Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
URBAN INNOVATION21
URBAN INNOVATION21 (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,000 to it, the largest being SURDNA FOUNDATION INC ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $297k
- Net assets
- $278k
What Urban Innovation21 does
Mission
Urban Innovation21, administrator of the pittsburgh central keystone innovation zone (pckiz) is a public-private partnership that boosts regional economic development through 21st century innovation-driven entrepreneurship. Urban Innovation21 links successful innovation economy clusters with the needs and assets of underserved communities by designing and implementing programs, building strategic bridges and teaming up with existing organizations and initiatives. Urban Innovation21 believes that an inclusive innovation economy is key in increasing regional competitiveness and sustainability.because of its success and creativity in administering the kiz program, Urban Innovation21 was renamed in january of 2012 by then, pckiz board of directors, to increase the breadth of the pckiz's work and to support initiatives that are outside the defined boundary of the pckiz.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
Pwas:since 2012, Urban Innovation21 has recognized the strong entrepreneurial spirit in the hill district and homewood communities by hosting a small business grant competition. In the spring of 2017, Urban Innovation21 expanded its business development programming to the northside community. To date, $650,000 in grants have been awarded to 75 businesses in those communities. In addition to grants, ui21 has provided these companies with a wide array of business support to help them grow their businesses. The fall 2016 grant competition awarded $120,000 in grants to winners of the inclusive innovation community-based business grant competition, and these grants were funded through support from the richard king mellon foundation and upmc health plan. Awards ranged from $5,000 to $10,000. Six hill district businesses won: living juicy, ans billing, and errands made easy existed previously while tdc contracting, communion llc, and tds productions entered as start-up companies. Nine businesses represented homewood: roland ford productions, the professional barber institute, knotzland, strong's cleaners, and big lulu's trucking were pre-existing and drafting dreams, natural choice,…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.3M to $851k (−35%).
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 12%. 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 2 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 → 2018: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $231k → $66k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 INNOVATION21’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 INNOVATION21 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 84%; 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 INNOVATION21.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 38% — 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.
Where its funders are
55% of URBAN INNOVATION21's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 INNOVATION21
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
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 INNOVATION21: 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 INNOVATION21?
- URBAN INNOVATION21 (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,000 to it, the largest being SURDNA FOUNDATION INC ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN INNOVATION21 have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $297,000 in grants to URBAN INNOVATION21, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN INNOVATION21?
- SURDNA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN INNOVATION21 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 5 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