Missouri · Nonprofit
URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC
URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC (Missouri) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,933,523 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Urban Neighborhood Initiative Inc does
Mission
Unis mission is to partner with kansas citys urban core neighborhoods to bring business, government, and community organizations together to improve prosperity, health, safety & education in the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Purposed built communities-as part of unis focus on building healthy neighborhoods where all can succeed and thrive was initiated the phillips collective in partnership with wendell phillips neighborhood.uni has acquired options on over 100 vacant properties in the wendell phillips neighborhood, and has started the cradle-to-college education pipeline with the establishment of the kansas city neighborhood academy(kcna). Uni has also purchased two blocks of land which is directly east of the school. A rfp was recently issued which seeked a plan to develop mixed-income housing. Uni is also working with neighborhood association on health and wellness services for the community.
$769,139 spent37% of program spendingVacant to vibrant - works to reduce the number of vacant properties within the uni area, ensure that revitalization efforts build sustainable and equitable neighborhoods that are healthy, safe and attractive places to live and shared by people of all economic levels. Under this umbrella, uni managed three acton groups: clear titles green spaces,and promote equitable neighborhoods (pen). Clear titles worked to improve the notice process for properties which are going into tax sale. Green spaces facilitates a process to engage uni neighborhood residents to prioritize vacant lots which they would like to be transformed. Pen works to promote affordable housing stategies from kcmos housing policy recommendations while also engaging demonstration block residents to identify assets, describe their vision for the block and help to identify resources to make the vision real.
$1,280,432 spent62% of program spendingOther community events which uni hosts varies. Four (4) block parties were held to engage with residents and help them engage with one another, two (2) fairs were held to connect residents with resources may help them, volunteer/clean up days to beautify the community and canvassed to keep the residents informed of things which were going on in the community.
$3,717 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,053,288.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $2.7M (+125%).
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 4% · 2018 5% · 2020 6% · 2021 0% · 2023 22% · 2024 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% 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
Jamee Rodgers
CEO & president
Board chair
Libby Allman
Board member/chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $55k → $23k.
4 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $2.5M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Health Forward Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE 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 NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 40% · 2019 35% · 2020 49% · 2021 72% · 2022 67% · 2023 43% — 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
21% of URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $166k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.0M
- Environmental Protection Agency$40k
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 NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% 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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Urban Heritage Development · disregarded
- Urban Catalyst Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC?
- URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC (Missouri) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,933,523 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,933,523 in grants to URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC?
- THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION 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 NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 26 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