About Neighborhood Development Center
Strengthening neighborhood economies from within — one entrepreneur at a time. We provide tools and resources to help local entrepreneurs start, grow and sustain businesses that revitalize neighborhoods.
Focus Areas
Small business developmentEntrepreneur trainingMicroloans and lendingReal estate for small businesses / incubatorsCapacity building for disadvantaged entrepreneursEmergency relief for entrepreneurs
Who They Fund
local small businesses/merchantscultural organizations and arts venuesdowntown/main-street communitiesartists and cultural entrepreneurs
Funding Style
About Neighborhood Development Center
Neighborhood Development Center Inc. uses grantmaking to strengthen neighborhood economies through local entrepreneurs, with a visible emphasis on cultural malls, pass-through support, and place-based business stabilization. Two $300,000 grants in 2023 went to Mercado Central LLC in Minneapolis and Hmong Village Inc in St. Paul under a cultural mall grant, showing how the foundation backs commercial spaces that serve as neighborhood anchors. More recent awards continue that pattern of supporting small businesses and community-serving enterprises, including Jwp Automotive LLC in St. Paul, Family Beauty Supply in Minneapolis, and Tu Dance in St. Paul. The organization’s stated approach centers on giving local entrepreneurs tools and resources to start, grow, and sustain businesses that revitalize neighborhoods. Its recent grant list also includes merchants, health-related service providers, logistics firms, restaurants, and cultural organizations, suggesting a broad view of neighborhood development that extends across commercial, cultural, and service-based enterprises. Across the record provided, the foundation’s giving is local and concentrated entirely in Minnesota.
What Neighborhood Development Center Funds
Neighborhood Development Center Inc. supports small business development through direct, place-based grants. In 2024, it gave $85,000 to Groceries and Nepali Kitchen Inc in Maplewood under a pass-through grant, and in 2025 it awarded $50,000 to Jwp Automotive LLC in Saint Paul under the same grant type. The foundation also funds cultural and arts infrastructure: Tu Dance in Saint Paul received $42,500 in 2025, fitting its beneficiary types that include cultural organizations and arts venues. Real estate and incubator support is another theme in the program list, with services tied to real estate financing, development support, and business incubator space in Saint Paul, Minneapolis, and the Twin Cities. Its active Small Business Innovation Grant program also shows interest in software businesses working on employee engagement, workplace culture, and turnover reduction.
How Neighborhood Development Center Gives
Typical awards are tightly clustered: the 25th percentile is $10,000, the median is $10,000, and the 75th percentile is $15,000. The recent-grants record also shows a second tier of much larger place-based awards, including $300,000 cultural mall grants. The pattern suggests a mix of standard smaller business-support grants and occasional larger project grants. The foundation’s grantmaking appears repeated over multiple years, with awards recorded in 2023, 2024, and 2025. It operates as a local grantmaker rather than a national one, and it also makes loans through business-loan programs while not making program-related investments. Several active programs accept unsolicited requests, including Small Business Innovation Grant, Real Estate Services, Business Loans, and Credit Up!
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$2.4M
Total Assets
$43.2M
Total Revenue
$14.2M
Total Expenses
$12M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $15K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$15K
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
RENAY DOSSMAN
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