Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION
CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,380,740 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,037,870). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $-1301299
What Center for Urban Renewal & Education does
Mission
Focusing on public policy that promotes market-based solutions to fight poverty in african-american and urban communities in order to dismantle government dependency and advance economic growth through faith, family, and local governance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Policy center: we work to change laws and change lives. Our policy center creates & advocates for policy solutions impacting hard-hit communities & promoting the betterment of impacted citizens. We consult with elected officials & allied organizations to help change federal laws that affect our nation's low-wage workers & welfare dependents, empowering them to live lives of freedom and economic independence. We launched a collaborative study with the claremont institute, "the state of black america," exploring the latest scholarship into the character, shape, & tendencies of life in the u.s. For blacks. We also developed various policy reports on the following issues: an action plan to fix our inner cities; black voting behavior; defending religious liberty and our christian future; inequality; the breakdown of marriage and family; and factors contributing to increases in median black households' income.
$810,283 spent42% of program spendingMedia center: addressing issues of race, poverty, & culture from a judeo-christian perspective, communicating strong messages in the mainstream and alternative media through our own platforms: our tv show cure america with star parker (casp), and our daily news site blackcommunitynews.com (bcn). Our casp show launch coincided with george floyd's death and the riots around our country, showing casp to be the shining light of reason in the midst of chaos. Casp reached over 115 million homes in the u.s. In 2022. Our digital footprint grew due to a media blitz to protect the emancipation memorial in d.c., and our billboard campaign showing teens in distressed zip codes the key to breaking poverty.
$790,989 spent41% of program spendingClergy center (national clergy network): cure engages, educates, and equips a network of conservative pastors that serve our nation's at-risk, poor, and most vulnerable in distressed communities with information on congressional initiatives, public policy ideas, and current debates that affect their congregations and communities. The goal is to prove that the answer to poverty is freedom, not a welfare state. Cure is investing in growing our clergy network to give those in distressed zip codes a greater voice and representative constituency in our capital, and in the halls of government. Growing our network will also allow us to increase our reach to those living in distressed zip codes and urban communities, to dismantle government dependency, and to empower them to have a strong voice and a seat at the table. Our pastors participate in an annual policy summit of fellowship, networking, and learning.
$327,972 spent$116 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,929,244.
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 2023 to 2024, from $918k to $2.5M (+175%).
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 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION’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. 5 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
Marc Little
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $354k → $492k.
18 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 RENEWAL & EDUCATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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 RENEWAL & EDUCATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
83% 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 RENEWAL & EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 60% · 2019 37% · 2020 48% · 2021 25% · 2022 17% · 2023 25% — 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
50% of CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
83% of CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $941k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 20 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 RENEWAL & EDUCATION's revenue grew 19% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION?
- CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,380,740 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,037,870). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $5,380,740 in grants to CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,037,870 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 59 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