Ohio · Nonprofit
URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL
URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL (Ohio) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,363,544 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($4,651,100). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 114
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $63M
What Urban Community School does
Mission
The organization takes a whole-child approach to education and serves as an anchor to support and stabilize the lives of children and families. As part of a high-quality education, the organization serves the social, emotional, physical, and spiritual development primarily to children of cleveland's near west side in grades pre-k - 8.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Urban Community School strives, in cooperation with families, to guide the growth and development of each child: academically, emotionally, morally, physically and spiritually. The school emphasizes continuous progress by encouraging each child to advance at his/her own pace to achieve their highest potential. The school enrolls 756 students.
$12,331,698 spent$927,055 earned by the program99% of program spendingProvided after school care for students
$94,556 spent$200,991 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,426,254.
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 2023 to 2024, from $52M to $65M (+27%).
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 30% · 2018 38% · 2019 31% · 2021 23% · 2022 43% · 2023 54% · 2024 33% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Christopher P Doyle
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $1.8M.
19 of 114 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.
From the IRS filings of URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 114 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 COMMUNITY SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
53% 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 COMMUNITY SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 23% · 2019 44% · 2020 53% · 2021 65% · 2022 21% · 2023 27% — 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
51% of URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
84% of URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Organizations like URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Urban Community School Property Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: 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 COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
- URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL (Ohio) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,363,544 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($4,651,100). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $24,363,544 in grants to URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL, 74 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $4,651,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 114 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