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OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE
OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,866 to it, the largest being HOWMET AEROSPACE FOUNDATION ($135,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $230k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $334k
- Net assets
- $459k
What Ohio Urban Renaissance does
Mission
Our mission is to establish and maintain an inclusive brand that serves as the foundational platform for youth outreach and community development efforts through programmatic initiatives that promote positive outcomes and progressive changes in the cultural climate of the inner city. Through our primary focus on youth outreach and enrichment, we design programs for underserved students that provide mentorship and socio-emotional learning opportunities while bridging post-secondary education persistence, career pathways, and workforce development resources for youth and their families as they transition into early adulthood.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Initiative for College Academics Now (I CAN) - is a college preparatory program aimed at encouraging inner-city high school students toward the path of post-secondary education. ICAN assists students with their current high school studies and helps them to effectively navigate their socio-emotional environmental landscape. ICAN provides students with opportunities for college credit procurement and industry-recognized certifications while in high school and follows students through the completion of their respective post-secondary education and career pathways. ICAN currently serves over 90 students and has aided in the enrollment and support of 30 plus first generation college students spanning institutions across the United States. Additionally, ICAN was awarded funding support from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce and partnered with Youngstown City School District to provide afterschool programming at the high school level. ICAN also worked with the students from Eastern Gateway Community College, students from the Education Department at Youngstown State University, and Youngstown State University's Diversity Equity and Inclusion Department to provide additional…
$3,718 spentof which $3,718 as grants2% of program spendingO.U.R. Prep Academy is a post-secondary bridge program and an extension of our ICAN program. OUR Prep Academy functions as a separate phase of programming and targets high school graduates interested in pursuing post-secondary education as either students or student-athletes but due to their varying circumstances may not be ready for full-time enrollment. OUR Prep affords high school graduates in the year immediately following graduation with support and guidance to aid in their development academically, personally, socially, or athletically while preparing them to achieve at the next level. OUR Prep assisted with the application, FAFSA, and enrollment of over 20 students into college part-time with all students successfully transferring into full-time college students.
$19,022 spentof which $2,500 as grants$10,861 earned by the program10% of program spendingOur REACH Mentoring Program is a specialized youth assessment and mentorship program identifying and targeting high school to late adolescents as they transition into early adulthood. REACH aims to help youth deal with the daily negative issues that have become a normal source of dysfunction and trauma within the urban landscape. Through healthy mentor-to-mentee relationships, events, workshops, and activities, participants are encouraged to dialogue and explore topics relating to crime prevention and intervention; substance abuse and recovery; conflict mediation and resolution; post-secondary education and employment; teenage pregnancy and parenthood; along with various other degrees of applicable mental, physical, and social development. REACH mentorship actively serves over 200+ at-risk young people from the community throughout the year.
$176,306 spent89% of program spendingJust BALL - Just Ball Amongst Life Lessons (BALL) is a series of youth recreational sports leagues geared towards engaging and motivating local area high school students to be more physically active, socially involved, and higher achieving students as they work through high school and transition into early adulthood. Over 150+ youth have been served to date. Our Just BALL program boasts a 100% graduation rate for participating seniors with marked improvements in grades, attendance, behavior, attitude, and fitness levels for all students. BALL is fit with motivational speakers and workshops covering job readiness and soft skills, financial literacy, nutrition and healthy lifestyle choices, as well as many other socio-emotional learning opportunities.
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The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $199,046.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $37k to $359k (+875%).
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: 2023 0% · 2024 87% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% 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
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
Kevin L Scott
Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $70k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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
OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 37% · 2021 91% · 2022 43% · 2023 28% — 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
50% of OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE: 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 OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE?
- OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,866 to it, the largest being HOWMET AEROSPACE FOUNDATION ($135,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $333,866 in grants to OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE?
- HOWMET AEROSPACE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 9 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