New York · Nonprofit
THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC
THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC (New York) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,590,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,255,300). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.8M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What The Urban Assembly Inc does
Mission
To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Social emotional learning:the resilient scholars program (rsp) scales evidence- based sel practices across schools and systems. The program provides schools with a sustainable, whole-school model for embedding sel into daily practice through universal student support, direct sel instruction, adult sel development, data-informed decision-making, and school-wide integration.
$1,977,171 spentof which $24,000 as grants$553,635 earned by the program35% of program spendingLeadership:the urban assembly uses innovative tools to scale the work being done at ua and partner schools. These tools include project cafe and counselorgpt. Project cafe uses machine learning to analyze classroom video, provide actionable insights to teachers, and give educators greater autonomy over their professional development. The platform analyzes classroom recordings in near real-time, delivers specific feedback to teachers, and streamlines coaching for school leaders and instructional coaches. Counselorgpt is an ai-powered platform that gives students 24/7 access to high-quality, personalized postsecondary guidance while trengthening counselors' capacity through a built-in co-pilot. Using large language models and trusted datasets, the platform supports students with career exploration, pathway selection, return-oninvestment comparisons across college and career options, and long-term postsecondary planning tasks.our vision is that young people graduate from school prepared to excel in college, career, and community. By age 26, we envision ua alums earning a postsecondary credential and making 20% or more above the living wage.ua schools are unscreened and serve…
$1,644,894 spent$364,218 earned by the program29% of program spendingInstructional quality, ops & data, school support, and ua schools:the instructional quality team supports schools in implementing student success systems (sss), a coordinated, data-driven approach designed to keep students, particularly 9th graders, on track for graduation and postsecondary success. Grounded in evidence-based research, our team supports schools in monitoring early warning indicators such as course performance, attendance, and behavior, while using cross-functional teams to implement targeted interventions before students fall behind.
$1,438,206 spent$632,220 earned by the program26% of program spendingPost secondary readiness and success:the post secondary readiness and success team implements a variety of services designed to build awareness, readiness, experiences, and success in their college and career pathways. Programming includes career pathways through work-based learning experience opportunities and industry partnerships; and college selection, application, matriculation, and persistence support.
$579,446 spent$463,049 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,639,717.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.0M to $7.2M (+82%).
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: 2021 11% · 2023 6% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
David Adams
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Dr Meisha Porter
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $4.4M.
14 of 63 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 ASSEMBLY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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 ASSEMBLY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
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 THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 28% · 2019 20% · 2020 48% · 2021 41% · 2022 36% · 2023 34% — 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
51% of THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
81% of THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 ASSEMBLY INC's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 28 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE URBAN ASSEMBLY 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC?
- THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC (New York) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,590,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,255,300). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $27,590,000 in grants to THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $9,255,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 63 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing