Tennessee · Nonprofit
MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC
MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,795,380 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH ($1,088,835). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $639k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $607k
What Memphis Urban League Inc does
Mission
To enable and empower african-americans and other minorities in underserved communities to achieve their highest human potential and secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization provided workforce readiness training and other employment support services to eligible individuals who reside within the catchment area. This specifically includes individuals who face systemic economic disadvantages due to high incidences of unemployment, lack of affordable housing, and other socio-economic factors.
$389,909 spentof which $20,500 as grants$593,255 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $389,909.
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 2020 to 2021, from $491k to $855k (+74%).
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: 2018 33% · 2019 4% · 2020 80% · 2021 3% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $344k → $177k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 MEMPHIS 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
MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 88% · 2019 83% · 2020 93% · 2021 41% · 2022 46% · 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
38% of MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
81% of MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MEMPHIS 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 MEMPHIS 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 MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC?
- MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,795,380 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH ($1,088,835). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,795,380 in grants to MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH is the largest funder on record, with $1,088,835 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC 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.
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 11 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