Alabama · Nonprofit
URBAN HOPE DEVELOPMENT
URBAN HOPE DEVELOPMENT (Alabama) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,026 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($145,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $135k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $382k
- Net assets
- $117k
What Urban Hope Development does
Mission
Equip students and families with opportunities to learn, grow and be all that they were created to be in their community, through education and economic development initiatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Education -uhope success academy summer learning camp; afterschool tutoring -year round; during the summer, we serve approximately 50 middle school students with academic enrichment in math and reading in the month of june each year; we provide afterschool tutoring/homework help for approximately 50-60 students each year; program budget - $57,000
$0 spentEconomic development - work life assistance; faith & finance budgeting, tech training - we provide assistance for adults throughout the year; assist with resume' preparation, job interview skills, provide job leads, understanding credit, budget creation, transportation, address job barriers which include fines, fees and tickets. We serve approximately 30-40 adults annually. No grants are received specifically for these programs/services; program budget - $56,000
$0 spentCrisis assistance -assist with utility shut-off prevention, eviction prevention with rental assistance, emergency food, diapers and wipes. We assist people who live in fairfield and/or are involved with one of our programs, as needed and as funds allow. No grants are received for this service. Funds used are not designated. Program budget - $12,000
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $100k to $136k (+36%).
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.
99% of URBAN HOPE DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sandra Hardy
Executive director
Board chair
Chase Anderson
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $20k.
4 of 13 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 URBAN HOPE DEVELOPMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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 HOPE DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 HOPE DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 44% · 2021 54% · 2022 67% · 2023 61% — 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 HOPE DEVELOPMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
75% of URBAN HOPE DEVELOPMENT's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180k 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 HOPE DEVELOPMENT's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like URBAN HOPE DEVELOPMENT
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN HOPE DEVELOPMENT: 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 HOPE DEVELOPMENT?
- URBAN HOPE DEVELOPMENT (Alabama) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,026 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($145,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN HOPE DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $382,026 in grants to URBAN HOPE DEVELOPMENT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN HOPE DEVELOPMENT?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN HOPE DEVELOPMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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