Nelson Neighborhood Improvement Assoc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
381969959
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Muskegon, MI, USA
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Housing Development, Construction, Management

Reported finances

Revenue
$55,236
Expenses
$66,120
Assets
$9,705
Liabilities
$2,115

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEVE THOMPSON (President)
  • NICK KROES (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • STEVE THOMPSON (President)
  • NICK KROES (Vice President)
  • HOLLY LEMASTER (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The primary purpose of nnia is to assure the quality of life for our community, ensuring that nelson neighborhood is an inclusive, safe, welcoming, family-friendly place to build relations, get involved, and have a home. We take pride in the area's history, and our committees and organization actively participate in beautifying and improving our neighborhood and its surrounding, including the lakeshore and waterfront access areas falling in nelson neighborhood.

What it reported doing in 2025

Nnia garden committee has effectively managed and expanded four community gardens, including the love community garden, mike miller memorial garden, roger allison garden, and saturday breakfast garden. These gardens provide education programs, volunteer engagement, and partnerships with local organizations - becoming thriving spaces for residents to not only learn how to cultivate their produce, educate themselves about gardening while strengthening connections and collaboration between neighbors.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.4%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 71.3%; rating input score 71

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -19.7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 39.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -16% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -81.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.4% of revenue deployed · 71.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $47K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.