Neighborhood Allies Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251578436
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4124713727
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,425,764
- Expenses
- $6,069,112
- Assets
- $17,630,875
- Liabilities
- $288,111
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PRESLEY GILLESPIE (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- PRESLEY GILLESPIE (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $302,991 total reported compensation
- STEPHANIE MILLER (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $203,662 total reported compensation
- JONATHAN BRELSFORD (TREASURER): $201,351 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to engage pittsburgh area residents and organizations with innovative tools that expand opportunity for transformative community change.
What it reported doing in 2025
Real estate accelerator: the goal of this program is to revitalize neighborhoods by co-creating real estate solutions that are resident focused and impact affordable housing, small businesses, and placemaking efforts. Through this program we provide capital, technical assistance, capacity building, and connections with experienced real-estate professionals who can assist with strategy, coordination, mentorship and coaching. The accelerator supports community-based organizations, resident developers, and small business owners to advance community ownership and economic mobility in communities that have experienced systemic disinvestment, while cultivating a strong pipeline of investable, community-led projects.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.7%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 78.8%; rating input score 79; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.91; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.7% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $303K · 15 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $643K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 21 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 18 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.