Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE ULI FOUNDATION
THE ULI FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,803,211 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($6,134,520). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 93
- Grants received
- $27M
- Net assets
- $90M
What The Uli Foundation does
Mission
The Uli Foundation supports the mission of the urban land institute by providing an assured source of funding for uli's core research, education, and public service activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Primarily grants to the urban land institute:supports research and education activities of the institute - a related organization.
$9,374,401 spentof which $9,374,401 as grants$411,355 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,374,401.
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 $58M to $74M (+27%).
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.
80% of THE ULI FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Angela Cain
Global CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $4.8M.
24 of 93 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $8.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Urban Land Institute). These are real filings, and they are not money THE ULI FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE ULI FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 93 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 ULI FOUNDATION 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 44% · 2019 38% · 2020 38% · 2021 27% · 2022 26% · 2023 22% — 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
39% of THE ULI FOUNDATION'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
THE ULI FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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 ULI FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 25 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 25 social science nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE ULI FOUNDATION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Urban Land Institute · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ULI FOUNDATION: 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 THE ULI FOUNDATION?
- THE ULI FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,803,211 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($6,134,520). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ULI FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 93 organizations giving $26,803,211 in grants to THE ULI FOUNDATION, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ULI FOUNDATION?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,134,520 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ULI FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 93 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