Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC
THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,698,987 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($10,012,500). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 118
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $17M
What The Urban Alliance Foundation Inc does
Mission
The urban alliance foundation, inc. (the foundation) is a nonprofit that connects high school students to equitable, inclusive career pathways through paid work experiences, mentorship, and professional development. We work with schools and employers to address systemic barriers to economic mobility for young adults of color and to bridge the gaps between education and workforce development for all young people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Workforce development programs: this category primarily represents the foundation's key vehicle for building a more equitable workforce: work-based learning. Our core model, the high school internship program (hsip), bridges the opportunity gap by connecting high school seniors in all four regions from historically excluded communities - primarily youth of color - to paid internships, skills and digital literacy training, mentoring, and college and career planning assistance. Recognizing the value of connecting youth earlier in their high school careers with work-based learning opportunities to prevent disconnection, the foundation also provides workforce readiness training and career exposure to students as early as freshman year of high school in the greater dc and chicago regions. The foundation also facilitates other internship programs for non-high school youth via contracts with other organizations. These programs are modeled after the hsip in that youth are provided paid internships and receive life-skills and job readiness training. During the covid-19 pandemic the foundation transitioned to virtual programming.
$10,535,504 spent$1,119,375 earned by the program85% of program spendingProgram development: this category refers to activities designed to scale and improve the foundation's programs. The foundation is dedicated to continuous learning, constantly refining and fine-tuning processes to spur real-time, data-driven decision-making that allows the foundation to deliver programming of the highest-possible quality for students. Replication activities are designed to increase the quantity of youth served by the foundation's programs by finding new and innovative ways to deliver programs in current areas served as well as by expanding to offer proven program models in new areas. Program quality and fidelity are improved through evaluation activities designed to identify strengths and areas for growth that inform the foundation's program operations. Evaluation activities include experimental design studies with the urban institute as well as short term outcome evaluations that allow the foundation to improve program quality and deliver improved services to youth.
$817,653 spent$1,189,082 earned by the program7% of program spendingYouth programs: this category represents the foundation's supplemental programs. All students who complete hsip are guaranteed lifetime college and career support through our alumni services program should they need it. Services are primarily concentrated during a student's first two years post-program to ensure continued connection to an economically-mobile pathway. Additional services include the alumni internship program, education, and career counseling, continued professional development, and professional networking opportunities. Additionally, the foundation has made its proprietary curriculum available to outside organizations on a limited basis, through staff-facilitated or train-the-trainer outreach models, provided that project scopes and organizations align with the foundation's mission. The foundation's curriculum will be selected and modified, if necessary, to meet the needs of the project. The foundation receives revenue for an organization's use of the foundation's curriculum, professional fees for the foundation staff, and expenses necessary to execute the project. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, the foundation transitioned to virtual programming.
$990,685 spent$726,078 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,343,842.
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 2021 to 2022, from $17M to $27M (+56%).
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 1% · 2019 25% · 2020 14% · 2021 16% · 2022 0% · 2023 19% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% 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
Mary Menell Zients
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $3.0M.
26 of 118 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 118 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 URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
65% 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 URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 22% · 2019 31% · 2020 17% · 2021 22% · 2022 61% · 2023 18% — 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
38% of THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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 URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M 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 URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,551 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.0M on record.
- Department of Commerce$3.3M
- Department of Labor$2.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$130k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$75k
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 THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC
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In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC?
- THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,698,987 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($10,012,500). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 118 organizations giving $38,698,987 in grants to THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC, 72 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,012,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC 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.
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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 118 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