New York · Nonprofit
URBAN HOPE INC
URBAN HOPE INC (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,874,632 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,585,784). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $801k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $626k
What Urban Hope Inc does
Mission
Urban hope's mission is to build cities and communities where there are no sheep without a shepherd.urban hope's vision is to build a house of hope in this world of pain. To see heaven's hope and joy saturate under-resourced communities everywhere.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
The city of joy department focuses on providing christian literature to thousands of churches across the tri-state area. A 50,000 square foot warehouse is utilized to store millions of books. There are over 35 titles, ranging from kids books in english and spanish, to youth books and wonderful devotions. The books include those written by famed authors, like lee strobel, max lucado, louis giglio and many other wonderful authors. The mosy important is the bible. Transportation is key to this department to receive and deliver out much needed christian resources. Jesus week department focuses on events with churches adopting their neighborhood, low-income communities and schools to deliver christian events. These events have a climax event in times square (nyc) where tens of thousands of people congregate for a night of worship and prayer. Literacy is much needed within our low-income families. We have assisted hundreds of children who were well below satisfactory levels to rise to an exceptional level. We work with five schools and over 200 volunteers to assist our children who need private literacy assistance.
$331,591 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $331,591.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $415k to $539k (+30%).
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 INC’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. 0 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $31k → $645k.
8 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 18 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 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 53% · 2019 47% · 2020 69% · 2021 37% · 2022 41% · 2023 87% — 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
38% of URBAN HOPE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
72% of URBAN HOPE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $813k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,636 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,636 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like URBAN HOPE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN HOPE 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 HOPE INC?
- URBAN HOPE INC (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,874,632 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,585,784). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does URBAN HOPE INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,874,632 in grants to URBAN HOPE INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN HOPE INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,585,784 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN HOPE INC 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 18 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