Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC
GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,272,782 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($2,124,908). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $170M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Greater Washington Urban League Inc does
Mission
The greater washington urban league ("gwul or "the league") envisions a dc metro area inclusive of flourishing, multi-generational, black communities where members thrive without the hindrance of systemic minoritization and racial violence. Thus, the league is on a mission to increase the monetary and political wellness and power of historically disenfranchised and economically excluded black and other populations of color. Gwul concurrently works to advance racial equity as a mechanism to achieve equity while also promoting self-reliance and political parity. Our work combats generational weathering, psychological oppression, structural barriers, lost wealth, and community displacement.for 84 years, the league has impacted millions of lives, standing both on society's frontlines and in the trenches, serving as a safety net and opportunity facilitator in the greater washington dc community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency assistancestability pathways: easing access to emergency funds and public benefitswe provide channels of financial recovery by distributing emergency assistance to families at risk of eviction, food insecurity, utility disruptions, education delays or medical neglect. Our financial aid includes: payment of rental arrears paydown of past due utility bills cash for life's emergencies eviction diversion support access support for college students experiencing financial hardship advocacy to end poverty policies
$9,685,503 spent6% of program spendingHousing serviceshomeownership pathways: from rooming to renting to owningour work stretches from preventing homelessness to making homeownership a reality by helping clients avoid the traumas of eviction and foreclosure while preparing others for the rigors and rewards of home ownership. Our services include: closing cost & down payment funding housing counseling & education home ownership academy foreclosure & loan modification support weatherization advocacy for fair credit reporting
$156,448,707 spentof which $30,000 as grants93% of program spendingFamily wellness
$1,263,329 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $167,397,539.
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 2024 to 2025, from $15M to $28M (+90%).
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 77% · 2019 68% · 2020 68% · 2021 84% · 2022 96% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
George H Lambert Jr
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $207k → $468k.
6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.5M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Washington Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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
GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 54% · 2019 88% · 2020 77% · 2021 61% · 2022 61% · 2023 65% — 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
35% of GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC'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
GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $613k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 178 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 178 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- District of Columbia Courts$75k
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 GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC
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
98% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Urban League · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE 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 GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC?
- GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,272,782 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($2,124,908). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,272,782 in grants to GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC?
- NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,124,908 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC 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 27 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