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· Public charity

Urban Revival Inc

Ethnic/racial harmony through affordable housing & economic development.

$186k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$47k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Community Improvement$449kCivil Rights$321kPhilanthropy$284kHuman Services$80kHousing & Shelter$70kHealth$40kYouth Development$25kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $109,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $185,650 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $76,650 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $102k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIDES FOUNDATION$47,000
BROCKTON WORKER ALLIANCE$30,000
NEW ENGLAND COMMUNITY PROJECT$25,000
MASS PUBLIC HEALTH ALLIANCE$7,000
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 (FY22–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BROCKTON WORKER ALLIANCE: $30k → 8%BROCKTON WORKER ALLIANCE: $30k → 8%CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 16%NEW ENGLAND COMMUNITY PROJECT: $25k → 8%CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP IN: $10k → 16%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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$394k · 5 repeat orgs$625k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$394k
$593k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $199k · revenue -22%
  • AF
    ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $63k · revenue +210%
  • BW
    BROCKTON WORKERS ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $397k · revenue +30%
  • RT
    RIGHT TO THE CITY BOSTON
    one grant, 2022 · $70k
  • SN
    SPRINGFIELD NO ONE LEAVES
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
2
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
3
Boston Ujima Project Inc

The boston ujima project, inc is a black led, democratic, member-run organization building a cooperative business, arts and investment ecosystem in boston, with a mission to return wealth to working class communities of color. ujima is…

Community Improvement
4
Massachusetts Regional Employment Board Association

The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.

Employment
5
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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6
Center for Community Change Action

The center for community change action builds the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change the policies and institutions that impact their lives.(mission statement continued on schedule…

Public Benefit
7
Livable Streets Transportation Alliance of Boston Inc

We advocate for just and inclusive policies, processes, and public spaces that ensure all people have safe and accessible mobility and housing options.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
The Massachusetts Association for Community Action Inc

To strengthen and connect the statewide network of community action agencies and collectively advocate for an end to poverty.

Civil Rights
9
Urban Guild Inc

The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in bostons urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and…

Community Improvement
10
Brazilian Worker Center Inc

A grassroots, community organization that supports immigrants on issues of workplace rights and immigration. we work with the community, instructing them to execute their rights through organizing, advocacy, education, leadership, capacity…

Human Services
11
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
12
Communities Resist Inc

We join our clients in the struggle to organize, assert their rights and protect their homes. we work to ensure that community voices are centered in the decisions that impact their lives and neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Labor United Inc; the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Public Health Association. 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC: $396,719 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INCALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $62,500 · Community ImprovementALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONM…TIDES FOUNDATION: $283,699 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $198,500 · Civil RightsRIGHT TO THE CITY AL…COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC: $42,500 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY LABOR UNIT…RIGHT TO THE CITY BOSTON: $70,000 · OtherRIGHT TO THE …SPRINGFIELD NO ONE LEAVES: $50,000 · OtherSPRINGFIELD N…NEW ENGLAND UNITED FOR JUSTICE: $20,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND U…RESIST INC: $14,000 · OtherRESIST INCBROCKTON WORKERS ALLIANCE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesBROCKTON W…CHINESE PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL ACTION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCHINESE PR…NEW ENGLAND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesNEW ENGLAN…ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMER…CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $32,500 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · Health
Community Improvement$459,219Philanthropy$283,699Civil Rights$241,000Other$154,000Human Services$125,000Health$39,500

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 budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC: $396,719 over 1y, 12% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $283,699 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $198,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $62,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetBROCKTON WORKERS ALLIANCE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $32,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL ACTION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRESIST INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Boston Foundation IncBarr FoundationThe Hyams Foundation …Resist IncThird Sector New Engl…Eastern Bank Foundati…Amalgamated Charitabl…The Access Strategies…Massachusetts Budget …Haymarket People's Fu…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …
Boston Foundation IncMA18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · The Hyams Foundation Inc · Resist Inc · Third Sector New England Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Access Strategies Fund · Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc · Haymarket People's Fund Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Revival Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Urban Revival Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Asian American Resource Workshop Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Community Labor United Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Urban Revival Inc?

Find your warmest path to Urban Revival 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 15 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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