Michigan · Nonprofit
NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK
NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,236,619 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($750,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Neighborhoods Inc of Battle Creek does
Mission
The mission of neighborhoods inc. Is to promote stable, healthy homes and neighborhoods by providing services and educational programs focused on low to moderate income families in the greater battle creek area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Home rehabilitation for low-income and disabled home owners.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Development and rental - full or partial rehabilitation of homes which are then sold or rented to homeowners. Home rehabilitation for low-income and disabled homeowners.
$561,419 spent$440,264 earned by the program97% of program spendingEducation services - to provide education opportunities to the community to help first-time home buyers as well as classes on financial fitness to prepare consumers for homeownership and other long-term goals.
$13,496 spent$2,565 earned by the program2% of program spendingRevolving loans & loan pool - allows organization to provide loans and other purchasing assistance to lower income buyers of rehabilitated property.
$4,540 spent$46,580 earned by the program1% of program spendingNeighborhood organizing - provides funds for special neighborhood improvement projects to build pride and cooperation and to help the neighborhoods with resident training and community organizing.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $579,455.
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 2017 to 2018, from $4.8M to $4.2M (−12%).
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 18% · 2018 7% · 2019 4% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 78% · 2023 84% · 2024 68% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Whitney Wardell
CEO
Board chair
Debra Lynn Gray
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $502k → $54k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK’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
NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 75% · 2022 78% · 2023 47% — 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.
Where its funders are
83% of NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k 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
NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK has grown faster than half of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$115k
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 NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK
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
22% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK?
- NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,236,619 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($750,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,236,619 in grants to NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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