Michigan · Nonprofit
NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION
NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION (Michigan) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,268,910 to it, the largest being DETROIT AREA AGENCY ON AGING ($1,287,857). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Neighborhood Service Organization does
Mission
Nso is a detroit-based integrated health and human service agency that delivers community-based services and holistic programs for vulnerable populations. Nso provides behavioral health and primary care services, in addition to wrap-around services, for children, adults, and seniors that address barriers to housing, health, and wellbeing. Nso serves over 5,700 people annually in wayne and oakland counties, michigan. Founded in 1955, nso has a long history of being "always within reach" for neighbors who need it most in metropolitan detroit, including those experiencing homelessness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nso provides clinical services to wayne county residents at four different facilities. These services are a part of nso's mission to provide full wrap-around services to its clients.
$6,027,219 spent$4,568,186 earned by the program37% of program spendingLife choices provides support and a central access point for children and adults with developmental disabilities and their extended families. The life choices staff also advocate on behalf of individuals, secure resources, and provide intermittent lifelong support services so individuals may live as independently as possible.
$4,649,554 spent$3,524,017 earned by the program29% of program spendingNso provides supportive services to formerly homeless adults and crisis services for people in need. Specifically, the detroit healthy housing center and one of the homeless recovery services locations provide mental health service education, crisis intervention, and referral services for indivduals who are homeless or disenfranchised.
$5,600,668 spent$4,244,892 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,277,441.
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.
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 $22M to $28M (+28%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 16% · 2020 14% · 2021 22% · 2022 26% · 2023 45% · 2024 44% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $397k → $344k.
8 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $1.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Nso Properties). These are real filings, and they are not money NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 SERVICE ORGANIZATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 SERVICE ORGANIZATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 63% · 2019 65% · 2020 38% · 2021 34% · 2022 49% · 2023 36% — 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
35% of NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
73% of NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $26.2M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$18.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$8.0M
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 SERVICE ORGANIZATION
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 6 related entities
- Nso Bell Housing Master Tenant LLC · disregarded
- Nso Properties · exempt
- Nso Bell Housing Limited Dividend Housing Association Limited Partnership · partnership
- The Sanctuary Limited Dividend Housing Association LLC · partnership
- Nso Bell Housing Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION?
- NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION (Michigan) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,268,910 to it, the largest being DETROIT AREA AGENCY ON AGING ($1,287,857). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $6,268,910 in grants to NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION?
- DETROIT AREA AGENCY ON AGING is the largest funder on record, with $1,287,857 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 38 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