New York · Nonprofit
BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC
BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,051,260 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($750,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $586k
What Blackspace Urbanist Collective Inc does
Mission
BlackSpace's mission is to bridge gaps between people, place, and power to realize racial justice with Black communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We facilitate opportunities for Black urbanists to co-create social and spatial change (and get imaginative) in partnership with Black communities through the following three pillars of work: Neighborhood Strategy: Co-design projects that acknowledge, affirm and amplify Black presence. Customized Learning: Deliver workshops to share methods of centering Black culture and people within place-based development. Community: Build the capacities of Black urbanists to craft restorative & inspiring urbanist experiences, integrate traditional design and urban planning through published content, and transform their urbanist practice through Manifesto-based projects.
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$175,000 spent30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $585,266.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $251k to $670k (+167%).
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: 2021 98% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income fell $335k → $246k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 48% · 2022 33% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
82% of BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $176k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE 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 BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC?
- BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,051,260 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($750,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,051,260 in grants to BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACKSPACE URBANIST COLLECTIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 15 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