Wisconsin · Nonprofit
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,156,561 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,300,473). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Urban League of Greater Madison Inc does
Mission
The mission of the urban league of greater madison is to ensure that african americans and other community members are educated, employed and empowered to live well, advance professionally and contribute to the common good in the 21st century.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The urban league black business hub & black business hub accelerator program provides both space and an ecosystem of programming aimed at incubating, accelerating, and networking small businesses owned/founded by people of color and other underserved individuals. The hub is an approximately 80,000 square foot building located in an economically distressed area in the heart of madison's oldest multicultural neighborhood. Construction on the building began in april of 2022. The base building was substantially completed in july of 2023 and leasing of tenant spaces beginning that fall and expected to continue over the next 2 to 3 years. The building includes spaces for market-rent paying tenants that are aligned to the building's nonprofit mission of supporting underserved small businesses, discounted retail and office suites for under-served small businesses, meeting and training spaces for small business development classes, coworking spaces for startups and other emerging entrepreneurs, a rentable commercial kitchen for emerging food businesses, and more. Mission aligned tenants that completed their buildouts and occupied by the end of 2023 included wisconsin economic development…
$1,561,130 spentof which $152,500 as grants38% of program spendingLearn - the urban league of greater madison's education and youth development framework is comprised of programs, advocacy, partnerships, and community engagement activities that are focused on ensuring that children in greater madison secure the education necessary to thrive in a technology-driven knowledge economy defined by creativity, service, and innovation. The programmatic component of our framework includes initiatives that enhance and support students' core learning experiences in the classroom. In particular, these initiatives focus on serving secondary school age youth through out-of-school time learning and enrichment programs, academic tutoring/coaching programs, career and college exploration programs, cultural enrichment and leadership development programs, and youth employment and internship programs. Our 2023 programs included: the schools of hope middle school academic tutoring program (701 youth served); the 21st century careers college, career, and employment readiness program (155 youth served); the martin luther king, jr. Youth day of service (115 youth served); the martin luther king, jr. Outstanding young person and scholarship awards breakfast (271…
$1,026,604 spentof which $53,863 as grants25% of program spendingWork - our current array of adult career pathway training and coaching services includes work readiness assessments; individualized employment planning and career advising; individualized foundational job preparation training; short-term, employer-focused, career-pathway training academies in health care administration, customer service and sales, information technology, construction trades, and food service; special support and fatherhood development programming for non-custodial fathers; individualized and group job search and job placement assistance: job retention and advancement coaching and case management; engagement of employers through both a local and national network; featured employer seminars; and leadership on region-wide workforce diversity initiatives. In 2023, 502 adult job seekers received career counseling, job training, job placement, job coaching, and/or job retention services. In addition, 478 business and community leaders were served through our economic development & diversity summit, and dozens of other businesses received support through our featured employer events and other candidate referral activities. Our industry and employer-specific training…
$986,574 spent24% of program spendingIn 2023, ulgm provided financial empowerment education and pre-and post-purchase homeownership group training and individualized coaching to 134 low and moderate income individuals. Ulgm also completed the process to become a hud-approved training and counseling agency.
$529,481 spent13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,103,789.
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 2021 to 2022, from $15M to $30M (+108%).
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 51% · 2018 46% · 2019 25% · 2020 20% · 2021 18% · 2022 19% · 2023 45% · 2024 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Ruben L Anthony Jr
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $163k → $7.3M.
13 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.3M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Dane County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC raised.
From the IRS filings of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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 MADISON INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
63% 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 MADISON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 63% · 2019 26% · 2020 25% · 2021 49% · 2022 21% · 2023 41% — 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
54% of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
76% of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 MADISON INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.0M
- Small Business Administration$500k
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 MADISON 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Ulgmced LLC · disregarded
- Umoja Magazine - Madison Inc · exempt
- Ulgm Community & Economic Development Corp · exempt
- Ulgm Real Estate Holdings Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC?
- URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,156,561 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,300,473). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $14,156,561 in grants to URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,300,473 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 56 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