Ohio · Nonprofit
NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC
NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,186,212 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($10,522,500). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Neighborhood Progress Inc does
Mission
Cleveland neighborhood progress is committed to advancing its mission of fostering communities of choice and opportunity. Our vision is for all of cleveland's neighborhoods to be attractive, vibrant communities where people from all incomes, races, and generations thrive, prosper, and choose to live, learn, work, invest, and play. Cleveland neighborhood progress works with a wide range of community stakeholders to strengthen neighborhoods throughout the city of cleveland. Together, we generate big ideas, advocate for them, fund them, and promote them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cleveland neighborhood progress (neighborhood progress) seeks to fulfill its mission through coordinated strategies defined in its 2022-2027 strategic plan. This begins with centering the advancement and resilience of cleveland's community development corporations (cdcs), then buttresses that support with technical expertise in equitable neighborhood revitalization, and city-wide marketing and advocacy.cdc advancement - cdc advancement provides technical, tactical, and operating support for cleveland's cdcs. Major programs within cdc advancement are as follows:-facilitated support with city of cleveland as the largest partner to cleveland cdcs, cdc advancement staff participate in numerous working groups with the city of cleveland to align program design, funding solutions, and technical assistance that supports cdcs.-relationship management designated cdc advancement staff focus on embedded relationship support to cdcs, provide strategic and team development capacities, troubleshoot technical challenges, provide responsive microgrant making, and facilitate two-way dialogue betweencdcs and cnp.strategic investment initiative (sii) - the sii program provides $1.5 million in…
$10,773,324 spentof which $7,015,183 as grants$8,068 earned by the program100% of program spendingEquitable neighborhood revitalization "enr" - the enr portfolio connects cdcs with technical assistance, training, and professional expertise in planning and open space, economic development, housing and real estate, sustainability, and workforce development. Major programs are as follows:neighborhood economic development training and professional development for cdc staff, microgrants to neighborhood small businesses, pilot demonstration projects for parklets, whitebox renovations, and marketing support facilitation with regional economic development partners through the business growth collaborative.planning and open space a focus on design and development processes that promote health, wellbeing, and happiness of cleveland residents through the creation of places and spaces that respond to community needs and encourage and sustain a positive quality of life.housing and real estate support building system wide real estate capacity and strategically implement housing development in buckeye, woodhill, and slavic village.sustainability through the circular cleveland initiative, support the grassroots climate resiliency activities of climate ambassadors and facilitate connections…
Advocacy and external relationsthe advocacy and external relations strategy covers the citywide marketing led by cnp (livecleveland), the support of neighborhood marketing capacity at cdcs through training and development, and the story telling about the community development industry that advances its priorities with policy makers and funders in cleveland and beyond.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,773,324.
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 $14M to $20M (+40%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 17% · 2021 59% · 2022 14% · 2023 100% · 2024 98% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC’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. 6 of the last 9 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
Tania Menesse
President & CEO
Board chair
Teresa Metcalf Beasley
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $3.3M.
6 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $20M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Cleveland Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 83% · 2019 73% · 2020 73% · 2021 78% · 2022 70% · 2023 42% — 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
10% of NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
92% of NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $276k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 PROGRESS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- Department of the Interior$75k
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 NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 9 related entities
- New Village Corporation · exempt
- Village Capital Corporation · exempt
- Slavic Village Recovery LLC · partnership
- Stl Housing LLC · partnership
- Sh Sq LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC?
- NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,186,212 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($10,522,500). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $16,186,212 in grants to NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC?
- THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,522,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS 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 40 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