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URBAN PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

URBAN PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.8M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$1.0M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Urban Partnerships Community Development Corporation does

Mission

To catalyze commerce and economic development to benefit low and moderate income residents of houston's culturally unique and historical central neighborhoods through job growth initiatives, cultural and arts promotion, and real estate development and management.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Up cdc will develop real estate project to benefit low and moderate income individuals by creating a stable environment for small businesses to rent space in an environment where rising real estate prices are forcing employers out of low and moderate income neighborhoods. These spaces will be offered below market to companies that have committed to hire from the community. The first such project is the east end innovation maker hub. Up cdc is partnering with txrx labs, a 501(c)(3), and the greater east end management district, a municipal business improvement district. In 2020 construction commenced on the east end maker hub and reached 90% by year end.continued on schedule oits capstone project, and new headquarters, is the east end maker hub, located in an economically distressed, low-income community in houston. East end maker hub is redefining entrepreneurship in houston, by providing equitable access to affordable workspace for local manufacturers, fabricators, crafters, innovators, artisans and artists. After opening in february of 2021, as of september 2021, the project is 80% leased 18 months ahead of schedule, having added 40 companies projecting to hire over 500…

    $1,046,233 spent$1,105,504 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,046,233.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($83k) Expenses 100 ($72k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2018 Revenue 373 ($308k) Expenses 383 ($278k) Net assets 370 ($38k)2019 Revenue 854 ($705k) Expenses 362 ($263k) Net assets 4734 ($480k)2020 Revenue 3684 ($3.0M) Expenses 850 ($616k) Net assets 28588 ($2.9M)2021 Revenue 6054 ($5.0M) Expenses 3187 ($2.3M) Net assets 13667 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 1553 ($1.3M) Expenses 2991 ($2.2M) Net assets 5111 ($518k)2023 Revenue 1490 ($1.2M) Expenses 1639 ($1.2M) Net assets 5540 ($562k)2024 Revenue 2236 ($1.8M) Expenses 1909 ($1.4M) Net assets 10118 ($1.0M)
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Revenue (2236)Expenses (1909)Net assets (10118)Peer revenue range

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 $14M to $32M (+132%).

$28k
$175k
$542k
$7.7M
$13M
$14M
$32M
$35M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 7% · 2020 66% · 2021 53% · 2022 28% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

40% of URBAN PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
$30k
’18
$443k
’19
$2.4M
’20
$2.7M
’21
−$884k
’22
$44k
’23
$464k
’24
0.0
months of
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.

Board chair

Patrick Ezzell

Chairman/president

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed5558999
Joined·+0+0+3+2+2+1
No longer listed·000121
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of URBAN PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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.

Where its funders are

URBAN PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

URBAN PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)56% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding URBAN PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.0M on record.

Federal$5.0M
grants $5.0Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Commerce$5.0M

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 PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 18%Fundraising 7%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Up Commercial Real Estate LLC · disregarded
  • Transmit Receive Labs Inc · exempt
  • East End Maker Hub Sponsor LLC · partnership
  • Seaside Lodge Gc Joint Venture · partnership
  • Upcdc Scott Street LLC · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: 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 PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
URBAN PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does URBAN PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to URBAN PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Who is the largest funder of URBAN PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like URBAN PARTNERSHIPS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 1 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