North Carolina · Nonprofit
URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC
URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,941,897 to it, the largest being THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,000,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Urban Ministries of Wake County Inc does
Mission
Urban ministries of wake county engages our community to serve and advocate on behalf of those affected by poverty by providing food and nutrition, promoting health and wellness,and helping homeless women shelter and become housed. We operate wake county's second largest food pantry, largest free and charitable clinic with a fully licensed pharmacy, and largest program and shelters for adult single homeless women.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Medical services: the open-door clinic is a free and charitable clinic seeing patients with incomes <250% of the federal poverty level. Prescription medications, medication counseling, referrals for diagnostic and lab tests, and referrals to specialty care are provided at no cost to patients. Teleheatlh visits remain popular and patients are provided with blood pressure cuffs and diabetic testing supplies to encourage patient self-care. Patient education and case management of people with chronic health care conditions, outreach, nutritional counseling and on-site covid tests and vaccinations, and behavioral health screenings continue to be offered onsite and online.
$5,789,022 spentof which $4,483,825 as grants$155,751 earned by the program66% of program spendingCrisis support: the hunger and nutrition program continues our drive- through, serving an average of 85 families/day, 4 days/week. Additionally, we supported partner agencies by providing 160 additional food boxes to needy families identified by case managers. Food boxes contain 30 pounds of fresh meat, dairy, eggs, fresh product, and shelf-stable goods and are provided weekly to improve health and nutrition. All families report incomes <200% of the federal poverty level and/or <80% of the median household income for wake county.
$1,389,782 spentof which $1,076,232 as grants16% of program spendingHomeless programming and services: the helen wright center for women is the county's only low-barrier shelter for single adult homeless women. Specialized case managers assist women with health care, disability applications, housing placements, and other referrals to help our guests leave homelessness. A grant-supported workforce development program is offered, providing certificates for living-wage jobs to increase employment to better afford leases upon graduation. We have experienced great success moving our clients to housing due to wake county's bridge 2 home funding.
$1,563,678 spentof which $356,451 as grants$301,125 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,742,482.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $4.2M to $7.5M (+78%).
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: 2019 4% · 2020 10% · 2021 17% · 2022 13% · 2023 20% · 2024 21% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Donyell Jones
Exec dir eff
Board chair
Rob Chenoweth
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $113k → $1.0M.
13 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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 MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
78% 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 MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 15% · 2019 23% · 2020 15% · 2021 15% · 2022 27% · 2023 25% — broadly stable.
“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
54% of URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
94% of URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M 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 MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $306k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$306k
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 MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC?
- URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,941,897 to it, the largest being THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,000,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $4,941,897 in grants to URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC?
- THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 65 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