South Carolina · Nonprofit
URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE
URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE (South Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,174,249 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($957,437). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Urban League of the Upstate does
Mission
The league's mission is to advance equity by empowering black and other underserved communities through advocacy, education, and economic stability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We value education as a key component for living a healthier and more prosperous life. Our education and youth development programs provide young people with the critical skills they need to excel academically, avoid at- risk behavior, and become engaged members of their communities. Tutoring, college preparation, and leadership development are some of the many educational advancement tools offered.
$706,929 spentof which $104,826 as grants74% of program spendingWe are dedicated to building thriving communities through economic infrastructure. Our housing programs offer families long-term, sustainable solutions that focus on building assets through savings and homeownership. Our wealth accumulation services include financial literacy education, budgeting, credit counseling, homeownership, foreclosure prevention, and loan modification.
$248,264 spent26% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $955,193.
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 2024 to 2025, from $564k to $3.3M (+490%).
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 34% · 2018 36% · 2019 40% · 2020 46% · 2021 56% · 2022 34% · 2023 41% · 2024 78% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $129k → $299k.
3 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $1.2M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greenville County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE raised.
From the IRS filings of URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE’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 THE UPSTATE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 THE UPSTATE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 69% · 2019 68% · 2020 35% · 2021 54% · 2022 38% · 2023 41% — 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
29% of URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 THE UPSTATE draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 THE UPSTATE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 THE UPSTATE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$781k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$481k
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 THE UPSTATE
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 2 related entities
- Greenville Urban League Senior · exempt
- Urban League of the Upstate Senior · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: 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 THE UPSTATE?
- URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE (South Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,174,249 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($957,437). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,174,249 in grants to URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE?
- NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC is the largest funder on record, with $957,437 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 25 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