Colorado · Nonprofit
Urban Island Project
Urban Island Project (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,540 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $116k
- Net assets
- $50k
What Urban Island Project does
Mission
Urban Island Projects purpose is to partner with and compliment the efforts of any organization that seeks to improve the quality of life in the urban neigborhoods of the most populus American cities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Support for civic community improvement endeavors, local schools, existing non-profits and other organizations seeking to raise the standard of life in the local context. Additionally, we will assist with the start of new faith communities and neighborhood focused churches to assist community residents with spiritual guidance and counsel. We will be enabled to implement these supporting activities by recruiting students from institutions of higher education from across the nation for a one year urban service experience in partnership with the startup of new neighborhood focused church. Urban Islands will also recruit the church starters to lead these localized projects and maintain the ongoing service to the community with neighborhood residents who desire to stregthen the conectedness of their local neighborhood. All charitable services and programs will be provided without regard to race, ethnicity or religion of the recipient. To maximize our impact, we need to collaborate with other non-profit organizations that fall under the 501c3 section of the internal revenue code.
$81,492 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $81,492.
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 $81k to $50k (−39%).
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 48% · 2018 48% · 2019 28% · 2020 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Urban Island Project’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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 held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $17.
3 of 4 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 Island Project’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 Island Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Island Project.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 60% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Urban Island Project draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Island Project's revenue fell 41% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,647 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Urban Island Project
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Island Project: 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 Island Project?
- Urban Island Project (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,540 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Urban Island Project have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $115,540 in grants to Urban Island Project, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Urban Island Project?
- Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Urban Island Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing