Ohio · Nonprofit
BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC
BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC (Ohio) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,322,989 to it, the largest being NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC ($4,499,320). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Burten Bell Carr Development Inc does
Mission
Bbc's mission is to empower citizens, and revitalize blighted and underserved communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Created for neighborhood planning and community revitalization activities in ward 5 of the city of cleveland. In 30 years of existence, bbc primarily focused its efforts on neighborhood planning and restoring the residential fabric of the community by facilitating a variety of housing projects and supportive services in the central community. We evolved into a full service community development corporation serving the central and lower kinsman neighborhoods. Additional neighborhoods that we now support. Buckeye-shaker square and buckeye-woodland neighborhoods.
$3,460,806 spent100% of program spendingIn 30 years we have seen indicators, such as low foreclosure rates, purposeful re-use of large tracts of desolate land and the successful rental of retail spaces within once infamous crime-infested areas, demonstrates our effectiveness at charting the path of neighborhood recovery within the most challenged neighborhoods of cleveland. With such proven success we are poised to cultivate a new thriving neighborhood.
Bbc is comprised of a dynamic staff of seventeen highly dedicated and accomplished community development practitioners. Joy johnson, the executive director since may 2020, joined the organization in 2002. Ms. Johnson continues to ensure that the knowledge and expertise of bbc projects and programs remain consistent and sustainable. Fourteen staff members serve in a full-time capacity, eight (8) of which have earned a master's degree in public administration, planning and development, architecture, or social work. Full-time staff members have been with the organization for an average of five years and have been working in the community development field for more than 10 years on average. Bbcs three social enterprises employs additional individuals, all of whom were unemployed community residents prior to working for bbc subsidiaries.
During the 2021 fiscal year, bbc continued to rise to the challenges associated with the covid-19 global pandemic. The board and staff remain vigilant to support the residents, businesses, and community stakeholders to navigate these tumultuous times. We worked closely with partners to leverage resources to provide over 4,000 community residents with weekly dinners, fresh produce, and personal protective equipment. Bbc also provided residents with rental support, groceries for households, and support with utility bills. We supported 19 business with rental or mortgage assistance and technical assistance to ensure they remain viable in our community. We completed the financing for colfax family homes, 36 single-family homes that will create low- to moderate-income housing options in the kinsman neighborhood. These homes will change the landscape of the street and community as we implement our neighborhood master plan. Other key programs and services include: "boxspot small business venture "health & wellness education for youth & adults home repair assistance "programs focusing on the arts "retail development "housing development & occupancy "greenspace development and maintenance…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,460,806.
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 2020 to 2021, from $12M to $22M (+77%).
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: 2017 9% · 2018 32% · 2019 28% · 2020 21% · 2021 23% · 2022 31% · 2023 35% · 2024 45% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $1.9M → $1.8M.
4 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 37% · 2019 49% · 2020 36% · 2021 37% · 2022 49% · 2023 33% — 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
52% of BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
97% of BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Small Business Administration$1.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$800k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Bridgeport Place LLC · disregarded
- East Central Townhomes · disregarded
- East Cedar Apartments · disregarded
- Arbor Parl Place LLC · disregarded
- Colfax Family Homes LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC?
- BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC (Ohio) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,322,989 to it, the largest being NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC ($4,499,320). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $12,322,989 in grants to BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC?
- NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,499,320 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 29 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing