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URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER HARTFORD INC

URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER HARTFORD INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,182,094 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($1,783,215). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.9M
Funders on record
34
Grants received
$6.2M
Net assets
$2.3M
20/34 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 70%
01What it does

What Urban League of Greater Hartford Inc does

Mission

To promote the self-empowerment of individuals in the connecticut capital region to achieve educational, occupational, and economic equality for themselves and their families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Workforce development: to provide employment skills and occupational training to individuals in the capital region of hartford so they may enter or re-enter the workforce leading to economic self sufficiency.

    $171,226 spent$54,780 earned by the program
    12% of program spending

  2. Education and youth development: to provide youth and adults with activities to prepare them for post secondary education and career opportunities, and with workforce development skills to prepare them for today's changing economy.

    $547,818 spent
    40% of program spending

  3. Housing/economic enrichment: to provide a mechanism for individuals and families to acquire and protect assets, by providing the steps necessary to become skilled at managing their money and planning for long-term economic success, this allows for the acquisition and retention of home ownership.

    $539,683 spent
    39% of program spending

  4. Health and wellness

    $115,097 spent
    8% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,373,824.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($2.7M)2018 Revenue 99 ($1.7M) Expenses 107 ($2.0M) Net assets 87 ($2.4M)2019 Revenue 70 ($1.2M) Expenses 83 ($1.6M) Net assets 71 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 80 ($1.4M) Expenses 75 ($1.4M) Net assets 69 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 134 ($2.3M) Expenses 88 ($1.7M) Net assets 91 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 95 ($1.6M) Expenses 94 ($1.8M) Net assets 86 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 108 ($1.8M) Expenses 101 ($1.9M) Net assets 83 ($2.3M)2024 Revenue 125 ($2.1M) Expenses 114 ($2.2M) Net assets 82 ($2.3M)2025 Revenue 114 ($1.9M) Expenses 99 ($1.9M) Net assets 84 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (99)Net assets (84)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $3.5M to $3.1M (−10%).

$4.1M
$4.1M
$3.9M
$3.9M
$4.0M
$3.7M
$3.6M
$3.5M
$3.1M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 36% · 2018 35% · 2019 51% · 2022 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$199k
’17
−$352k
’18
−$373k
’19
−$55k
’20
$604k
’21
−$154k
’22
−$66k
’23
−$27k
’24
$46k
’25
1.7
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.

Chief executive

David J Hopkins

President and CEO

Board chair

We Alexander Jd

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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Listed121214141519191917
Joined·+0+6+0+11+7+0+0+14
No longer listed·0401030016
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $710k → $743k.

Funder
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'22
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'26*
total
National Urban League Incunclassified
$1.0M
Hd Holding Corporationunclassified
$40k
Hartford Hospitalunclassified
$15k
Wheeler Clinic Incunclassified
$10k
funders
12
9
6
10
14
14
14
16
5
1

7 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 HARTFORD INC’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 HARTFORD INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

87% 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 HARTFORD INC.

29%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 40% · 2019 40% · 2020 32% · 2021 36% · 2022 51% · 2023 20% — 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

44% of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER HARTFORD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

52% of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER HARTFORD INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

MN
NY
PA
CT
RI
MO
DE
NC

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

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER HARTFORD INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.

State$2.0M
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Top programs
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$2.0M
  • State Aid Grants$60k

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 HARTFORD INC

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 Connecticut

Urban League of Southern CT INC85%Leadership Greater Hartford Inc83%West Hartford Art League Inc83%United Way of Greater New Haven Inc82%The Legacy Foundation of Hartford82%United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut82%Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford81%Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective Inc81%

Nationally

The Urban League of Greater Atlanta Inc88%Urban League of Greater Madison Inc88%Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio Inc88%Buffalo Urban League Inc87%Urban League of Rochester Ny Inc86%Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh86%Urban League of Greater Philadelphia86%Urban League of the Upstate86%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 19%Fundraising 9%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Ulgh Development Corporation · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER HARTFORD INC: 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 HARTFORD INC?
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER HARTFORD INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,182,094 to it, the largest being HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ($1,783,215). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER HARTFORD INC have?
IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $6,182,094 in grants to URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER HARTFORD INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER HARTFORD INC?
HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $1,783,215 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER HARTFORD INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing