Tennessee · Nonprofit
KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED
KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED (Tennessee) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,660,405 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($2,839,176). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Knoxville Area Urban League Incorporated does
Mission
Knoxville area urban league, inc.'s mission is to enable african americans, other minority groups and the underserved to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing - the league operates as a hud-certified non-profit counseling agency to boost the likelihood of successful homeownership for individuals and families by providing financial capacity instruction, homeownership courses for first-time home buyers, and foreclosure counseling to help homeowners stay in their home. Foreclosure counseling or foreclosure prevention inlcudes a thorough financial analysis to assess the client's ability to maintain the mortgage and help in working with the client's lending institution to develop a mutually agreeable repayment structure to prevent default and/or foreclosure and budget counseling to reduce the risk of future mortgage payment problems. Financial literacy instruction teaches clients how to create a household budget, understand their spending habits and make wise spending choices and build their credit. The league provides clients with direct financial assistance for housing and utility services in connection with a grant program.
$505,298 spentof which $194,878 as grants34% of program spendingYouth - the education and youth program provides mentoring, academic support, leadership development and services to students. The national achievers honor society program provides students with year-long programming, offering opportunities for community service, an academic summit, workshops on topics such as etiquette, and networking and college tours.
$345,908 spentof which $15,108 as grants23% of program spendingTemporary assistance for needy families - in partnership with the united way of greater knoxville, the league provides assistance to needy families in the form of rent and utility assistance, childcare assistance and other emergenciy needs.
$301,075 spentof which $122,072 as grants20% of program spendingEconomic development and loan program - the league operates a loan program, entrepreneurship training program and financial empowerment center. As a certified community development financial institution, the loan and financial empowerment center provides access to the capital, technical assistance and business support services needed to start or expand a business. This allows individuals to achieve financial and economic self- sufficiency. The league provides one-on-one financial planning and coaching, budget and credit counseling and assistance opening checking and savings accounts. When clients utilize multiple league services, the league uses a team approach to deliver integrated services that involve each department impacted (workforce, youth, housing, economic development and loan program) to ensure a seamless continuum of services to the client. Workforce - the league offers an employment assistance program that aids a broad range of individuals including: the chronically unemployed, mature workers reentering the job market, and college graduates. The program addresses barriers using professional career counselors who provide indivdiual and group career counseling,…
$351,848 spentof which $555 as grants23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,504,129.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $6.6M to $8.7M (+33%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 18% · 2022 34% · 2023 30% · 2024 43% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 6 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
Tyvi Small
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $310k → $2.2M.
6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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: $2.0M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc). These are real filings, and they are not money KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED raised.
From the IRS filings of KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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
KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 72% · 2019 70% · 2020 64% · 2021 50% · 2022 78% · 2023 68% — growing more concentrated.
“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
46% of KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M 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
KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED: 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 KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED?
- KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED (Tennessee) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,660,405 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($2,839,176). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $5,660,405 in grants to KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED?
- NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,839,176 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 28 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