Oklahoma · Nonprofit
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,091,571 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($2,686,139). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City Inc does
Mission
The urban league of greater oklahoma city's (ulokc) mission is to assist african americans, other minorities, and the poor to achieve social and economic equality. Its core mission is focused on education and economic mobility through direct services for people of color. For 76 years, the ulokc continues to be the premier social service agency and subject-matter expert in the african american community providing affordable housing, minority business support, workforce development, and education services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education and family development (efd): the efd programs offer an academically enriched learning environment where students from kindergarten through 6th grade can feel safe, welcomed, and comfortable to network with their peers. Our core strengths include education and professional staff who work in our afterschool program and our commitment to supporting and connecting families with the resources they need to thrive. The program is especially good at assessing our community's needs and adjusting service delivery to meet their needs effectively. The efd program incorporates the science of the hope center's model to provide support, resources, and services to improve outcomes for oklahoma children and families.
$459,440 spent$55,012 earned by the program21% of program spendingThe urban league workforce and career development (wfcd) program empowers african-americans and others in underserved communities to achieve their highest earning potential and secure economic self-reliance. Wfcd has a long successful record of disrupting poverty in oklahoma's african american community. The wfcd career coaches understand that typically when people come to the urban league, they struggle to meet basic needs and are often confronted with daily emotional and social challenges that create barriers to employment. The wfcd program is employment-focused and exceptionally well at providing supportive services to remove client obstacles to employment.
$596,316 spentof which $14,400 as grants$55,012 earned by the program27% of program spendingCommunity convening and social justice (ccsj) hosts the largest expungement expo and records restriction initiatives in the state of oklahoma. Ccsj is a records restriction initiative in the state that connects clients to inter-agency workforce programs, job placement programs, and housing initiatives. The program's core strengths stem from our ability to build long-term community relationships to connect our services for clients' success.
$287,369 spentof which $28,554 as grants$2,394 earned by the program13% of program spendingHousing and financial literacy
$890,112 spent$473,747 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,233,237.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.5M to $5.1M (+43%).
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 22% · 2021 49% · 2022 33% · 2023 50% · 2024 42% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Dr Valerie Thompson
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $274k → $1.1M.
5 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 OKLAHOMA CITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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 OKLAHOMA CITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 OKLAHOMA CITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 85% · 2019 45% · 2020 21% · 2021 28% · 2022 90% · 2023 47% — 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
57% of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 OKLAHOMA CITY INC draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $547k 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.
Against its field
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 2 related entities
- Urban League Capitol Square LLC · disregarded
- Urban League Mount Olive LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC?
- URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,091,571 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($2,686,139). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $5,091,571 in grants to URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC?
- NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,686,139 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 28 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