Delaware · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC
METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC (Delaware) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,300,567 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($720,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Incyte Charitable Giving Foundationshared funderslocal
- The Fund for Change Incportfolio match
- Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltdportfolio 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 54% · 2018 44% · 2019 30% · 2020 65% · 2021 17% · 2022 34% · 2023 28% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC’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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $35k → $105k.
1 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC’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
METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 84%; 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 100% · 2019 90% · 2020 44% · 2021 67% · 2022 77% · 2023 67% — 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
29% of METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
80% of METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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 15 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Incyte Charitable Giving Foundationshared funderslocalDE · backs 63 organizations that share your funders · funds 66 organizations near you
- The Fund for Change Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Access Strategies Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Employment Law Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 1199 Seiu United Healthcare Workers Eastportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Int Union United Auto National Community Action Programportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Food and Commercial Workers International Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Raisedby US Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Voicesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- If Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pink House Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC
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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC: 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 METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC?
- METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC (Delaware) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,300,567 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($720,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,300,567 in grants to METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC?
- LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $720,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 15funders 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