Neighborhood Progress Inc
Cleveland, OH · EIN 34-1611055. Reported 90 grants totalling $10.0M to 47 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Neighborhood Progress Inc, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for community improvement (NTEE S120).
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 22% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 56% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $86,758. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $132,980; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $776,475. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burten Bell Carr Development Inc | Cleveland, OH | $2,184,870 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Famicos Foundation Inc | Cleveland, OH | $1,101,765 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northwest Neighborhoods Cdc | Cleveland, OH | $865,814 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Old Brooklyn Community Development Corp | Cleveland, OH | $572,454 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Slavic Village Development | Cleveland, OH | $552,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New Village Corporation | Cleveland, OH | $480,218 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Local Focal LLC | Cleveland, OH | $442,984 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nupoint Community Development Corporation | Cleveland, OH | $409,607 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Collinwood and Nottingham Village Development Corporation | Cleveland, OH | $387,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Midtown Cleveland | Cleveland, OH | $362,470 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Metro West Community Development Organization | Cleveland, OH | $349,394 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Tremont West Development Corporation | Cleveland, OH | $320,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Enterprise Community Partners Inc | Columbia, MD | $270,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ohio City Incorporated | Cleveland, OH | $262,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Chn Housing Partners | Cleveland, OH | $261,649 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Village Capital Corporation | Cleveland, OH | $218,655 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| City of Cleveland | Cleveland, OH | $121,167 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bellaire-Puritas Development Corp | Cleveland, OH | $104,286 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| West Park Kamms Neighborhood Development | Cleveland, OH | $101,894 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Harvard Community Services Center | Cleveland, OH | $86,025 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| East 66TH Street Services Inc | Cleveland, OH | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association | Cleveland, OH | $53,257 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Classic Cuisine Catering LLC | Cleveland, OH | $42,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cathys Cle 1 | Cleveland, OH | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greater Collinwood Development | Cleveland, OH | $33,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| South Hills Neighborhood Association | Cleveland, OH | $31,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cleveland Development Advisors Community Reinvestment Fund Inc | Cleveland, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Cleveland Food Hub | Cleveland, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jumpstart Inc | Cleveland, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Venture Forward Strategies | Cleveland, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Clair Superior Development Corporation | Cleveland, OH | $29,474 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Corporation for Supportive Housing | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Marvelish LLC-10312021 | Cleveland, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Council for Community Development Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Table for 2 LLC | Cleveland, OH | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Manufacturing Advocacy & Growth Network Inc | Cleveland, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Presidents Council Foundation Inc | Cleveland, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wake Robin Fermented Foods | Cleveland, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Your Refilling Station | Cleveland, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Little Italy 2000 Redevelopment Corporation | Cleveland, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fairfax Renaissance Development Corporation | Cleveland, OH | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing | Cleveland, OH | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Lawson Business | Cleveland, OH | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Blackhouse Inc LLC | Cleveland, OH | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fresh Style'z and Jewelry | Cleveland, OH | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| J Hearts Institute | Cleveland, OH | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Roaming Meals LLC | Cleveland, OH | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
19 of 47 (40%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Burten Bell Carr Development
Neighborhood Revitalization, Strategic Investment Initiative - Local Focal LLC
MIDDLE NEIGHBORHOODS INITIATIVE - Burten Bell Carr Development Inc
GBI- Neighborhood Revitalization; Strategic Investment Initiative - Operating; Kresge Climate Resiliency; KeyBank Neighborhood Revitalization; Neighborhood Solutions Award - Famicos Foundation
STRATEGIC INVESTMENT INITIATIVE; NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT; OMJ BUILT ENVIRONMENT - New Village Corporation
SHAKER SQUARE MARKETING, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT - Northwest Neighborhoods Cdc
STRATEGIC INVESTMENT INITIATIVE; NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 of 47 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 17 | $2,013,737 | $90,000 |
| 2021 | 27 | $2,855,622 | $51,224 |
| 2022 | 24 | $2,234,471 | $49,132 |
| 2023 | 22 | $2,913,253 | $98,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
97% of its giving went to organizations in Ohio. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $86,758 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Ohio.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Neighborhood Progress Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 11327 Shaker Boulevard 500W, Cleveland, OH, 44104.
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