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Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation

URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION envisions a city without poverty by educating kids, strengthening their families, and building healthy communities.

$337k
Granted FY2021
32
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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 2021.

Food & Nutrition$135kReligion$95kYouth Development$80kArts & Culture$55kHealth$40kHuman Services$40kCommunity Improvement$30kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0
02FY2021 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $160,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $336,605 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $176,605 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.
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMFORT CARE HOMES LLC$5,000
NEXT LEVEL WIRELESS$5,000
TAQUERIA VICTOR HUGO #1$5,000
LA IDEAL BAKERY LLC$5,000
ANAS HOME HEALTH CARE$5,000
WAFFLEOUS LLC$5,000
AMLA INTERNATIONAL TRANSLATIONS LLC$5,000
NOVEDADES MIS DELIRIOS LLC$5,000
MI CASA MEXICAN KITCHEN$5,000
RENATOS RESTAURANT INC$5,000
MINNEAPOLIS SENIOR CENTER INC$5,000
J & B$5,000
LOS PORTALES RESTAURANT$5,000
LA TORTILLA CATERING LLC$5,000
DARYEL HOME CARE INC$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LA TORTILLA CATERING LLC: $5k → 11%DALCAR FOODS: $5k → 11%NURKAY LLC: $5k → 11%S & S CATERING: $5k → 11%FLAMINGO RESTAURANT LLC: $5k → 11%LOS VAQUEROS DE CHIHUAHUA BOOTS INC: $5k → 11%MAGALI'S: $5k → 11%DEL PRIMO INC: $5k → 11%BOTANICA NOVEDADES CHELY'S: $5k → 11%NOVEDADES DOS HERMANOS: $5k → 11%KILIMANJARO ENTERPRISE: $5k → 11%JOYERIA JELLY LLC: $5k → 11%MIRANDAMULTISERVICES LLC: $5k → 11%DARYEL HOME CARE INC: $5k → 11%COSMOPOLITAN BUSINESS SOLUTION: $5k → 11%WAFFLEOUS LLC: $5k → 11%FUENTE DE SODAS VIKKY: $5k → 11%DIN AUTO BODY: $5k → 11%JOYAS DAELY LLC: $5k → 11%GARCIAS AUTOMOTIVE: $5k → 11%JOYERIA NUPSIAS MODAS ELLAS: $5k → 11%LOS PORTALES RESTAURANT: $5k → 11%LA IDEAL BAKERY LLC: $5k → 11%ANAS HOME HEALTH CARE: $5k → 11%LAS OLEAS WESTERN WEAR: $5k → 11%NICHOLAS ZIMET LAC ACUPUNCTURE: $5k → 11%J & B: $5k → 11%MI SEGURO AGENCY LLC: $5k → 11%TAQUERIA LA HACIENDA 2 INC: $5k → 11%A AND J FISH AND CHICKEN INC: $5k → 11%M'S HAIR STUDIO: $5k → 11%LUX TRANSPORTATION INC: $5k → 11%COMFORT CARE HOMES LLC: $5k → 11%NOVEDADES KRYSTAL: $5k → 11%APEX DENTAL SYSTEMS DBA MINNESOTA DENTAL CARE: $5k → 11%NEXT LEVEL WIRELESS: $5k → 11%RUBY'S BOUTIQUE & GIFT SHOP LLC: $5k → 11%PRO MAINTENANCE CO SERVICES LLC: $5k → 11%IMPACT INSURANCE AGENCY INC: $5k → 11%LAS CHAROLAS: $5k → 11%EL NORTENO WESTERN 33: $5k → 11%AMLA INTERNATIONAL TRANSLATIONS LLC: $5k → 11%DUKE'S CARS AND TOWING LLC: $5k → 11%GOOD GROCER: $5k → 11%MUNDO ENVIOS INC: $5k → 11%CAFETERIA LAS TAPATIAS: $5k → 11%EL REY CAR AUDIO: $5k → 11%FONDITA LA POTRA LLC: $5k → 11%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.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$80k · 8 repeat orgs$465k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
67

Total granted

$80k
$345k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • RR
    RENATOS RESTAURANT INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k
  • AJ
    A & J FISH ND CHICKEN INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k
  • PT
    PINEDA TACOS PLUS LLC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k

Funded once

  • II
    IMPACT INSURANCE AGENCY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • JN
    JOYERIA NUPSIAS MODAS ELLAS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • J
    JNTECHREPAIR
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2021.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2020 to 2021, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 99 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+99 more: $545,000 · Other+99 more
Other$545,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Lake Street Council
Lake Street CouncilMN77.1× affinity37 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.
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How do I get to Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation 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 99 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 2021, released 2021. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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