Kentucky · Nonprofit
THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC
THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,098,786 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($11,332,083). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $50M
- Net assets
- $25M
What The Louisville Urban League Inc does
Mission
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Louisville urban league's employment services program, through its center for workforce development services, serves as a staffing and recruitment resource for the louisville area business community by providing a full array of professional employment services to socially and economically disadvantaged individuals seeking employment, a career change and job training.
$1,967,955 spent29% of program spendingThe louisville urban league's center for housing and economic empowerment provides comprehensive housing counseling and financial education programs to families throughout the louisville metro area to help increase access to safe, decent, affordable housing for low to moderate income households. Program services include home ownership training, rental readiness, mortgage default/foreclosure counseling, budget and credit counseling, fair housing education, and a variety of financial education classes.
$857,745 spent$929,327 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe louisville urban league's youth development and education department provides a portfolio of out of school time (ost) youth and education department programs designed to provide academic assistance, life skills, leadership development, community service, and college and career exploration for at risk youth. Services also include parental involvement and educational attainment programs for adults.
$2,673,364 spent40% of program spendingAdvocacy
$1,241,482 spentof which $1,722,796 as grants18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,740,546.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $24M to $47M (+93%).
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 26% · 2019 40% · 2020 20% · 2021 17% · 2022 31% · 2023 45% · 2024 80% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Lorri Lee
Board member, chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $7.1M.
12 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $13M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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
THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% 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 THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 80% · 2019 71% · 2020 26% · 2021 40% · 2022 46% · 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
41% of THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE LOUISVILLE 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
41% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Rebound Inc · exempt
- Louisville Urban League Sports and Learning Complex Inc · exempt
- United Scholars Learning Center LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC?
- THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,098,786 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($11,332,083). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $50,098,786 in grants to THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC?
- NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,332,083 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 82 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