Illinois · Nonprofit
Springfield Urban League Inc
Springfield Urban League Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,750,385 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($11,342,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Springfield Urban League Inc does
Mission
To help african americans and others secure economic reliance, parity, power & civil rights
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Head Start and Early Head Start program provided early childhood education, health, nutrition for children 3 to 5 years old. Other services include family goal setting and family support, community outreach for social services, mental wellness and parent/child activities. Currently, the head start program provides center based services for 619 children in two counties Sangamon and Morgan. Twenty-First Century is after school program, provides the enrichment activities and tutoring, parent engagement for elementary, middle, and high school students in Springfield District.
$9,689,106 spent76% of program spendingCornerstone training program allows both state and local personnelfrom WIC programs to receive training be on programmatic issues and computer software used in accordance with Illinois Department of Public Health guidelines. There is also programmatic training for management, professional and clerical staff as well as expanding services to include a variety of human services and public health programs and distance learning.
$1,480,876 spent12% of program spendingHealth Initiative Program includes Community of Color, Wheels on Wellness and African American AIDS Response Act.
$1,250,692 spent10% of program spendingAll other programs
$340,590 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,761,264.
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.
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 $3.5M to $13M (+282%).
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 80% · 2018 79% · 2019 78% · 2020 83% · 2021 63% · 2022 77% · 2023 47% · 2024 81% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Marcus Johnson
President/CEO
Board chair
Josu Barba
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $481k → $9.9M.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 Springfield Urban League Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
Springfield Urban League Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Springfield Urban League Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 59% · 2019 38% · 2020 89% · 2021 63% · 2022 56% · 2023 94% — 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
63% of Springfield Urban League Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
77% of Springfield Urban League Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.4M that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M 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.
Government funding Springfield Urban League Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $68.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$67.5M
- Department of the Interior$350k
- Department of Justice$343k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Springfield 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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 Springfield 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 Springfield Urban League Inc?
- Springfield Urban League Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,750,385 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($11,342,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Springfield Urban League Inc have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $14,750,385 in grants to Springfield Urban League Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Springfield Urban League Inc?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $11,342,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Springfield Urban League Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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