Ohio · Nonprofit
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,860,179 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($3,397,711). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $921k
What Urban League of Greater Cleveland does
Mission
The mission of Urban League of Greater Cleveland, Inc., (the League) is a community-based organization focused on eliminating the racial, economic, and societal barriers that prevent Black Americans and other underrepresented/underserved communities of color from achieving their
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER: The Entrepreneurship Center works with private, public and nonprofit resources to build strong, sustainable and successful minority businesses. The result is wealth creation, job creation and better economic health in the minority and urban core communities of Cleveland. The Entrepreneurship Center assesses the needs and capabilities of minority business owners. Then those aspiring or current business owners are linked with resources, classes,training and counseling that will help them grow to the next level of success.
$1,213,488 spent30% of program spendingVOCATIONAL PREPARATION, JOB TRAINING, VOCATIONAL COUNCELING AND PLACEMENT - Services include job readiness training, preparation of resumes, interviewing, job search and placement services. Specialized services are provided to non-custodial fathers including parenting and employment skills.
$914,610 spent23% of program spendingEDUCATION FUND - Services which constitute the preventive arm of the Urban League. Building strong skills, fostering self-sufficiency at this level creates economic impact for the future. Youth who become well educated, gainfully employed contributing citizens will be an intricate part of tomorrows society. Services include college exposure career education, work-based learning expeiences, shadowing and service learning.
$633,533 spent16% of program spendingSupporting Program Fund
$1,068,012 spent27% of program spendingThe Urban League of Greater Cleveland is in a unique position and time in history, to be a pivotal player in the Race, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion space. We are receiving unprecedented requests for thought leadership, technical assistance, and best practices, from across various systems in our community. To position ourselves as credible leaders in the space, we thought it appropriate to establish an Equity Institute. The Institute will allow us to provide strategic advising; education, training & skill development to individuals, groups and organizations among other consulting services in the areas of DEI and ESG. The establishment of an Equity Institute will further entrench us as a credible and effective solutions provider.
$196,142 spent5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,025,785.
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 2019 to 2020, from $151k to $1.9M (+1183%).
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 59% · 2018 46% · 2019 73% · 2020 26% · 2021 50% · 2022 72% · 2023 59% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Kevin Clayton
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $444k → $1.7M.
7 of 34 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 LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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 GREATER CLEVELAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 GREATER CLEVELAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 42% · 2019 37% · 2020 68% · 2021 35% · 2022 35% · 2023 68% — 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
47% of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 GREATER CLEVELAND draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Commerce$1.8M
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 GREATER CLEVELAND
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: 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 LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND?
- URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,860,179 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($3,397,711). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $10,860,179 in grants to URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,397,711 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 34 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