Ohio · Nonprofit
LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC
LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,076,101 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($652,970). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $488k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $242k
What Lorain County Urban League Inc does
Mission
To empower african americans and all disadvantaged persons in our community to participate equally in the educational , economic and social mainstream
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The lorain county urban leagues economic empowerment programs include housing, employment, and entrepreneurship. The lorain county urban league is a hud certified agency. Their home ownership program helps community members achieve and sustain successful home ownership through a variety of classes, workshops, one-to-one coacing and support. Their emergency assistance programs provide assistance to lorain county residents who are facing crises that risk or result in homelessness. Their employment services include assiting with interviewing skills, resume preparation, computer access for online job searches and applications, job search assistance, career counseling, job readiness training, job referrals, job development, job placement, case management, and post-placement follow up. The lorain county urban league also hosts the minority business assistance center (mbac)supporting aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners to launch and grow a small business enterprise through training and coaching resources
$122,720 spent15% of program spendingThe lorain county urban leagues education program exposes youth from elementary to high school through academic support, college, career, and life through after school tutoring, college and company tours, workshops, and internships. Programs such as project ready and equity and excellence project provide intellectually stimulating and character-building educational opportunities not always found in the classroom
$226,459 spent27% of program spendingThe lorain county urban leagues outreach and civic engagement initiatives continue to thoroughly incrase awareness of diversity, equity and inclusion through customized programs in lorain county. They empowered hundreds of lorain county residents through their #allin campaign to take control of their health and be protected against the coronavirus and the flu through a series of community health festivals and events that served over 400 lorain county residents. In addition, the urban league has worked closely with school districts and numerous organizations from across the county to expand their capacity in developing stronger diversity, equity and inclusion policies and procedures in their workplace. The lorain county urban league also works with the washkngton bureau to focus on policy and advocacy that push for greater resources and more effective policies to advance economic and social equity
$483,638 spent58% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $832,817.
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 2024 to 2025, from $624k to $245k (−61%).
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 11% · 2021 8% · 2022 24% · 2023 30% · 2024 66% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Parris Smith
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $109k → $444k.
6 of 16 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.
From the IRS filings of LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 60% · 2019 53% · 2020 51% · 2021 43% · 2022 27% · 2023 39% — 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
60% of LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
60% of LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $391k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LORAIN COUNTY 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 LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC?
- LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,076,101 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($652,970). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,076,101 in grants to LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC?
- NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC is the largest funder on record, with $652,970 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LORAIN COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing