Illinois · Nonprofit
URBAN INITIATIVES INC
URBAN INITIATIVES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,814,905 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($3,120,379). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.5M
- Funders on record
- 114
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Urban Initiatives Inc does
Mission
Sports-based youth development programs to address equity gaps for chicago students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024-2025, ui partnered with 86 schools. We continue to deepen our relationships with long-term partner schools and intentionally expand our network across the city.
$7,911,436 spent$3,297,503 earned by the program100% of program spendingWe continue to develop workshops and pd experiences for adult coaches, parents and teachers who work with chicago youth, making space to discuss strategies for building resilience and healing through play. These workshops have been in such high demand that our team has build out versions of this content for different types of adult groups (pds for teachers in schools, workshops for parents seeking ways to engage their children, trainings for after school program staff who work with youth in active settings.
We are proud to continue our work with the department of family support services (dfss). In 2024-2025, we maintained our school year service grant, which allowed us to reach students in focused neighborhoods around the city with our after school soccer program. We also hosted 75 high school youth interns for a 6 week internship over the summer through the city's one summer chicago program. We are proud to be a long term partner agency to dfss and work with them to meet emerging needs that serve a broad range of young people in chicago.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,911,436.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.6M to $4.8M (+87%).
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 13% · 2021 13% · 2022 2% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of URBAN INITIATIVES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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 27 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $353k → $4.0M.
18 of 114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 INITIATIVES INC’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 INITIATIVES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
51% 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 INITIATIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 30% · 2019 32% · 2020 35% · 2021 10% · 2022 13% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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
48% of URBAN INITIATIVES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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 INITIATIVES INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 INITIATIVES INC has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding URBAN INITIATIVES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $741 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $741
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 INITIATIVES 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 INITIATIVES 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 INITIATIVES INC?
- URBAN INITIATIVES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,814,905 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($3,120,379). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN INITIATIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $13,814,905 in grants to URBAN INITIATIVES INC, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN INITIATIVES INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,120,379 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN INITIATIVES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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