Indiana · Nonprofit
INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC
INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,944,514 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($16,528,035). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,253 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,253 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Arthur Jordan Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Indianapolis Indians Charities Inclocalportfolio match
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.
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 8% · 2019 8% · 2020 7% · 2021 4% · 2022 3% · 2023 6% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.7M.
4 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $6.8M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Central Indiana Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 88% · 2018 94% · 2019 56% · 2020 32% · 2021 77% · 2022 82% · 2023 44% — 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
28% of INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
73% of INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $126k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
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 33 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchIN · backs 120 organizations that share your funders · funds 256 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Arthur Jordan Foundationlocalportfolio matchIN · funds 62 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Indianapolis Indians Charities Inclocalportfolio matchIN · funds 25 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Environmental Council Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seiu Healthcare Illinois & Indianaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lacy Foundationshared funderslocalIN · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 61 organizations near you
- The Ackerman Foundationshared funderslocalIN · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 49 organizations near you
- Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Incshared funderslocalIN · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · funds 117 organizations near you
- Arts Council of Indianapolis Incshared funderslocalIN · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 113 organizations near you
- Healthcare Initiatives Incshared funderslocalIN · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 76 organizations near you
- Feeding Americashared fundersIL · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
- Hamilton County Community Foundation Incshared fundersIN · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDIANAPOLIS 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.
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 INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC?
- INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,944,514 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($16,528,035). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $23,944,514 in grants to INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,528,035 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 33funders 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