New York · Nonprofit
UPWARDLY GLOBAL
UPWARDLY GLOBAL (New York) receives grants from 139 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,478,652 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($15,833,000). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 139
- Grants received
- $54M
- Net assets
- $40M
What Upwardly Global does
Mission
Upwardly Global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. Economy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Job seekers: Upwardly Global's career coaching program helped place more than 1,500 job seekers in jobs with an average starting salary of over $67,000 in 2024 alone. We provide one-on-one career coaching, industry-specific services, reskilling and upskilling courses, and employer networking events. These offerings help them fully utilize their education and skills so they can return to work in their professional field.
$9,717,002 spentof which $336,495 as grants69% of program spendingWorkforce partners: for immigrant-serving organizations such as workforce agencies, community colleges, and refugee resettlement agencies, Upwardly Global provides technology and know-how to build an inclusive workforce. Our proven digital learning tools include a job seeker curriculum focused on soft-skill development and job-readiness training and a coaching curriculum that trains frontline staff to better serve immigrant job seekers. Workforce partners access technical assistance, dedicated account management, and our employer network. (see schedule o for continuation) employers: Upwardly Global collaborates with employers to help them find and hire the skilled talent they need. Companies gain access to qualified candidates to fill critical roles, ensuring businesses, communities, and the economy can thrive. We provide customized training and support to talent acquisition teams with inclusion training to complement companies' unconscious bias initiatives starting with inclusive practices for immigrants and refugees that benefit all employees.
$4,288,332 spentof which $375,000 as grants$1,149,752 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,005,334.
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 $13M to $23M (+86%).
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 11% · 2018 9% · 2019 9% · 2020 12% · 2021 16% · 2022 15% · 2023 10% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of UPWARDLY GLOBAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% 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
Jasmeet Krause-Vilmar
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Tammi Ling
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $7.5M.
29 of 139 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 UPWARDLY GLOBAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 139 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
UPWARDLY GLOBAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
66% 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 UPWARDLY GLOBAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 47% · 2019 17% · 2020 11% · 2021 13% · 2022 11% · 2023 11% — 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
44% of UPWARDLY GLOBAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
UPWARDLY GLOBAL draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
UPWARDLY GLOBAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 441 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 441 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding UPWARDLY GLOBAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.7M
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 UPWARDLY GLOBAL
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UPWARDLY GLOBAL: 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 UPWARDLY GLOBAL?
- UPWARDLY GLOBAL (New York) receives grants from 139 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,478,652 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($15,833,000). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPWARDLY GLOBAL have?
- IRS filings report 139 organizations giving $54,478,652 in grants to UPWARDLY GLOBAL, 74 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPWARDLY GLOBAL?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $15,833,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPWARDLY GLOBAL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 139 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