California · Nonprofit
Urban League of San Diego County
Urban League of San Diego County (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,179,671 to it, the largest being UNIDOSUS ($2,868,895). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Urban League of San Diego County does
Mission
Assist African Americans and other underserved people in San Diego County to acheive social and economic equality through advocacy, bridge building, program services and research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Employment Training - The Training Center prepares Clients for careers with entry-level and mid-level employment opportunities. In addition to the training programs, the Employment Dept offers placement services through our Diversity Job Bank for high-end employment possibilities and provides placement assistance through job matching. Approximately 8,000 people served annually.
Education, Youth, Family Health Services program has helped individuals and families realize their goals and achieve self -sufficiency. EYFS programs offer Read and Rise, Campaign for African -American Achievement, Youth Leadership, Career College Club Netwrk, Golden Pyramid Scholars/Achivement Matters Awards where over 300 students with GPAs of 3.0 or higher have been awarded certificates and scholarships signifying academic excellence and educational achievement at huge ceremonies with record attendance of 1200 plus people.
$369,990 spent$370,201 earned by the program30% of program spendingHousing Community Development-Affordable housing and community revitalization. Affordable housing for low to moderate income families 9 families, financial literacy workshops 275 people, first time homebuyer seminars 200 people.
$853,455 spent70% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,223,445.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $1.8M (+71%).
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 50% · 2018 55% · 2019 57% · 2020 75% · 2021 26% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Abdallah Alshams
President and CEO
Board chair
Larry Reed
Board Chair
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 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $190k → $1.3M.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 San Diego County’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 San Diego County leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 San Diego County.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2019 86% · 2020 53% · 2021 25% · 2022 54% · 2023 36% — 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
56% of Urban League of San Diego County's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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 San Diego County draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $804k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 San Diego County receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$150k
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 San Diego County
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 San Diego County: 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 San Diego County?
- Urban League of San Diego County (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,179,671 to it, the largest being UNIDOSUS ($2,868,895). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Urban League of San Diego County have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $6,179,671 in grants to Urban League of San Diego County, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Urban League of San Diego County?
- UNIDOSUS is the largest funder on record, with $2,868,895 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Urban League of San Diego County find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 22 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