North Carolina · Nonprofit
URBAN INSTITUTE FOR STRENGTHENING FAMILIES
URBAN INSTITUTE FOR STRENGTHENING FAMILIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,500 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($170,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $140k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $195k
- Net assets
- $9k
What Urban Institute for Strengthening Families does
Mission
The Urban Institute for Strengthening Families focuses on mentoring, (financial, nutritional, historical, emotional) educating, community engagement, civics, critical thinking and life skills offer families expanded opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Harvesting humanity llc - provided integrated arts experience (mindfulness, meditation, and communication that provides participants with self-care and emotional regulation strategies for their social emotional growth).
$8,099 spent33% of program spendingMy brothers keeper charlotte - worked with executive director to shape and build the fatherhood framework for annie cassie, as well as participating in ongoing meetings to develop curriculum and frame work for structural components for the vanguard and healing circles. Preparing a emotional wellness component for the social emotional integrity of mbkclt boys.
$8,099 spent33% of program spendingSave the children nc head start - male engagement and fatherhood training
$8,099 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,297.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $55k to $15k (−72%).
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.
100% of URBAN INSTITUTE FOR STRENGTHENING FAMILIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $33k.
2 of 4 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 INSTITUTE FOR STRENGTHENING FAMILIES’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 INSTITUTE FOR STRENGTHENING FAMILIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 INSTITUTE FOR STRENGTHENING FAMILIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 64% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of URBAN INSTITUTE FOR STRENGTHENING FAMILIES's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 INSTITUTE FOR STRENGTHENING FAMILIES has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like URBAN INSTITUTE FOR STRENGTHENING FAMILIES
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN INSTITUTE FOR STRENGTHENING FAMILIES: 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 INSTITUTE FOR STRENGTHENING FAMILIES?
- URBAN INSTITUTE FOR STRENGTHENING FAMILIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,500 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($170,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN INSTITUTE FOR STRENGTHENING FAMILIES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $194,500 in grants to URBAN INSTITUTE FOR STRENGTHENING FAMILIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN INSTITUTE FOR STRENGTHENING FAMILIES?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN INSTITUTE FOR STRENGTHENING FAMILIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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