Louisiana · Nonprofit
URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA
URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA (Louisiana) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,950,203 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($6,019,877). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Urban League of Louisiana does
Mission
To empower communities and help change liver for african americans and other emerging communities and groups. The urban league seeks to eliminate barriers to opportunity and assist individuals in attaining economic self sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Urban league workforce development the workforce development programs serve as one of the organization's economic engines, providing individuals with the tools they need to thrive in today's workforce and helping to grow louisiana's pool of qualified workers. The workforce development team serves unemployed and underemployed career seekers ages 16 and above residing in metro new orleans, east baton rouge, shreveport, and monroe. In 2025, the workforce development team continued its service delivery model, which includes pre-apprenticeships aligned with apprenticeships that guarantee employment opportunities leading to self-sustainability. Apprenticeships include paid career- readiness training for professional development integrated with job shadowing, employer engagement, and direct employment pathways. Additional supports include continuous case management, career coaching, tuition assistance, behind-the-business tours, financial literacy, customized career and resource expos, occupational skills training, and direct employment placement. This year, 506 adult and youth career seekers enrolled and received workforce services through the urban league's skillup louisiana…
$1,004,575 spent$381,509 earned by the program25% of program spendingUrban league entrepreneurship & innovation the entrepreneurship & innovation program provides business education workshops, one-on-one and small group counseling, hands-on technical assistance, and access to resources relevant to aspiring and existing entrepreneurs across various industries. Services are delivered through the women's business resource center, contractor's resource center, and small business support services center. In 2025, 293 clients were counseled and received 2,750 counseling hours. The program provided 128 trainings serving 2,249 attendees, supported the creation of 31 new businesses, and supported 802 jobs. Additionally, the entrepreneurship & innovation team facilitated 57 capital infusion transactions totaling 21.4 million. Key initiatives included start up louisiana, a 9-week online entrepreneurship accelerator focused on launching sustainable businesses; scale up louisiana, which launched its 10th cohort supporting scalable early-stage firms; connect to capital louisiana, a small business capital readiness initiative sponsored by louisiana economic development; walmart women in retail accelerator program, supporting 15 women-owned retail businesses…
$803,660 spent20% of program spendingUrban league clarence l. Barney head start center (ulclbhs) the Urban League of Louisiana clarence l. Barney head start center (ulclbhs), located in the desire neighborhood in the upper 9th ward of new orleans, continues to provide high-quality early childhood education and family support services to 58 children from birth to five years old. This includes service to 12% of children with disabilities. School readiness, child safety, maintaining good health, and family support remain key focus areas. In 2025, 83% of children met or exceeded developmental milestones across social-emotional, physical, language, cognitive, literacy, and mathematics domains; 100% of children completed speech, vision, and hearing screenings; 80% of preschool graduates were kindergarten ready; 100% of children with verified disabilities received services during the school day; and 18,774 nutritious meals were served. Additionally, 100% of families participated in the social services family outcomes process; 61% of heads of household were working or enrolled in school; families received 18 hours of afterschool literacy programming and resources; and 114 hours of home visits and parent/teacher conferences…
$442,013 spent11% of program spendingUrban league parent information center (pic) the urban league's family information and resource initiatives empower parents to become successful advocates for excellent schools, educate parents about educational options, and equip parents to become leaders within their communities. Programs and resources include the parents ready to be involved to deliver excellence (p.r.I.d.e.) leadership academy, parent charter board member training, the new orleans guide to high schools and beyond, the new orleans guide to early childhood education website and app, and the stay connected newsletter. In 2025, 6,532 community members were served or engaged through family information and resource initiatives; 1,730 students and parents accessed the new orleans guide to high schools and beyond and early childhood education websites; and 26 participants completed the 12-week p.r.I.d.e. Unhoused/in transition cohort training, which included parenting, behavioral health, and digital literacy sessions with supportive services including childcare, stipends, transportation assistance, and meals. Urban league project ready project ready prepares students at scotlandville magnet high school in baton rouge…
$1,788,302 spent44% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,038,550.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $9.5M to $13M (+42%).
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: 2018 31% · 2019 16% · 2020 54% · 2021 26% · 2022 35% · 2023 15% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA’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 7 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.
Board chair
Jade Brown Russell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $8.7M.
10 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.
From the IRS filings of URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA’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 LOUISIANA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
74% 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 LOUISIANA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 33% · 2019 33% · 2020 20% · 2021 32% · 2022 37% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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 LOUISIANA draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 LOUISIANA is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.
- Small Business Administration$2.1M
- Department of Labor$1.2M
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 LOUISIANA
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA?
- URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA (Louisiana) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,950,203 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($6,019,877). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $24,950,203 in grants to URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA?
- NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,019,877 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2018–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing