Massachusetts · Nonprofit
URBAN GUILD INC
URBAN GUILD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,776,996 to it, the largest being KRUPP FAMILY FOUNDATION ($573,491). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $874k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Urban Guild Inc does
Mission
The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in bostons urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and skills.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The guild develops local and global ecosystems for collaborative, community-owned social enterprises and initiatives focused on health food, clean energy, art and culture, healing and wellness, green infrastructure demonstration, as well as training and education, credentialing research and publishing.
$496,184 spentof which $7,500 as grants65% of program spendingThe guild invests in and expands meaningful programming, training, capacity building and credentialing opportunities in our communities to support (I) food access and healthy eating, (ii) healing and active lifestyles, (iii) resurfacing local & indigenous practices, and (iv) healing & wellness focused entrepreneaurship.
$193,712 spentof which $1,000 as grants26% of program spendingThe guild creates new and flexible infrastructure for the showcasing and demonstration of solutions, culture and entrepreneurial initiatives created by a local-to-global indigenous and poc ecosystem which includes a wide variety of committed cross-sector partners and allies. Guild sanctuary venues form the foundation for deep experiences of healing and connection, education, market vetting of entrepreneurial ideas and new knowledge and asset creation.
$58,365 spent8% of program spendingThe guild showcases global poc artists, exhibits, happenings, workshops, experiences and ceremonies for the defined purpose of creating profound and novel opportunities for the sharing, understanding and support of creative expression and ritual. It also supports new models to support the work and practice of global poc artists in a manner that intimately connects deep community experience and learning, on a global basis.
$9,973 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $758,234.
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 2019 to 2020, from $214k to $1.4M (+549%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of URBAN GUILD INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Jhana Senxian
CEO and president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $149k → $110k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 GUILD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 GUILD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 GUILD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 94% · 2020 41% · 2021 71% · 2022 31% · 2023 45% — 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
60% of URBAN GUILD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
100% of URBAN GUILD INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
URBAN GUILD INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding URBAN GUILD INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $211k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$211k
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 GUILD INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 GUILD INC: 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 GUILD INC?
- URBAN GUILD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,776,996 to it, the largest being KRUPP FAMILY FOUNDATION ($573,491). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN GUILD INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,776,996 in grants to URBAN GUILD INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN GUILD INC?
- KRUPP FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $573,491 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN GUILD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 12 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