Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION
URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 158 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,171,302 to it, the largest being PHILADELPHIA WORKS INC ($3,263,247). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77M
- Funders on record
- 158
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Urban Affairs Coalition does
Mission
Driving change from the ground up, the Urban Affairs Coalition (uac) unites government, business, neighborhoods, and individual initiatives to improve the quality of life in the region, build wealth in urban communities, and solve emerging issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Homelessness: programs provide high quality temporary housing and other supportive services throughout the city, helping homeless individuals successfully overcome multiple life barriers such as mental illness, prior incarceration and/or substance abuse issues.the emergency rental assistance program (erap), facilitated by philadelphia housing development corporation. (phdc), provides rental assistance to low-income households experiencing housing insecurity. This program transitioned to the eviction diversion program (edp), which serves as a valuable resource enabling tenants and landlords to resolve residential rental issues without resorting to costly or prolonged court processes.
$39,363,302 spent$154,399 earned by the program57% of program spendingCommunity intervention and support: uac has a long history of addressing community inequities and building initiatives to improve the quality of life in philadelphia and the surrounding region. For nearly fifty years, the agency has worked to strengthen the nonprofit sector through tailored technical assistance that ensures administrative efficiency, legal and regulatory compliance, strong fiscal stewardship, and best-in-class community/programmatic impact. (continued on schedule o.)with a staff of over 388 employees that serve over 250,000 people in the region annually, uac's major programs provide community intervention and support to those facing multiple barriers to success and self-sufficiency; improve chances for young people and low-income families; assist people at-work to improve educational options for residents of all ages; and through a wide array of other initiatives that address community needs through direct service, policy advocacy, and community initiatives large and small.citywide, uac offers a robust set of positive outlets for young people including: preparing them for self-sufficiency and adulthood through summer employment jobs, workforce training, career…
$22,991,784 spentof which $16,785 as grants$11,494 earned by the program34% of program spendingEducation: uac's programs focus on improving educational outcomes and increasing educational options for underserved communities with activities such as early childhood learning projects, workshops about educational options and scholarships, academic achievement classes, structured field trips, college visits, policy advocates, and more.
$1,392,785 spentof which $348,015 as grants2% of program spendingEconomic development: convenes multi-sector partnerships to address issues like financial literacy, affordable housing, small business development, minority inclusion in the construction industry and foreclosure prevention and delivers programming and consultancy towards the amelioration of these issues.
$1,340,241 spentof which $75,597 as grants$1,945,270 earned by the program2% of program spendingEmployment training: provide opportunities to low-income youth for employment training and workforce preparedness through summer internships and work experiences with civic and community-based organizations, public sector entities, and companies.
$1,372,785 spent2% of program spendingHealthcare services: to improve the health of children, adults, and families through education, sharing of information, and the investment of resources.
$829,418 spent1% of program spendingAids/hiv: uac provides programming through its partners to prevent the spread of hiv disease amount homeless and drug-addicted individuals, in particular in communities of color, through the provision of hiv counseling, testing, partner notification, referrals, and related preventive education activities. Services provided include addiction recovery and hiv/aids prevention and education.
$1,106,546 spent2% of program spendingResearch and evaluation services: provides information for decision-making on specific programs and is conducted within a setting of changing actors, priorities, resources and timelines.
$79,217 spentof which $2,000 as grants0% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $68,476,078.
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 2020 to 2021, from $21M to $26M (+22%).
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 87% · 2018 86% · 2019 85% · 2020 86% · 2021 80% · 2022 93% · 2023 85% · 2024 87% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Sharmain Matlock-Turner
CEO, ex-officio
Board chair
Rev Dr Lorina Marshall-Blake
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $575k → $2.4M.
23 of 158 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $6.6M from 21 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey); $20k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Urban Affairs Coalition). These are real filings, and they are not money URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION raised.
From the IRS filings of URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 158 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
URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
55% 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 URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 31% · 2019 52% · 2020 35% · 2021 31% · 2022 24% · 2023 17% — 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
26% of URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION'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
62% of URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Government funding URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of Labor$500k
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 URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION
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 Pennsylvania
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: 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 URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION?
- URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 158 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,171,302 to it, the largest being PHILADELPHIA WORKS INC ($3,263,247). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 158 organizations giving $19,171,302 in grants to URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION, 84 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION?
- PHILADELPHIA WORKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,263,247 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 158 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