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The New York Urban League Inc

The league's mission is to enable african americans and underserved communities to secure a first-class education, economic self-reliance, and equal respect of their civil rights through programs, services, and advocacy in our highly diversified city.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$2.2MArts & Culture$1.3MHuman Services$450kEmployment$345kCrime & Legal$280kHealth$206kEducation$200kYouth Development$193kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 30 grants below total $1,120,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,206,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $86,250 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE$45,000
COMMUNITY CONNECTION FOR YOUTH$45,000
CUSTOM COLLABORATIVE$45,000
GOOD CALL NYC CO$45,000
DRIVE CHANGE$45,000
67TH PRECINCT CLERGY COUNCIL INC$45,000
HARLEM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC$45,000
HARVEST HOME FARMER'S MARKET INC$45,000
OPUS DANCE THEATRE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES$45,000
YOU GOTTA BELIEVE$45,000
LIFE OF HOPE$45,000
WARM INC$45,000
HIP HOP THEATER FESTIVAL DBA HI ARTS THEATER$45,000
STEM FROM DANCE INC$45,000
NARRATIVE NATION INC$45,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $809k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LONG ISLAND NUL: $30k → 6%BUFFALO NUL: $40k → 13%ROCHESTER NUL: $30k → 14%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $45k → 20%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $45k → 20%NOT ON MY WATCH INC: $35k → 28%NOT ON MY WATCH INC: $35k → 28%HAITI CULTURAL EXCHANGE: $19k → 20%WARM INC: $45k → 17%DESTINATION TOMORROW INC: $45k → 28%THE BROTHERS REDEFINING OPPORTUNITY EXPERIENCE: $35k → 20%THE ALEX HOUSE PROJECT: $45k → 20%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $45k → 20%GRIOT CIRCLE INC: $45k → 20%WE ARE NOT AFRAID: $35k → 17%GRIOT CIRCLE: $40k → 20%LIFE OF HOPE: $45k → 20%LIFE OF HOPE: $35k → 20%LIFE OF HOPE: $35k → 20%LIFE OF HOPE: $19k → 20%WARM INC: $35k → 17%WARM INC: $26k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 30 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
54

Total granted

$2.9M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+20%

Still filing today

93%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEmploymentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • 6P
    67TH PRECINCT CLERGY COUNCIL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $179k · revenue +156%
  • BB
    BARBERSHOP BOOKS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $151k · revenue +340%
  • LO
    LIFE OF HOPE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $134k · revenue ×24

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NEW YORK URBAN LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $507k · revenue -19%
  • EL
    EMERGING LEADERS IN TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING INC
    one grant, 2020 · $185k
  • MB
    MIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +41%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Harlem Arts Foundation

The Harlem Art''s Foundation''s Mission Is To Showcase And Preserve Harlem''s Tradition Of Rich Culture And Community By Working With Our Local Partners To Strategically Shape The Physical And Social Opportunities Of Our Neighborhood…

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2
King Hoops United

Empower the youth of new york city through basketball, providing them with academic enrichment, career development, and a strong sense of community to unlock their full potential

Youth Development
3
Arts & Business Council of New York Inc

The Arts & Business Council of New York stimulates partnerships between the arts and business that strengthen both sectors in the communities they serve. This is accomplished through programs that promote voluntarism, build arts management…

Arts & Culture
4
Nia Theatrical Production Company Inc

Nia theatrical production company inc. is dedicatedto educating young artist and bringing arts program to underserved communities in nyc.

Arts & Culture
5
Parity Productions Inc
Arts & Culture
6
Project Performing Arts Inc

Provide high quality low cost performing arts classes to underserved children in Harlem and the surrounding neigborhoods.

Arts & Culture
7
Minority Millennials

Assist young PEOPLE OF COLOR to access jobs & become civically engaged

Human Services
8
The Unsung Nyc Inc the Unsung Collective

The Unsung Collective serves the New York City community through music and music education experiences for people of color.

