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Urban Action Partners Inc Fka Neighborhood Works Inc at a glance

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Urban Action Partners Inc Fka Neighborhood Works Inc

Urban action partners, inc.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Community Improvement$1.7MEducation$535kHealth$459kFood & Nutrition$167kReligion$36kHousing & Shelter$21kEmployment$10kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,700
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSIONS MINDSET INC$25,700
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MISSIONS MINDSET INC: $26k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $209k → 16%JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE: $10k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY: $10k → 14%LIBERTY CHAPEL INC: $21k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $144k → 16%WEDEVELOPMENT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION: $929k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $106k → 16%WEB DUBOIS LEARNING CENTER: $154k → 15%WEDEVELOPMENT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION: $140k → 15%WEB DUBOIS LEARNING CENTER: $101k → 15%WEB DUBOIS LEARNING CENTER: $100k → 15%WEB DUBOIS LEARNING CENTER: $90k → 15%WEB DUBOIS LEARNING CENTER: $53k → 15%WEDEVELOPMENT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION: $50k → 15%WEDEVELOPMENT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION: $44k → 15%WEDEVELOPMENT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION: $39k → 15%WEB DUBOIS LEARNING CENTER: $25k → 15%DUAL CREDIT CONSULTATION SERVICES: $12k → 15%DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 15%GENERATING INCOME FOR TOMORROW: $122k → 15%PROSPECT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $240k → 15%GENERATING INCOME FOR TOMORROW: $58k → 15%M2M COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $167k → 15%GENERATING INCOME FOR TOMORROW: $20k → 15%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 4 repeat orgs$565k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +352% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$2.4M
$540k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+352%
+33%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHealthPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WD
    WEB DUBOIS LEARNING CENTER
    6× · 2018–2024 · $523k · revenue +352% · 45% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $459k · revenue +51%
  • GI
    GENERATING INCOME FOR TOMORROW
    3× · 2020–2022 · $200k · revenue +417%

Funded once

  • PB
    Prospect Business Association
    one grant, 2021 · $240k · revenue -11% · 32% of their budget
  • NV
    Nile Valley Aquaponics
    one grant, 2018 · $167k · revenue -68% · 61% of their budget
  • WF
    WEDEVELOPMENT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
    one grant, 2018 · $70k
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
Full Employment Council Inc

The full employment council is a business-led, private, nonprofit corporation whose mission is to obtain public and private sector employment for the unemployed and underemployed residents of the greater kansas city area.

Crime & Legal
2
Junior Achievement of Middle America Inc

Junior achievement accelerates economic opportunity and mobility for youth through cross-sector collaboration to deliver innovative solutions that improve educational and economic outcomes for students.

International
3
Kansas Insurance & Financial Services Education Foundation
Education
4
Ku Center for Technology Commercialization Inc

Kuctc is organized to facilitate and support the research and technology transfer operations of the university of kansas and its affiliated tax-exempt research corporations or other tax exempt organizations qualified under section…

Education
5
Urban League of Kansas City Mo

To enable African Americans and other disadvantaged persons to secure economic self reliance, parity, power and civil rights.

Human Services
6
Missouri College and Career Attainment Network

The missouri college and career attainment network (mocan) exists to ensure missouri students who could most benefit from education beyond high school have what they need to earn a credential leading to a rewarding career.

Education
7
Kansas City Kansas Area Chamber of Commerce Inc

Promotion & advancement of the city of kansas city, kansas and wyandotte county, kansas areas

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8
Kansas City Metropolitan Library and Information Network

The kansas city metropolitan library and information network develops, coordinates, promotes and shares information resources and facilitates professional development.

Education
9
Great Jobs Kc Inc

The mission of great jobs kc is to provide access to college scholarships and tuition-free job training along with job placement assistance to secure family-sustaining jobs for low- to modest-income individuals in the kansas city area.

Education
10
Mo Kan 2020 Vision Inc

The mission of 20/20 leadership is to provide high school students unique experiential learning opportunities to expand their education beyond the classroom, develop resilient leaders, and build stronger communities.

Youth Development
11
Kc Digital Drive Inc

Kc digital drive's (kcdd) mission is to make kansas city a digital leader to secure our economic prosperity and improve the quality of life for all people in the region.

Human Services
12
Small Business Empowerment Center

The Small Business Empowerment Center (SBEC) is uniquely qualified to assist small businesses in the distressed areas of St. Louis County and St. Louis City. For 15 years the SBEC has worked in the Empowerment Zone (EZ) to help residents…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Della Lamb Community Services; the most unlike its peers is Nile Valley Aquaponics. 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

8 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. 8 of the 13 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEDEVELOPMENT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION: $1,201,195 · OtherWEDEVELOPMENT FEDERAL CREDIT UNIONWEB DUBOIS LEARNING CENTER: $522,762 · OtherWEB DUBOIS LEARNING CENTERNile Valley Aquaponics: $166,500 · OtherNile Valley AquaponicsWEDEVELOPMENT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION: $70,000 · Other+4 more: $66,700 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $459,262 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF KAN…Prospect Business Association: $240,000 · Public BenefitProspect …GENERATING INCOME FOR TOMORROW: $200,000 · Community ImprovementDUAL CREDIT CONSULTATION SERVICES: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentDELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,027,157Health$459,262Public Benefit$240,000Community Improvement$200,000Youth Development$12,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEB DUBOIS LEARNING CENTER: $522,762 over 6y, 45% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $459,262 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetProspect Business Association: $240,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetGENERATING INCOME FOR TOMORROW: $200,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetNile Valley Aquaponics: $166,500 over 1y, 61% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Ewing Marion Kauffman…Greater Kansas City C…Health Forward Founda…United Way of Greater…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Ewing Marion Kauffman FoundationMO15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Urban Action Partners Inc Fka Neighborhood Works Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Urban Action Partners Inc Fka Neighborhood Works Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    How do I get to Urban Action Partners Inc Fka Neighborhood Works Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Urban Action Partners Inc Fka Neighborhood Works Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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