· Public charity
National Urban League Inc
The urban league is a nonpartisan, civil rights and community-based movement that serves over two million people each year, providing direct services, research, and policy advocacy to help individuals and communities reach their fullest potential.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k101 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k91 grants · $12M
- $250k+61 grants · $41M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URBAN LEAGUE OF WESTCHESTER | $2,607,866 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY | $2,451,800 |
| DETROIT URBAN LEAGUE | $2,158,114 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC | $2,109,130 |
| PINELLAS COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC | $1,990,344 |
| LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE | $1,662,017 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER ATLANTA | $1,275,104 |
| INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE | $1,252,455 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $1,245,771 |
| CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE | $1,102,217 |
| MARTINDALE BRIGHTWOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP | $1,055,000 |
| HOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE | $874,520 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS | $807,527 |
| AUSTIN AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC | $774,068 |
| BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE | $752,456 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $151.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
144 repeat relationships: 128 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 124 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +49% · 35% of their budget
- PCPinellas County Urban League Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +46% · 29% of their budget
- TLTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +165% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- PRPATHWAY RESOURCE CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -38% · 31% of their budget
- ULUrban League of the Greater San Francisco Bay Areagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $225k · revenue +64%
- PCPROACT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS INCone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +119%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Madison county urban league, inc. provides direct services in housing, employment, and education, to improve the quality of life for disadvantaged people.
Your columbus urban league is a trusted, community-driven organization. we create opportunity and access for all people through economic, educational, and social progress.
The mission of the Urban Leadership Foundation of Colorado is to invest in the development of minority leaders, empower them to serve in the interest of community, and leverage all resources to address the racial, economic, education,…
Urban Neighborhood Initiatives, Inc. (UNI) engages in comprehensive action to address human and community development. Individuals and families are enthused as they prosper and become encouraged to invest in their homes and communities.
To enable African Americans and other underserved urban residents to secure economic self-reliance parity power and civil rights.
To enable african americans and people in need to reach their full human potential
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
To improve education youth development health and wellness in African American communities throughout the State of Arkansas
Urban league of greater southwestern ohio, inc. is on a mission to end generational poverty through advocacy and by empowering individuals to establish careers, become entrepreneurs, build wealth, and develop as leaders.
To assist African Americans, other ethnic minorities and economically disadvantaged individuals and families in the achievement of social equity and economic independence.
To reduce urban persistent poverty.
To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.
How this is measured
176 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 176 of the 597 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization National Urban League Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Urban League Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Baltimore Urban League Inc: 100% of income from government
- Urban League of Greater Springfield Inc: 81% of income from government
- Urban League of Hudson County Inc: 71% of income from government
- Pinellas County Urban League Inc: 69% of income from government
- Urban League of Broward County Inc: 44% of income from government
- Urban League of Portland Inc: 33% of income from government
- Urban League of Union County: 22% of income from government
- Urban League of Essex County: 20% of income from government
- Urban League of Greater Hartford Inc: 8% of income from government
- Tallahassee Urban League Incorporated: 7% of income from government
- Jacksonville Urban League Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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