Ohio · Nonprofit
KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE
KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $861,500 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($372,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $396k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $862k
- Net assets
- $766k
What Kenmore Neighborhood Alliance does
Mission
To build a better kenmore through cultural, recreational and business revitalization, embracing our history, celebrating our creativity and improving our historic business district.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Amplify akron's music row through marketing, events and local artists: better kenmore hosted a series of placemaking events including four first friday festivals with live music, vendors, food trucks, and a kids zone; a boo on the boulevard halloween event with trick-or-treating, a haunted theater, and a costume contest; a light the blvd holiday event with live holiday music, santa claus, and kids activities with hot chocolate and cookies; and a solar eclipse watch party. All these events are completely free.
$29,135 spent$20,183 earned by the program15% of program spendingIgnite neighborhood-friendly investment acquiring and developing property,and attracting (and matching) businesses and residents to spaces and resources: the retail corridor vacancy rate has dropped by double digits since inception. Thanks to recruitment efforts and incentives, female and minority-owned small businesses more closely match the neighborhood's demographic. Better kenmore also provides resources and training opportunities for these small businesses. Further, the organization has restored two vacant/blighted buildings and is currently restoring a third for mixed-use.
$107,321 spent55% of program spendingCreate spaces that sing through signage, public art and "safe and clean"efforts that magnify what's good about the neighborhood: pedestrian and bike paths and wayfinding signage have been installed. In conjunction with volunteers, we tend to hundreds of native ohio flowers and plants in the boulevard medians, and have trash clean up events. A creative placemaking plan has been recently developed to complement the public art murals better kenmore has already completed. A quarterly community safety meeting provides a platform for community members to voice their concerns. In 2024, we installed historic district welcome signs and wayfinding signs from the newly constructed summit lake hike & bike trail connector of the ohio erie & canalway towpath trail to the boulevard historic district.
$29,135 spent15% of program spendingEngage the community around critical issues: we successfully lobbied akronpublic schools to rebuild miller south and pfeiffer elementary on the site of the former kenmore high school building, just one block north of theboulevard, a construction project valued at 62,000,000. Enrollment is expected to begin in fall 2027.
$29,135 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $194,726.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $541k to $750k (+39%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 32% · 2020 35% · 2021 35% · 2022 75% · 2023 56% · 2024 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Josh Gippin
Exec. Dir.,
Board chair
John Zoilo
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $137k → $32k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 funders by total. 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
KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 54% · 2019 84% · 2020 84% · 2021 68% · 2022 100% · 2023 81% — 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
17% of KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 18% 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
KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $373k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 1 related entity
- Better Kenmore LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE: 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.
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 KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE?
- KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $861,500 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($372,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $861,500 in grants to KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE?
- AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $372,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENMORE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 11 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