | 2 | n/a |
| East 66th Street Services Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 1% |
| 701 E 185th St LLC | $52,000 | 1 | n/a |
| In Our Backyards Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Placer Labs | $44,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Classic Cuisine Catering LLC | $42,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Cathys CLE 1 | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Campus District Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Watson Community Health Centre | $37,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Anexus Media Enterprises Inc | $34,664 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Collinwood Development | $33,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Slg Assets-Grant 0507 | $33,259 | 1 | n/a |
| South Hills Neighborhood Association | $31,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cleveland Development Advisors Community Reinvestment Fund Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Jumpstart Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Venture Forward Strategies | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cleveland Food Hub | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 740 East 185th Street LLC | $28,901 | 1 | n/a |
| East End Neighborhood House Association | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Council for Community Development Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Marvelish LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Corporation for Supportive Housing | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hwa Alliance of Cpa Firms Inc | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Philomena Bakery LLC | $15,695 | 1 | n/a |
| Haynes Firestone | $15,493 | 1 | n/a |
| Ironbound Community Corporation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hoertz Realty | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Clevelanddraw | $12,425 | 1 | n/a |
| Fairfax Renaissance Development | $12,338 | 2 | 0% |
| Table for 2 LLC | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bike Cleveland | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Manufacturing Advocacy & Growth Network Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Your Refilling Station | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Presidents Council Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Downtown Cleveland Alliance | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wake Robin Fermented Foods | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Szj Group LLC | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mount Pleasant Now Development Corporation | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Educare Medical Staffing | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Newton Gravity Marketing | $6,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ohio Awning & Manufacturing | $5,702 | 1 | n/a |
| Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Lawson Business Group Ltd | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland | $5,100 | 1 | 0% |
| J Hearts Institute | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Roaming Meals LLC | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Blackhouse Inc LLC | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Neighborhood Progress Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The McGregor Foundation · East 66th Street Services Inc · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · Ohio Community Development Finance Fund · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation
How this is measured
About Neighborhood Progress Inc
- How much does Neighborhood Progress Inc give?
- Neighborhood Progress Inc reported 34 itemized grants totaling $6,650,642, out of $7,015,183 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Neighborhood Progress Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (72%), Housing & Shelter (17%), Environment (6%).
- Who are Neighborhood Progress Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Village Corporation ($4.5M), Burten Bell Carr Development Inc ($4.5M), Famicos Foundation ($2.3M).
- Does Neighborhood Progress Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Neighborhood Progress Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The McGregor Foundation.
- Where is Neighborhood Progress Inc based?
- Neighborhood Progress Inc is based in OH.
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