Minnesota · Nonprofit
URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES
URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,967,490 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($1,913,924). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Urban League Twin Cities does
Mission
The Organization provides platforms, pathways, and programs for African descendants to dismantle racist structures, overcome racial disparities, and achieve equitable outcomes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
EDUCATION: The Black Gems (BG) program is a high school college and career readiness program focusing on social and emotional learning (SEL) to planfully prepare students for their transition to various post high school options. Participants engage students from a variety of schools and receive life skills training, financial literacy, SEL topics such as peer pressure, developing a support system, and coping through transitions, help with college applications and essays and a springtime tour of HBCU's and civil rights sites.
$505,885 spent$86,057 earned by the program32% of program spendingWORFORCE DEVELOPMENT: ULTC's Workforce Development programs offer job training, assessment and placement for people who are entering the workforce for the first time or re-entering after an absence. We focus on jobs that offer family sustaining wages in high growth sectors including building trades, IT, trucking, and warehouse operations. Over the past year, we have provided Workforce training and support service to 120 job seekers. A total of 255 people participated in our Urban Tech program and received specialized training. A total of 75 Workforce program participants were placed in full - time employment.
$526,311 spent$240,818 earned by the program33% of program spendingULTC WEALTH DEVELOPMENT: ULTC housing programs serve the full spectrum of clients from the unhoused to renters to first-time homebuyers. Our HUD certified housing counsellors help clients to create a budget and savings plan to help them control their spending, reduce debt, build credit and set a goal of homeownership. A total of 89 people were served through our Wealth Development programs. 42 participated in our home ownership preparation classes over the course of the year. 13 of those participants reported that we assisted with helping to decrease debt, increase savings and/or increase their credit score. 8 participants were provided with homeless assistance and 22 were helped with overcoming barriers such as security deposits, first month's rent, and debts to previous landlords. Four went on to purchase their first homes. In partnership with City of Lakes community Land Trust, ULTC has launched the African American Community Land Trust (AACLT) Twin Cities. The project will provide a mechanism for home ownership and equity sharing for low-income persons and preserve affordability through shared equity. A two-year pilot, the AACLT will support 10 new land trust homeowners with…
$320,592 spent$83,100 earned by the program20% of program spendingFACILITY LEASE AND RENTAL SERVICE: ULTC has both multi-year and monthly rental tenants in its headquarters office located in North Minneapolis. Tenants include non-profit organizations and small businesses. In addition, ULTC provides short-term rentals of its public spaces for meetings and events. Examples of short-term rentals include birthday and graduation celebrations, community meetings, public hearings and listening sessions, corporate volunteer events, and venue for tax preparation services for low-income persons.
$232,310 spent$134,384 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,585,098.
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. 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 $3.5M to $2.5M (−26%).
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% · 2020 20% · 2021 35% · 2022 25% · 2023 4% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Marquita Stephens
President/CEO
Board chair
Makram El-Amin
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 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 5 funders to 19 funders, grant income fell $962k → $792k.
12 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 TWIN CITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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 TWIN CITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 TWIN CITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 64% · 2019 66% · 2020 33% · 2021 34% · 2022 47% · 2023 33% — 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 TWIN CITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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 TWIN CITIES draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $581k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 TWIN CITIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 TWIN CITIES: 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 TWIN CITIES?
- URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,967,490 to it, the largest being NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ($1,913,924). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $4,967,490 in grants to URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES?
- NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,913,924 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 50 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