New York · Nonprofit
Urban Arts Partnership
Urban Arts Partnership (New York) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,182,715 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY ($1,484,179). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $8.2M
- Net assets
- $8.5M
What Urban Arts Partnership does
Mission
Urban arts uses game development as a powerful educational tool to teach computer science, creativity, collaboration, and leadership, while also supporting students and educators nationwide with equitable steam curricula, professional development, and resources endorsed by the college board and the u.s. Department of education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Urban arts serves 3,000 students annually with four programs designed to help students build creative and technical skills as a pathway to college and career. 1) creative coders is a middle school computer science curriculum that focuses on game creation and world building. 2) game on is a high school ap computer science curriculum endorsed by the college board. 3) game academy is a full-service high school game development and college access program with $46m in college scholarships to date. 4) alumni services is a college persistence program that includes accelerators, mentorships and internships. Formally known as school of interactive arts.
$3,034,694 spent$244,699 earned by the program63% of program spendingPartner schools: we serve three anchor schools where uap employees are stationed full time as community school directors. We provide whole school support and oversee the implementation of core uap programs during and after school, as well as throughout the summer. Anchor schools are a critical lab space for uap to work with school leaders and teachers to test innovative approaches to engaging students through the arts and technology.
$1,704,889 spent35% of program spendingNagler scholarship: the nagler scholar is a prestigious scholarship offered by board member niclas nagler to provide urban arts students with the financial support needed to reduce the cost of higher education, achieve their dreams and grow as leaders in their communities. In addition to one nagler scholar each year, the top three runners-up for the award also receive funding to offset college expenses.
$95,913 spentof which $95,913 as grants2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,835,496.
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 2024 to 2025, from $9.9M to $14M (+46%).
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 76% · 2018 60% · 2019 65% · 2021 58% · 2022 49% · 2023 60% · 2024 50% · 2025 45%. 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 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
Philip Courtney
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Elyse Dreyer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $714k → $1.3M.
17 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Urban Arts Partnership’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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 Arts Partnership has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
59% 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 Arts Partnership.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 84% · 2019 69% · 2020 28% · 2021 19% · 2022 23% · 2023 19% — 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
53% of Urban Arts Partnership'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
67% of Urban Arts Partnership'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. $2.9M 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 Arts Partnership receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.2M on record.
- Department of Education$14.7M
- National Endowment for the Arts$470k
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 Arts Partnership
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
96%
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 Arts Partnership: 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 Arts Partnership?
- Urban Arts Partnership (New York) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,182,715 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY ($1,484,179). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Urban Arts Partnership have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $8,182,715 in grants to Urban Arts Partnership, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Urban Arts Partnership?
- UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY is the largest funder on record, with $1,484,179 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Urban Arts Partnership 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.
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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 68 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