Tennessee · Nonprofit
The Urban Child Institute
The Urban Child Institute (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being The Education Trust Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $130M
What The Urban Child Institute does
Mission
The urban child institute is dedicated to promoting the education, health, and well-being of young children in shelby county.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Urban Child Institute is dedicated to promoting the education, health, and well-being of young children in Shelby County. The Institute strives to be a recognized leader in child advocacy, a trustworthy community partner and a source of advice and support for like-minded organizations. UCI staff made presentations and lead discussions regarding children's health, social and emotional development. UCI staff served as participants and leaders in a variety of child related coalitions that have as a goal bringing community groups with similar interests together in order that they might share experiences, gain insight into what others are doing and potentially develop collaborative projects. In 2024, UCI funded numerous not for profits in Shelby County that have a focus on early childhood. UCI also provided funding to designated (by charter) support organizations: LeBonheur Children's Hospital, University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the University of Memphis. In addition, Porter Leath, the major provider of Early Head Start services was granted funds for their early childhood initiatives.
$6,016,979 spentof which $5,142,575 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,016,979.
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 2021 to 2022, from $155M to $122M (−21%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Kathy Buckman-Gibson
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of The Urban Child Institute’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
The Urban Child Institute draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like The Urban Child Institute
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- lebonheur children's hospital foundation · exempt
- university of memphis foundation · exempt
- university of tennessee · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Urban Child Institute: 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 Urban Child Institute?
- The Urban Child Institute (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being The Education Trust Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Urban Child Institute have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to The Urban Child Institute.
- Who is the largest funder of The Urban Child Institute?
- The Education Trust Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Urban Child Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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