Wisconsin · Nonprofit
URBAN LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC
URBAN LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,300 to it, the largest being URBAN DAY SCHOOL INC ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $239k
- Net assets
- $443k
What Urban Learning Collaborative Inc does
Mission
We invest in urban communities by expanding access to academic, personal and professional growth opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Milwaukee environmental sciences academy (mesa) served over 250 students in grades k4-8th through its milwaukee public schoolsteacher certification and professional learning services: non-instrumentality charter school.
$3,498,048 spent91% of program spendingTeacher certification and professional learning services:certification: become a teacher with ulc. Ulc's model of personalized coaching-into-practice aligned to teaching standards lies at the core of certification programs and professional learning services. Whether individuals are seeking initial licensure or veteran teachers seeking to further their career, ulc provides a highly qualified mentor to guide and support professional growth.professional development: develop with ulc. Ulc's professional learning services are dedicated to addressing the evolving professional development needs of schools and educators. Built on a foundation of research-based strategies and real-world insights, programs are designed to inspire excellence, foster growth, and create lasting change in the classroom and beyond.
$332,694 spent$194,020 earned by the program9% of program spendingStudent fees
$6,007 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,830,742.
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 $1.8M to $762k (−58%).
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 0% · 2020 10% · 2021 16% · 2022 34% · 2023 34% · 2024 32% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of URBAN LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Laci Coppins Robbins Edd
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $48k → $28k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC’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 LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
82% 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 LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2019 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 83% · 2022 93% · 2023 89% — 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
25% of URBAN LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 21% 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
71% of URBAN LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $239k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like URBAN LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC: 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 LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC?
- URBAN LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,300 to it, the largest being URBAN DAY SCHOOL INC ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $239,300 in grants to URBAN LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC?
- URBAN DAY SCHOOL INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 14 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