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The Neighborhood Developers Inc

The mission of the neighborhood developers, inc (tnd) is to create strong neighborhoods enabling community members to secure a stable home, achieve economic mobility, and determine their own future.

$1.0M
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$84k
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 2023.

Housing & Shelter$493kEmployment$411kHealth$243kInternational$170kHuman Services$93kCommunity Improvement$84kEnvironment$81kEducation$43kOther$0
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $276,347, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,015,425 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $739,078 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 · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $265k
$62,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA COLABORATIVA$83,997
WOMEN ENCOURAGING EMPOWERMENT INC$67,250
MACIR INC$62,500
REVERE COMMUNITY SCHOOL$51,600
LAS PACERITAS$11,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $274k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LA COLABORATIVA: $97k → 16%LA COLABORATIVA: $84k → 16%LA COLABORATIVA: $53k → 16%LA COLABORATIVA: $40k → 16%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 9 repeat orgs$212k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +185% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$1.5M
$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+185%
+20%

Still filing today

78%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Community ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • LA COLABORATIVA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $274k · revenue +524%
  • MB
    METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON
    4× · 2017–2021 · $220k · revenue +175%
  • II
    INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $157k · revenue +305%

Funded once

  • OPPORTUNITY COMMUNITIES LLCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $74k · revenue +29%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INTER-CITY IN
    one grant, 2022 · $41k · revenue +20%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
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
New England Community Project Inc

Necp believes that social change happens when those most impacted by issues of systemic injustice, organize at the block level to address issues within their neighborhoods. through their involvement at a community level, residents engage…

Community Improvement
2
Browning the Green Space Inc

We seek to facilitate a just energy transition by putting black and brown communities first, and enabling systems change at the intersection of social, environmental, and economic justice. we are powering a just energy transition in the…

Environment
3
Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts

Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…

Youth Development
4
Revive in Action Inc

We exist to empower marginalized, low-income, and underserved communities through transformative experiences that inspire economic growth, educational excellence, and community engagement.

Religion
5
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
6
We Are Alx Inc

We are alx is a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening economic mobility, leadership representation, and long-term prosperity across massachusetts by advancing latino entrepreneurship, workforce participation, civic…

Community Improvement
7
Chile Massachusetts Alliance Inc

Chilemass connects institutions across chile and massachusetts to advance education, innovation, and economic development. through stategic partnerships, programs, and convenings, the organization designs and implements initiatives that…

International
8
Urban League of Eastern Masschusetts Inc

The mission of the urban league of eastern massachusetts is to enable adults in eastern ma to overcome racial, social barriers, economic inequities, sexual and domestic violence to employment and economic development opportunities. for…

Human Services
9
Mi Casa Resource Center

Advancing economic prosperity of the latino community.

Human Services
10
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
11
The Osborne Association Inc

The association's purpose is to provide services to defendants, incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated people and their families: to provide alternatives to incarceration; to provide job training and job placement; to provide reentry…

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12
Alliance for Metropolitan Stability

The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenroots Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Kresge 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $242,514 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDREVERE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $113,753 · OtherREVERE COMMUNITY SCHOOLCOMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INTER-CITY IN: $41,250 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INTER-CITY INUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $20,000 · OtherGREENROOTS INC: $81,250 · OtherGREENROOTS INC+7 more: $76,965 · Other+7 moreLA COLABORATIVA INC: $273,910 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA IN…METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON: $220,372 · Housing & ShelterMETROPOLITAN B…INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $157,074 · Civil RightsINTERNATIO…THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC: $76,721 · Community ImprovementTHE SOMERV…OPPORTUNITY COMMUNITIES LLC: $74,200 · Community ImprovementOPPORTUNIT…WOMEN ENCOURAGING EMPOWERMENT INC: $148,539 · EducationWOMEN ENCO…MACIR Inc: $144,501 · Arts & CultureMACIR Inc
Other$575,732Human Services$273,910Housing & Shelter$220,372Civil Rights$157,074Community Improvement$150,921Education$148,539Arts & Culture$144,501

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC: $273,910 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON: $220,372 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $157,074 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMACIR Inc: $144,501 over 4y, 63% of budgetGREENROOTS INC: $81,250 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC: $76,721 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY COMMUNITIES LLC: $74,200 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INTER-CITY IN: $41,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROCA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KRESGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $5,415 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

United Way Of Massach…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…
United Way Of Massachusetts Bay IncMA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank 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 The Neighborhood Developers Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Neighborhood Developers Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Community Action Programs Inter-City in: 18% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Somerville Community Corporation Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 19 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $831k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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