New York · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES
CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES (New York) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,356,539 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($14,235,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $104M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Center for Urban Community Services does
Mission
To create comprehensive, effective housing and service programs for homeless and low-income people, particularly those suffering from serious mental illness, hiv/aids, and other disabling conditions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Supportive housing services: in 2025 cucs provided essential support services to over 5,000 formerly homeless and low income individuals and families, allowing them to remain stably housed and work toward self-sufficiency. Services include customized case management, crisis intervention, linkage to health, mental health and substance use services and other services designed to increase independence. Of the individuals and families served, 95% remain stably housed.
$31,193,634 spent$89,002 earned by the program34% of program spendingOutreach and transitional services: in 2025 cucs' street to home program placed more than 275 chronically homeless people living on the streets or in public spaces into housing. Cucs' three transitional housing programs work with homeless individuals with mental illness from all over the city to stabilize their conditions and provide them with the services they need to move into permanent, affordable housing. In 2024 cucs' transitional programs helped more than 275 mentally ill, homeless adults move into permanent housing.
$56,648,559 spent$5,016 earned by the program61% of program spendingTraining and technical assistance: cucs offers training in more than 50 different areas of service delivery and in 2025 trained more than 15,000 direct service staff from more than 350 organizations throughout new york city. Cucs also provides consulting services in program development and evaluation, community planning to end homelessness, implementing evidence-based practices, and strategic planning.
$3,822,113 spent$446,163 earned by the program4% of program spendingProject for psychiatric outreach for homeless services
$132,751 spent0% of program spendingVocational services
$871,467 spent1% of program spendingResearch
$310,947 spent0% of program spendingManagement fees
$718,546 earned by the program
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $92,979,471.
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 2021 to 2022, from $79M to $117M (+48%).
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 74% · 2018 83% · 2019 89% · 2020 90% · 2021 91% · 2022 91% · 2023 93% · 2024 95% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (9% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Alex Rose
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $935k → $2.2M.
11 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 66% · 2019 78% · 2020 85% · 2021 65% · 2022 80% · 2023 83% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
94% of CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES'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. $605k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES has grown faster than half of the 24 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 24 community improvement nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$10.1M
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 CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- Cucs Initiatives Inc · exempt
- Janian Medical Care PC · exempt
- Cucs Housing Development Fund Corporation II · exempt
- Cucs Housing Development Fund Corporation III · exempt
- Cucs Housing Development Fund Corporation IV · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES (New York) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,356,539 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($14,235,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $20,356,539 in grants to CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 42 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