Ohio · Nonprofit
AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC
AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,854,083 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($329,476). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Akron Community Service Center & Urban League Inc does
Mission
To improve the quality of life for the citizens of summit county, particularly african americans, by advocating and facilitating programs that are economically and educationally transformational, impacting their lives and the lives of future generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Workforce development: our highly reputable and proven employment center offers career counseling, employment training, effective resume writing instruction, employment leads and referrals, interview skill tips, and employer visits. Geared towards 18 and older individuals in the county.
$1,024,224 spent40% of program spendingInvesting in children: youth, ages 13 to 24, participate in academic tutoring, job readiness training, resume building, interview practice, overcoming obstacles to employment and on-the-job training. Children between the ages of 5 to 12 spend june to august enjoying educational activities, arts and crafts, physical education, field trips, and free lunch
$380,685 spent15% of program spendingThe minority business assistance center (mbac) akron, operated by the akron urban league, provides free services to minority, women, and disadvantaged businesses across nine northeast ohio counties. The program offers technical assistance, support with certifications, access to capital and bonding, and guidance on procurement opportunities to help entrepreneurs grow, create jobs, and strengthen the local economy.
$1,026,462 spent40% of program spendingSchool's in/scholarship program - ged preparation and job readiness and support program for young adults age 16 to 21. The main goals of the program are to obtain a ged, secure employment and remove barriers. The participants will also gain understanding of life skills. For students who have completed high school we offer 40 plus scholarships every year.
$137,132 spentof which $67,500 as grants5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,568,503.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $4.7M to $6.4M (+36%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 60% · 2018 60% · 2019 53% · 2020 36% · 2021 49% · 2022 27% · 2023 51% · 2024 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $9k → $388k.
4 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.1M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
32% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2019 58% · 2020 31% · 2021 30% · 2022 24% · 2023 28% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
53% of AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
64% of AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $421k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Justice$956k
- Department of Labor$680k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC?
- AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,854,083 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($329,476). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,854,083 in grants to AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $329,476 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 40 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing