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URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY
URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY (New Jersey) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,044,172 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($17,676,618). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Urban League of Essex County does
Mission
The organizations mission is to assist disadvantaged urban residents in the achievement of social and economic self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Educational services programs - provide full day year round developmentally appropriate early childhood education. These include summer camp and food programs.
$1,019,761 spent16% of program spendingYouth programs - provide tutorial support, educational reinforcement and activities which motivate and encourage learning.
$59,638 spent1% of program spendingAdult programs provide job training and employment services to assist low income individuals enter the workforce.
$3,461,035 spent56% of program spendingEmployment and economic development programs help to increase economic strength of low and moderate income citizens by providing them with home ownership and retention strategies and other direct/indirect financial assistance.
$523,251 spent8% of program spendingHousing & neighborhood revitalization programs provide home ownership opportunities for low income families.
$1,165,837 spent19% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,229,522.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $13M to $19M (+51%).
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 74% · 2021 47% · 2022 65% · 2023 64% · 2024 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Vivian Cox Fraser
President and CEO
Board chair
Sherkera Green
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $3.0M → $3.3M.
6 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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 LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 80% · 2019 73% · 2020 68% · 2021 58% · 2022 69% · 2023 65% — 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.
How long its funders stay
46% of URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $157k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.7M on record — $2.2M federal, $11.5M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.7M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$500k
- DEDICATED$5.5M
- FEDERAL$3.9M
- GRANT IN AID$1.4M
- TRUST FUND$406k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$248k
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 LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY?
- URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY (New Jersey) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,044,172 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($17,676,618). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $26,044,172 in grants to URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY?
- NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,676,618 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 54 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