Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,391,240 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($12,462,850). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh does
Mission
The mission of the urban league movement is to enable african americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity and power, and civil rights.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing - designed to help stabilize the current housing situation through programs aimed at preventing homelessness including housing counseling, budgeting, assistance, tenant landlord relations, and hunger relief services. Served 1,876 clients.
$799,530 spentof which $71,997 as grants21% of program spendingCenter for economic self reliance - ensures that everyone has equal access to successful employment opportunities for financial self-sufficiency and security designed for a diverse workforce with varying needs including financial education. Served 365 clients.
$1,147,741 spentof which $10,750 as grants30% of program spendingFamily growth & child development - empowers parents to advocate for their children to achieve their own educational and financial goals. Designed by participants, based on relationships, respectful of different cultures. Served 5,943 clients.
$847,652 spentof which $93 as grants22% of program spendingAfrican american leadership development - provides innovative and effective out of school learning programs designed to inspire, encourage, lead, and cultivate young youth to excel academically. Served 567 clients.eden hall tech fundstaff developmentone pittsburgh nowurban tehc jobs/stem
$977,833 spentof which $2,127 as grants26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,772,756.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $5.0M to $11M (+117%).
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 55% · 2018 71% · 2019 59% · 2020 71% · 2021 54% · 2022 63% · 2023 29% · 2024 33% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Carlos T Carter
President & CEO
Board chair
Bryan Iams
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $8.7M.
11 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 PITTSBURGH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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 PITTSBURGH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 PITTSBURGH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 71% · 2019 79% · 2020 62% · 2021 76% · 2022 62% · 2023 69% — 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
48% of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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 PITTSBURGH draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 PITTSBURGH holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
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 PITTSBURGH
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 PITTSBURGH: 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 PITTSBURGH?
- URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,391,240 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($12,462,850). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $24,391,240 in grants to URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH?
- NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,462,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH 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 43 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