Michigan · Nonprofit
NEW CITY NEIGHBORS
NEW CITY NEIGHBORS (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,110,672 to it, the largest being THE SHINE FOUNDATION ($270,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $809k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $808k
What New City Neighbors does
Mission
New City Neighbors is a faith based community development organization in the creston neighborhood of grand rapids that empowers 1st -12th grade youth to reach their full potential through holistic programs and long-term opportunities. Our programs include hosting community events and a social enterprise farm and cafe. Each of these programs employ and provide leadership opportunities for high school youth in our community, and our farm and cafe additionally meet food accessibility needs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
New city urban farm is a three site four acre vegetable farm that creates jobs and leadership opportunities for students throughout the year. It also feeds 250 families by selling produce at our farm stand, in our community sustained agriculture farm, and through local food pantries.
$276,653 spent$164,907 earned by the program55% of program spendingNew city cafe is run by students during the summer and they sell soups, salads, wood-fired pizzas, and baked goods to our neighborhood. High school staff make the soups, salads, and pizzas using produce grown on our urban farm. We operate the cafe on thursday afternoons, may - november. Youth are empowered to lead this pop-up restaurant, gaining job skills and leadership experience.
$166,707 spent$79,907 earned by the program33% of program spendingCommunity development we host a variety of community events that help to connect and educate our community. These events include gardening and cooking classes, panel discussions on important issues, and community gathering events like an ice cream social or fall festival.
$56,096 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $499,456.
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 2019 to 2020, from $131k to $625k (+377%).
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 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 17% · 2022 6% · 2023 12% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of NEW CITY NEIGHBORS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Ricardo Tavarez
Executive director
Board chair
Lindsey Tipton
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $18k → $127k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 NEW CITY NEIGHBORS’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
NEW CITY NEIGHBORS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
52% 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 NEW CITY NEIGHBORS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 53% · 2019 100% · 2020 39% · 2021 48% · 2022 40% · 2023 32% — 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
44% of NEW CITY NEIGHBORS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
98% of NEW CITY NEIGHBORS's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $399k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
NEW CITY NEIGHBORS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding NEW CITY NEIGHBORS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$25k
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 NEW CITY NEIGHBORS
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW CITY NEIGHBORS?
- NEW CITY NEIGHBORS (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,110,672 to it, the largest being THE SHINE FOUNDATION ($270,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW CITY NEIGHBORS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,110,672 in grants to NEW CITY NEIGHBORS, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW CITY NEIGHBORS?
- THE SHINE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $270,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW CITY NEIGHBORS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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