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CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES

CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES (New York) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,162,057 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($14,235,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$104M
Revenue FY2025
40
Funders on record
$20M
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
21/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%

Against its field

CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES has grown faster than half of the 22 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22 community improvement nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($49M) Expenses 100 ($49M) Net assets 100 ($9.9M)2018 Revenue 129 ($63M) Expenses 132 ($64M) Net assets 147 ($15M)2019 Revenue 129 ($63M) Expenses 130 ($63M) Net assets 146 ($14M)2020 Revenue 137 ($67M) Expenses 137 ($67M) Net assets 145 ($14M)2021 Revenue 149 ($73M) Expenses 149 ($73M) Net assets 146 ($14M)2022 Revenue 159 ($78M) Expenses 160 ($78M) Net assets 134 ($13M)2023 Revenue 187 ($91M) Expenses 189 ($92M) Net assets 124 ($12M)2024 Revenue 189 ($92M) Expenses 196 ($96M) Net assets 88 ($8.8M)2025 Revenue 213 ($104M) Expenses 211 ($103M) Net assets 22 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (213)Expenses (211)Net assets (22)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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 (20% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 50 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$44k
17
$1.3M
18
$172k
19
$45k
20
$186k
21
$754k
22
$1.1M
23
$3.7M
24
$902k
25
0.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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 40 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 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

CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

89% 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.

71%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

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; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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.

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
AZ
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 40 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

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.

Federal$10.1M
grants $10.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • 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

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 9%Fundraising 1%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

NY
NJ
CT

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES?
CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES (New York) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,162,057 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($14,235,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $20,162,057 in grants to CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES, 21 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.

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 40funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing