North Carolina · Nonprofit
Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance
Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,637,905 to it, the largest being Wells Fargo Foundation ($1,275,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance does
Mission
Founded in 2016, Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance (LNA) is a Community I.M.P.A.C.T. (Individuals Making Progress and Change Together) Organization. Our mission is to Engage the residents of Lakeview, Educate them on opportunities and connect them to resources, while advocating for Lakeviews growth and Empowerment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Economic Mobility:Lakeviews Hierarchy of needs begins with the Lakeview Community and their physiological and safety needs with things like food, shelter, and personal security. Having these needs met, fi rst, is the pathway to love & belonging, esteem, and self-actualization taking place. Utilizing the Universal Basic Income model, we have put into place a program to help meet those essential needs, empowering the residents of Lakeview to educate themselves and engage in the solution-oriented problem solving centered around LNAs 4 Areas of Programming: Child & Family Stability, Prevention of Displacement, Economic Mobility, and Civic Awareness. The Gift Card Program is the core short term solution that lays the groundwork for the strategic long term plan.Residents are eligible for gift cards if they engage with Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance activities and attend a certain number of Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance events over the course of the year. In FY 23, LNA served 156 community residents through the gift card program. Residents received $100 per event/activity over the course of the year. The Merancas grant received in 2023 funded this program and also helped to complete a…
$375,309 spent41% of program spendingCommunity Quarterback:Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance (LNA) is a community organization based in the Lakeview neighborhood of Charlotte, NC. Our mission is to engage community members, educate them on opportunities and connect them to resources, while advocating for Lakeviews growth and empowerment. We aim to cultivate strong community leadership, develop youth, family, and senior citizen programming, and create a safe and beautiful environment for residents to thrive and position themselves for upward mobility. LNA serves as a community quarterback organization that also works to coordinate services and programs for the benefit of Lakeview residents. We accomplish this through our core program areas: Child and Family Stability Prevention of Displacement Economic Mobility Civic Awareness and Cultural Responsibility Support Student Academic Success (Youth) By engaging residents and building partnerships with local organizations, LNA works to address critical needs like housing, food security, and educational opportunities. LNA promotes community connection and empowerment through events, programs, and services to improve resident wellbeing.In FY 2024, LNA provided 3,862 services and…
$260,924 spent28% of program spendingYouth: Support Student Academic Growth- Future Orientation/Future Readiness- Community Focused/Civic & Cultural Responsibility- Social Emotional Development (Focus: Self-Regulation)Goals: Utilizing a cross-curriculum model, LNA Youth programming will promote youth who are able to -Develop and utilize research skills to acquire further knowledge and information surrounding areas of interest pertaining to Lakeview (their cultural group)- Seek out and obtain historical context surrounding challenges, problems, and issues that affect them, their family, and Lakeview- Expand their community, knowledge, and understanding through collaborative efforts that are inclusive of their peers and adults of the Lakeview community- Think critically, are resourceful, and contribute positively to solving problems in a culturally responsible and sustainable way.
$247,428 spent27% of program spendingZone Captain/Peer Learning:The Peer Learning Program addresses challenges discovered via data obtained from our residents. 15 residents receive mentoring to develop leadership skills to be utilized in their careers and community. The curriculum focuses on Organizational Problem Solving, broken into 6 components: Awareness, Information Gathering, Analysis, Vision/Plan, Taking Action, Evaluate/Reflect.
$33,500 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $917,161.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $432k to $942k (+118%).
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.
100% of Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Dennis Williams
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $20k → $769k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance’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
Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 81% · 2021 68% · 2022 56% · 2023 40% — 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
75% of Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 70% 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
62% of Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $377k 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.
Against its field
Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance?
- Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,637,905 to it, the largest being Wells Fargo Foundation ($1,275,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $4,637,905 in grants to Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance?
- Wells Fargo Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 10 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