California · Nonprofit
United Religions
United Religions (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,620,146 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE AND JUDY MARCUS FAMILY FOUNDATION II ($5,012,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $15M
What United Religions does
Mission
Founded in 2000, URI is a global NGO with the purpose to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice, and healing for the Earth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Global Network Development: Our global network of interfaith grassroots activists is working tirelessly to create the world we want to see: a world where people of all faiths, religions, spiritual expressions, and Indigenous traditions are able to live their lives in peace and dignity and where the Earth is treated with equal love and respect.As URI celebrates its 25th anniversary, we are re-committing to its three purpose areas and have outlined a new strategic framework to achieve growth, focus, and impact over the coming five years. URI is a network of over 1,150 Cooperation Circles (CCs) in 113 countries. CCs have at least seven members, and represent at least three different faiths or spiritual traditions.
$2,405,282 spentof which $960,243 as grants70% of program spendingThe Global Council is URI's governing Board of Trustees. Trustees are elected by URI grassroot member CCs from each of the eight regions. The Global Council's primary responsibilities include being the governing and fiduciary body of URI, and coordinating the strategic framework of the organization. The latest framework includes three strategic priorities: Optimizing Network Growth and Connectivity, Facilitating and Supporting Cross-Cultural Learning and Collaboration, and Launching a Coordinated Global Effort to End Violence, particularly religiously motivated violence.
$430,583 spentof which $2,093 as grants13% of program spendingCommunication and Education OutreachVisit 2024.uriimpact.org to see the latest programming at URI. As part of our efforts to strengthen the capacity of the URI network to prevent violence, we have conducted trainings on the Health Approach in Nigeria, India, and Honduras. As a result of these training sessions, we have seen an enthusiastic response from Network members who participated in the training who have then gone on to conduct additional training sessions, spreading the health approach to others in their communities. To deepen our URI Purpose-focused and Principle-informed collective impact, we began to create new cross-regional and global learning pathways adaptable to all regions, creating opportunities for enriched skill-building and learning for collaborative action. URI network members were invited to interactive online participant-centered journeys in NEW WORKSHOPS: beginning with 3hrs of New CC and Member Orientations, through six 3hr Introductions to key URI competency areas*, into a 12hr Learning-in-Action Series over four months for multiple CC teams culminating in local team projects.
$505,688 spentof which $51,525 as grants15% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$84,223 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,425,776.
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 $20M to $15M (−26%).
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: 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
104% of United Religions’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Gerard B White
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 16 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $1.3M.
17 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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: $11M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Religions Initiative Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money United Religions raised.
From the IRS filings of United Religions’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
United Religions leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 United Religions.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 53% · 2019 67% · 2020 34% · 2021 72% · 2022 59% · 2023 39% — 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
55% of United Religions's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
99% of United Religions's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
United Religions's revenue grew 97% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like United Religions
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 1 related entity
- The United Religions Initiative Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for United Religions: 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 United Religions?
- United Religions (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,620,146 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE AND JUDY MARCUS FAMILY FOUNDATION II ($5,012,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does United Religions have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $12,620,146 in grants to United Religions, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of United Religions?
- THE GEORGE AND JUDY MARCUS FAMILY FOUNDATION II is the largest funder on record, with $5,012,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like United Religions find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 36 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