Skip to content

Ohio · Nonprofit

Invest in Neighborhoods Inc

Invest in Neighborhoods Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,804 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($291,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$757k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$450k
Net assets
$122k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What Invest in Neighborhoods Inc does

Mission

To empower community councils and their resident members, volunteers, and related community organizations to contribute to civic live and advance the quality of life in Cincinnatis neighorboods, by increasing capacities and competencies, assisting with resources, and promoting civic engagement.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Fund Distribution - Annual Interest Grant Review reporting and distribute funds from the annual interest grant from the endowment held by the Greater Cincinnati Foundation.

    $35,570 spentof which $33,660 as grants$36,327 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  2. Neighborhood Support Program Management, including training and reporting, and distribution of annual City of Cincinnati grants for the Community Councils. Includes coordinating insurane for Community Councils.

    $543,277 spentof which $479,562 as grants
    74% of program spending
  3. Neighborhood Summit Community Engagement: annual gathering of Community Council members, City leaders and departments, community organizations and activists for training, information exchange, sharing work and networking.

    $20,750 spent$6,685 earned by the program
    3% of program spending
  4. Other community engagement activities

    $132,481 spent
    18% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $732,078.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($85k) Expenses 100 ($84k) Net assets 100 ($68k)2019 Revenue 170 ($145k) Expenses 203 ($171k) Net assets 80 ($54k)2020 Revenue 206 ($175k) Expenses 181 ($152k) Net assets 117 ($80k)2021 Revenue 184 ($157k) Expenses 171 ($143k) Net assets 132 ($90k)2022 Revenue 1854 ($1.6M) Expenses 1600 ($1.3M) Net assets 483 ($329k)2023 Revenue 807 ($688k) Expenses 1035 ($869k) Net assets 201 ($137k)2024 Revenue 661 ($563k) Expenses 728 ($612k) Net assets 162 ($110k)2025 Revenue 888 ($757k) Expenses 892 ($749k) Net assets 179 ($122k)
'17'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (888)Expenses (892)Net assets (179)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $92k to $329k (+260%).

$69k
$70k
$80k
$92k
$329k
$146k
$142k
$153k
'17'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 44% · 2022 96% · 2023 85% · 2024 86% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of Invest in Neighborhoods Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’17
−$25k
’19
$23k
’20
$13k
’21
$236k
’22
−$181k
’23
−$48k
’24
$8k
’25
2.4
months of
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.

Chief executive

Elizabeth Bartley

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20202022202320242025
Listed131113109
Joined··+5+3+3
No longer listed··364
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $54k → $66k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 Invest in Neighborhoods 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

Invest in Neighborhoods Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

67% 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 Invest in Neighborhoods Inc.

65%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 82% · 2019 48% · 2020 70% · 2021 78% · 2022 100% · 2023 55% — 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.

Where its funders are

65% of Invest in Neighborhoods Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $159k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.

OH

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $291k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Invest in Neighborhoods Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)31% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Invest in Neighborhoods Inc

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Invest in Neighborhoods Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Invest in Neighborhoods Inc?
Invest in Neighborhoods Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,804 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($291,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Invest in Neighborhoods Inc have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $449,804 in grants to Invest in Neighborhoods Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Invest in Neighborhoods Inc?
THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $291,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Invest in Neighborhoods 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.

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 6 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