Neighborhood Progress Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
341611055
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Cleveland, OH, USA
Phone
2168302770
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$10,788,517
Expenses
$11,300,656
Assets
$13,722,061
Liabilities
$11,130,461

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

29 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TANIA MENESSE (PRESIDENT & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • TANIA MENESSE (PRESIDENT & CEO): $250,070 total reported compensation
  • JEFFREY VERESPEJ (CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER): $183,010 total reported compensation
  • STOCKHAUSEN EDWARD (SR VP OF ADVOCACY & EXTERNAL RELATIONS): $136,908 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Cleveland neighborhood progress is committed to advancing its mission of fostering communities of choice and opportunity. Our vision is for all of cleveland's neighborhoods to be attractive, vibrant communities where people from all incomes, races, and generations thrive, prosper, and choose to live, learn, work, invest, and play. Cleveland neighborhood progress works with a wide range of community stakeholders to strengthen neighborhoods throughout the city of cleveland. Together, we generate big ideas, advocate for them, fund them, and promote them.

What it reported doing in 2024

Cleveland neighborhood progress (neighborhood progress) seeks to fulfill its mission through coordinated strategies defined in its 2022-2027 strategic plan. This begins with centering the advancement and resilience of cleveland's community development corporations (cdcs), then buttresses that support with technical expertise in equitable neighborhood revitalization, and city-wide marketing and advocacy.cdc advancement - cdc advancement provides technical, tactical, and operating support for cleveland's cdcs. Major programs within cdc advancement are as follows:-facilitated support with city of cleveland as the largest partner to cleveland cdcs, cdc advancement staff participate in numerous working groups with the city of cleveland to align program design, funding solutions, and technical assistance that supports cdcs.-relationship management designated cdc advancement staff focus on embedded relationship support to cdcs, provide strategic and team development capacities, troubleshoot technical challenges, provide responsive microgrant making, and facilitate two-way dialogue betweencdcs and cnp.strategic investment initiative (sii) - the sii program provides $1.5 million in operating support to cleveland cdcs. Cdc advancement staff provides grant management and monitoring for all sii grants.shared services - cdc advancement staff oversees programs and projects that assist cdcs' productivity and impact in cleveland's neighborhoods (i.e.: cdc training, workgroups, clean&green cleveland).cdc industry alignment - cdc advancement staff helps to facilitate discussion and decisions related to collaboration and highest impact through strategic alliances and mergers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 96% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 65% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 80
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.9%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: $49.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 94.8%; rating input score 95; 24th 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.21; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.81; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.4%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99.9% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $10.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $250K · 29 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 39 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 43 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.