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URBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION

URBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,362,467 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,424,170). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$7.4M
Net assets
$1.6M
12/23 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Urban Juncture Foundation does

Mission

The foundation provides job opportunities to its residents, quality goods and services to serve existing and secure new residents, and unique events and attractions to attract visitors. The foundation helps to stablize the community, and improve the well-being of its residents.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Incubator - brings together local entrepeneurs in the culinary, cultural, and conservation arenas and works with them to accelerate development of their enterprises. Boxville - chicagos 1st street container mall and street food market. Forum hall - a historic assembly hall that is being revitalized to serve as a platform for community based enterprises lifting-up music, dance, theater and other performance arts that have defined black chicago. Neighborhood agriculture - green-line farm to help transform the neighborhood look and feel. Neighborhood outreach and beautification - a broad set of community activities to create a share vision and team for neighborhood revitalization. Site management - management of the real estate of bronzeville cookin.

    $1,225,658 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,225,658.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($424k) Expenses 100 ($397k) Net assets 100 ($19k)2018 Revenue 108 ($457k) Expenses 116 ($461k) Net assets 81 ($16k)2019 Revenue 179 ($760k) Expenses 173 ($686k) Net assets 464 ($90k)2020 Revenue 253 ($1.1M) Expenses 260 ($1.0M) Net assets 669 ($130k)2021 Revenue 347 ($1.5M) Expenses 345 ($1.4M) Net assets 1188 ($231k)2022 Revenue 407 ($1.7M) Expenses 338 ($1.3M) Net assets 3266 ($636k)2023 Revenue 430 ($1.8M) Expenses 301 ($1.2M) Net assets 6496 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 412 ($1.7M) Expenses 364 ($1.4M) Net assets 8052 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (412)Expenses (364)Net assets (8052)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.7M to $3.2M (+82%).

$21k
$113k
$134k
$664k
$785k
$1.7M
$3.2M
$2.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2021 9% · 2022 2% · 2023 10% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of URBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
’17
−$4k
’18
$75k
’19
$40k
’20
$101k
’21
$387k
’22
$629k
’23
$303k
’24
10
months of
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.

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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $40k → $2.7M.

4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 JUNCTURE FOUNDATION’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 JUNCTURE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

40% 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 JUNCTURE FOUNDATION.

33%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 49% · 2019 55% · 2020 39% · 2021 34% · 2022 39% · 2023 71% — 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

30% of URBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

67% of URBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

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NY
DE
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

URBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Months of reserve10.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like URBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 13%Fundraising 2%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds URBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION?
URBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,362,467 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,424,170). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does URBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $7,362,467 in grants to URBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of URBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $2,424,170 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like URBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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