Arts & Culture
9
Urban Youth Alliance Internationalinc

To encompass a faith community based program that offers alternatives to detention, incarceration by connecting court-involved youth with positive resources in the local community. Provide supportive community services to justice-involved…

Education
10
Lgbt Center Intercultural Collective Inc

Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo is a social organization, which works on the empowerment of human rights, access and comprehensive health care of TransGNB people, strengthening the social and cultural expression of diverse gender…

Civil Rights
11
New York Foundation
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12
New York African Chorus Ensemble Inc

The New York African Chorus Ensemble, Inc. (NYACE) strengthens New York Citys cultural life by using the arts to build bridges of understanding among diverse communities. Through performances, cultural programs, and community initiatives,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young New Yorkers Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Noel Pointer Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 97 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/86
Grantees still filing
53/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NEW YORK URBAN LEAGUE INC: $507,000 · OtherTHE NEW YORK URBAN LEAGUE INCEMERGING LEADERS IN TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING INC: $185,242 · OtherEMERGING LEADERS IN TECHNOLOGY AND ENGI…BRONX BAPTIST CHURCH: $116,250 · OtherBRONX BAPTIST CHURCHKIDS CREATIVE 404 INC: $80,000 · OtherFULL CIRCLE LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER: $96,250 · OtherMONITOR MY HEALTH INC: $85,000 · OtherA BETTER JAMAICA INC: $75,000 · Other+29 more: $844,563 · Other+29 moreOPUS DANCE THEATRE & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $124,295 · Arts & CultureOPUS DANCE THEATRE & COM…GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE: $115,624 · Arts & CultureGIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTEAFRICAN FILM FESTIVALINC: $99,427 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN FILM FESTIVALINCTHE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $96,250 · Arts & CultureTHE ACTORS THEATRE WORKS…THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED…HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS: $90,000 · Arts & CultureHIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL…STEM FROM DANCE INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureSTEM FROM DANCE INCThe Harlem Chamber Players Inc: $80,000 · Arts & CultureThe Harlem Chamber Playe…THE BROOKLYN STEPPERS INC: $70,970 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN STEPPERS IN…MIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureCUMBE CENTER FOR AFRICAN AND DIASPORA DANCE INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureBILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureOpening Act Inc: $45,000 · Arts & CultureDRAMA CLUB INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureART START INC: $42,236 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $141,075 · Arts & Culture+5 moreLIFE OF HOPE: $134,122 · Human ServicesLIFE OF HOPEWARM INC dba We All Really Matter: $106,250 · Human ServicesWARM INC dba We…YOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesYOU GOTTA BELIE…GRIOT CIRCLE INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesGRIOT CIRCLE IN…NOT ON MY WATCH INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesNOT ON MY WATCH…DESTINATION TOMORROW INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesDESTINATION TOM…COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HELP …Alex House Project Inc: $45,000 · Human ServicesAlex House Proj…BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesThe Reciprocity Foundation: $35,000 · Human ServicesWE ARE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesUrban League of Long Island Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC: $30,000 · Human Services+1 more: $19,125 · Human Services67TH PRECINCT CLERGY COUNCIL: $178,849 · Community Improvement67TH PRECINC…STATEN ISLAND URBAN CENTER INC: $112,000 · Community ImprovementSTATEN ISLAN…FCBC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $62,000 · Community ImprovementFCBC COMMUNI…HARLEM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 · Community ImprovementHARLEM BUSIN…NEW YORK WOMEN'S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $45,000 · Community ImprovementNEW YORK WOM…Arts Business Collaborative: $41,210 · Community ImprovementArts Busines…STRYCKER'S BAY NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL INC: $35,000 · Community ImprovementSTRYCKER'S B…BRIDGE STREET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $35,000 · Community ImprovementBRIDGE STREE…East New York Restoration Local Development Corp: $31,000 · Community ImprovementOCEAN BAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $25,370 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC: $116,250 · Crime & LegalGood Call NYC: $90,000 · Crime & LegalYOUNG NEW YORKERS INC: $84,196 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN OF PROMISE NYC: $45,000 · Crime & LegalThe Brothers Redefining Opportunity Experience FDN Inc: $35,000 · Crime & LegalNETWORK SUPPORT SERVICES INCORPORATED: $35,000 · Crime & LegalCUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC: $116,250 · EmploymentPATH TO JOBS INC (FKA PEER TRAINING INC/PTI): $61,250 · EmploymentDRIVE CHANGE INC: $45,000 · EmploymentYouth Design Center Inc: $45,000 · EmploymentCommunity Voices Heard Inc: $44,875 · EmploymentWALL STREET BOUND INC: $32,534 · EmploymentBARBERSHOP BOOKS INC: $151,250 · EducationBEDFORD STUYVESANT GATEWAY DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $95,650 · EducationAfrican Voices Communications Inc: $26,250 · EducationEMPOWERMENT ZONE INC: $24,752 · EducationFLANBWAYAN HAITIAN LITERACY PROJECT INC: $22,500 · Education
Other$1,989,305Arts & Culture$1,254,877Human Services$809,497Community Improvement$610,429Crime & Legal$405,446Employment$344,909Education$320,402

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NEW YORK URBAN LEAGUE INC: $507,000 over 1y, 13% of budget67TH PRECINCT CLERGY COUNCIL: $178,849 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBARBERSHOP BOOKS INC: $151,250 over 4y, 15% of budgetLIFE OF HOPE: $134,122 over 4y, 21% of budgetOPUS DANCE THEATRE & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $124,295 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC: $116,250 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC: $116,250 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetGIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE: $115,624 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetSTATEN ISLAND URBAN CENTER INC: $112,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetWARM INC dba We All Really Matter: $106,250 over 3y, 15% of budgetAFRICAN FILM FESTIVALINC: $99,427 over 3y, 16% of budgetTHE ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $96,250 over 3y, 11% of budgetFULL CIRCLE LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER: $96,250 over 3y, 69% of budgetBEDFORD STUYVESANT GATEWAY DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $95,650 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetGood Call NYC: $90,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC: $90,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC: $90,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS: $90,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetMONITOR MY HEALTH INC: $85,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetGRIOT CIRCLE INC: $85,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetYOUNG NEW YORKERS INC: $84,196 over 2y, 13% of budgetSTEM FROM DANCE INC: $80,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetThe Harlem Chamber Players Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetKIDS CREATIVE 404 INC: $80,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetA BETTER JAMAICA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetNOT ON MY WATCH INC: $70,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetHARLEM JUNIOR TENNIS AND EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $62,804 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFCBC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $62,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetPATH TO JOBS INC (FKA PEER TRAINING INC/PTI): $61,250 over 2y, 23% of budgetMIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC: $45,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDESTINATION TOMORROW INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUnited Methodist Center in Far Rockaway Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCUMBE CENTER FOR AFRICAN AND DIASPORA DANCE INC: $45,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $45,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE INC: $45,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARLEM INC: $45,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHILDREN OF PROMISE NYC: $45,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDRIVE CHANGE INC: $45,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NOEL POINTER FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHARLEM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetOpening Act Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNARRATIVE NATION INC: $45,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetDRAMA CLUB INC: $45,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHARVEST HOME FARMER'S MARKET INC: $45,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetAlex House Project Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetYouth Design Center Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF BROOKLYN CDC INC: $45,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
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.

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.

Brooklyn Community Fo…Pinkerton FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…Robin Hood FoundationThe Howard Gilman Fou…Lily Auchincloss Foun…New York Women's Foun…West Harlem Developme…Youth Improving Non-P…The Pierre & Tana Mat…The New York Communit…The Ford Foundation
Brooklyn Community FoundationNY66.6× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Brooklyn Community Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · West Harlem Development Corporation · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The New York Urban League Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The New York Urban League Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 36%
  • Monitor My Health Inc: 36% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 97 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.1M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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