Missouri · Nonprofit
URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS
URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,713,632 to it, the largest being AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES ($13,115,260). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $56M
- Funders on record
- 121
- Grants received
- $45M
- Net assets
- $52M
What Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis does
Mission
To empower african americans and others throughout the st. Louis region in securing economic self-reliance, social equality and civil rights. The urban league implements its mission through advocacy, coalition building, program services, and by promoting communication and understanding among different races and cultures.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community empowerment the urban league will provide those needs that will stablize families so that empowered clients may focus on bettering themselves and their communities.
$8,553,907 spent21% of program spendingEconomic opportunity the urban league will educate and empower african americans and others to achieve economic self-sufficiency and wealth accrual by prioritizing ladders out of poverty programming.
$13,108,848 spent33% of program spendingEducation excellence the urban league will advocate for educational equality for african americans and others while providing programs that ensure early skills achievement, equal access to secondary educational opportunities and parental involvement.
$15,704,142 spent39% of program spendingProgram service expenses 2,485,201, grants and allocations 0, revenue 0 public safety and neighborhood stabilization purpose is to reduce crime and violence by connecting neighborhood residents with necessary services and viable resources.
$2,485,201 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,852,098.
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 2023 to 2024, from $64M to $81M (+28%).
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 68% · 2018 60% · 2019 67% · 2020 47% · 2021 51% · 2022 64% · 2023 74% · 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. 0 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.
Board chair
Michael L Moehn
Borad chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $417k → $7.0M.
17 of 121 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $19M from 14 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater St Louis Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS raised.
From the IRS filings of URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 121 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 METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
56% 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 METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 46% · 2019 51% · 2020 31% · 2021 20% · 2022 23% · 2023 28% — 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
42% of URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
80% of URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $116.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$112.0M
- Department of Commerce$2.7M
- Small Business Administration$1.1M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$750k
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 METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS
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 Missouri
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
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 1 related entity
- Urban League Community Development Enterprises · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: 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 METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS?
- URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,713,632 to it, the largest being AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES ($13,115,260). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 121 organizations giving $44,713,632 in grants to URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS?
- AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES is the largest funder on record, with $13,115,260 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 121 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