Delaware · Nonprofit
NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS
NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS (Delaware) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,509,784 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Neighborgood Partners does
Mission
To strengthen communities through housing, lending, and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Loan fund: Neighborgood Partners is certified by the treasury department as a community development financial institution (cdfi) and as such has a loan fund which lends primarily to nonprofit borrowers on the delmarva peninsula for the purposes of affordable housing, community facilities and economic development. Loan purposes are typically predevelopment, acquisition, and/or construction for single-family and multi-family housing, neighborhood revitalization and community-based facilities, as well as working capital. Loans are underwritten by staff and approved by the loan fund committee of the board. Neighborgood Partners, as a short-term lender, seeks investments and loan participations for capital to lend. Activity included 20 new loans, totaling $14.2 million with 63 loans being serviced overall.
$2,148,412 spent$141,948 earned by the program39% of program spendingSelf-help housing technical and management assistance: Neighborgood Partners provides technical and management assistance (t&ma) to local self-help housing grantees in a 21 state region of the northeast and north central areas of the united states through a contract with usda's rural housing service. Staff training, quarterly review meetings, newsletters, application preparation and reviews, progress monitoring, problem solving, and other support is provided to self-help housing grantees to build or repair 50-75 homes a year using participant family sweat equity. Families are low and very low income typically using the rd 502 mortgage program for building materials and the families provide the labor. Neighborgood Partners acts as an intermediary providing the support services to the grantees who in turn oversee and assist the participating families in building their homes. Activity included management and technical support to 12 self-help housing grantees and 35 houses were built.
$763,566 spent$81,271 earned by the program14% of program spendingRestoring central dover: restoring central dover is a comprehensive neighborhood revitalization plan that is led by Neighborgood Partners and a steering committee and based from resident input and priorities that have been derived from a community survey, meetings, events, activities, and community outreach. The work involves addressing issues around the areas of housing, safety, economic development, and community engagement.
$607,218 spent$1,098 earned by the program11% of program spendingReal estate development services: technical assistance to locally based nonprofit housing corporations on the delmarva peninsula for the development and preservation of affordable apartments. Services include packaging financing applications and assistance throughout the development process. 164 units with several apartment projects are in process. Opened the neighborgood center in dover, de. Also, 7 for sale homes were under construction and 3 were completed and sold in downtown dover, de. Foreclosure prevention counseling: counseling and education services, assist households experiencing financial hardships or unaffordable mortgages in delaware to avoid or resolve impending home foreclosure through workshops, individual counseling, loan modifications and access to federal and state programs. Activity included assisting 201 clients with counseling services and 80 households achieving positive resolution. Stand by me: financial coaching was provided to 1,1358 households at venues such as public housing, community colleges, and employers' workplaces. Activity included 487 new clients and 1,981 appointments held. Restoring central dover; ninth year of implementation of the…
$2,038,702 spentof which $9,000 as grants$195,926 earned by the program37% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,557,898.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $47M to $54M (+15%).
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: 2020 68% · 2021 59% · 2022 72% · 2023 76% · 2024 57% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Karen Speakman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $923k → $984k.
3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 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
NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 61% · 2019 46% · 2020 39% · 2021 53% · 2022 68% · 2023 58% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 191 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 191 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.3M on record — $15.3M federal, $3.0M state.
- Department of Agriculture$9.7M
- Department of the Treasury$5.6M
- FED GRANT SUB RECIPIENT$2.5M
- GRANTS$290k
- GRANTS IN AID$266k
- CONSULTANTS$775
- STUDENT BODY ACTIVITY$304
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 NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS
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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 2 related entities
- Hearn Ownership LLC · disregarded
- Neighborgood Social Enterprise · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS?
- NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS (Delaware) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,509,784 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $13,509,784 in grants to NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 21 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