California · Nonprofit
California Urban Partnership
California Urban Partnership (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,411,550 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($1,145,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $206k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $75k
What California Urban Partnership does
Mission
The California Urban Partnership's (CUP) mission is to build economic security in communities of color through policy research, education and organizing community action. We advocate for systems changes that increase investments to improve the health and wealth of California's most marginalized people and places.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The CUP served as a member organization in the California Jobs First, Sacramento Region planning phase and actively contributed to the High Roads Transition Collaborative by helping shape the regional Economic Plan focused on quality job creation, economic resilience, equity, and long-term sustainability. We participated in governance development, regional planning activities, stakeholder engagement, surveys, committee work, and strategic coordination with Valley Vision and Collaborative partners. CUP also supported key initiatives related to data and research, capacity building, community engagement, and sector-based economic strategies while identifying opportunities to align regional efforts with American Rescue Plan, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and other public and private funding resources. A major achievement included advancing equitable participation by ensuring under-resourced stakeholders had meaningful access to the planning process, influence over regional priorities, and pathways to benefit from future investments.
$128,309 spent100% of program spendingThe CUP served as a key member organization in the collaborative work of the Sacramento Racial Equity Alliance and community partners to advance the City of Sacramento's SCORE Work Plan through community engagement, policy advocacy, and accountability efforts. The CUP helped shape the City's racial equity resolution and produce community-informed recommendations for the SCORE framework. We facilitated public forums and listening sessions, and elevated priorities such as sustainable funding, transparency, equity, leadership development, and community wellness.
Led the design and planning of the ARIZE Initiative an innovative economic development and digital infrastructure strategy focused on expanding opportunity in historically disinvested communities. A major achievement of this work was the creation of the BOSS Fellowship (Brilliant Operatives to Serve and Succeed), a youth leadership and workforce development model designed to prepare young people for careers in business services, digital marketing, research, entrepreneurship, policy advocacy, and emerging technology. Through ARIZE and BOSS, CUP developed a community-centered blueprint for connecting youth leadership, small business growth, and equitable regional economic development.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $128,309.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $227k to $374k (+65%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of California Urban Partnership’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Malaki Amen
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $75k → $300k.
From the IRS filings of California Urban Partnership’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
California Urban Partnership leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 61% · 2019 95% · 2020 64% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of California Urban Partnership's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
California Urban Partnership runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like California Urban Partnership
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 California Urban Partnership: 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 California Urban Partnership?
- California Urban Partnership (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,411,550 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($1,145,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does California Urban Partnership have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,411,550 in grants to California Urban Partnership, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of California Urban Partnership?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $1,145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California Urban Partnership find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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