Missouri · Nonprofit
NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY
NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,986,557 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($922,362). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $390k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $987k
What Neighborhood Legal Support of Kansas City does
Mission
NLS performs legal work to allow blighted and abandoned urban core properties to be turned into good quality housing for low income families. We also assist and support the efforts of neighborhood organizations in the urban core area to address abandoned housing issues.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Prior to 2024, all of our work had been focused in the Lykins Neighborhood. In 2024, we had run out of blighted properties to pursue. Accordingly, in 2024, we expanded our work into two new neighborhoods. These include: the Dunbar Neighborhood and the Independence Plaza Neighborhood.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
For the last seven years, Neighborhood Legal Support of Kansas City has run a focused community development project in the Lykins Neighborhood in the Historic Northeast District of Kansas City. We have organized over 40 project partners to bring a wide array of resources to the neighborhood to remediate blight. Working with residents, police, City codes inspectors and numerous other partners, we identify blighted and abandoned homes in the neighborhood. We then bring litigation to either require the existing owners of the properties to convert them into good quality homes or to have a rehabber selected by the neighborhood do so. The entire process is focused on empowerment of the neighborhood residents. The residents, for example, chose the focus area and decide which rehabbers will be awarded which properties to develop. Neighborhood residents make all major project decisions. We see our role as empowering neighborhood residents, to the greatest extent possible, to implement their vision for community development in their neighborhood. The project has been successful. Some highlights of the project to date: We have acquired over 50 blighted properties in the neighborhood for…
$493,573 spentof which $88,441 as grants100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $493,573.
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 2018 to 2019, from $50k to $539k (+975%).
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: 2019 3% · 2020 12% · 2021 28% · 2022 11% · 2023 18% · 2024 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Gregg Lombardi
Executive Director
Board chair
Kathy Persley
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $59k → $667k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY’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
NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 68% · 2019 83% · 2020 36% · 2021 53% · 2022 63% · 2023 74% — 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 NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $267k 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
NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,546 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,546 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY?
- NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,986,557 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($922,362). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,986,557 in grants to NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY?
- THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $922,362 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing