Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,605,410 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($4,593,976). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What Urban League of Greater Philadelphia does
Mission
The mission of the urban league is to empower disadvantaged, underresourced and marginalized communities to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our career services and workforce development department connects greater philadelphia residents to economic opportunity through a comprehensive suite of programs and services. From our in-house career center and community resource newsletter to industry-specific training, job fairs, and employer spotlight events, we meet jobseekers where they are. The individuals we serve span a wide range - from the unemployed and underemployed to working professionals seeking advancement into management. Our services include individual career consultations, career aptitude assessments, job posting access, seminars, and hands-on workforce training.career training remains at the core of our mission. In 2025, we supported 167 men and women in securing employment, with an average hourly wage of $16.70. Our signature initiative, ready2work - a workforce bootcamp designed to equip emerging professionals ages 1834 with the skills and confidence to compete in today's job market - served 84 participants, with 77 completing the program. Our summer internship program placed 81 college students in meaningful, 21st-century workplace experiences, setting them on a stronger path toward post-graduation…
$934,738 spent$575,516 earned by the program12% of program spendingOur housing department assists individuals by providing housing counseling for those facing foreclosure, sheriff's sales, and predatory lending. Our homeowner education program provides multiple free workshops for potential first-time homebuyers, giving them a wealth of knowledge as they aim to build wealth through achieving the american dream of homeownership. We counseled individuals on fair housing rights information, real estate selection, lending practices, money management, budgeting, credit repair, and broker selection. Escrow counseling is also available for clients living in substandard housing with licensing and inspection violations. Our hud-certified housing counselors provided financial literacy to 3,450 families and 1,310 received personalized homebuyer counseling. 900 families achieved homeownership, with a total market value of over $185 million. 125 homeowners received counseling and foreclosure mediation services, and 401 renters connected with comprehensive resources to avoid evictions.
$2,309,816 spent29% of program spendingOur youth programs continue to experience rapid growth, and we are actively integrating stem and skills-based technology across the breadth of our initiatives to ensure that elementary, middle, and high school students have the opportunity to join the digital economy. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, we continue to prepare the next generation for emerging opportunities. With an emphasis on stem, college and career preparation and exposure, and 21st century skills, our youth programs reached and supported over 893 young people as they continue developing into future leaders. To offset the rising costs of higher education, 31 college-bound seniors were awarded $175,000 in scholarships, coupled with ongoing assistance to support with the transition to post-secondary pursuits.
$4,678,312 spentof which $137,250 as grants$209,810 earned by the program59% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,922,866.
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 $6.2M to $2.9M (−53%).
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 97% · 2018 95% · 2019 95% · 2020 19% · 2021 32% · 2022 57% · 2023 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Darrin W Anderson Sr Phd
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $663k → $6.1M.
12 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 PHILADELPHIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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 PHILADELPHIA 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
66% 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 PHILADELPHIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 82% · 2019 60% · 2020 35% · 2021 25% · 2022 26% · 2023 58% — 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 PHILADELPHIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 PHILADELPHIA draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 PHILADELPHIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.3M
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 PHILADELPHIA
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 1 related entity
- Ulp Community Impact Financing LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA?
- URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,605,410 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($4,593,976). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $19,605,410 in grants to URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA?
- NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,593,976 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 45 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