New York · Nonprofit
URBAN PATHWAYS INC
URBAN PATHWAYS INC (New York) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,860,308 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($1,908,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Urban Pathways Inc does
Mission
Urban pathways (up) is a non-profit, social service and supportive housing organization serving the city's homeless adults through outreach, assessment, shelter-based settings and transitional and permanent housing. Up's mission is to respond to the problems of the homeless by providing the opportunities, hope, and dignity which empower consumers to improve the circumstances of their lives, and to honor each person's right to achieve his/her place in society, including a decent place to live. The organization also provides leadership in addressing the causes of homelessness and developing comprehensive solutions. Ultimately, we help homeless men and women leave the streets and find permanent shelter, develop self-respect, and achieve independence and self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The residential programs, consisting of temporary congregant or shared apartment living, served over 793 clients. Over 47,713 meals were served and 21 individuals were placed in permanent housing or other transitional housing facilities
$23,106,858 spent$5,992,197 earned by the program55% of program spendingThe non- residential programs(consisting of street outreach and drop-in programs) served 1371 unique individuals this year. Two hundred and ninety-three (293) housing placements were made and 23,893 meals were served.
$18,540,765 spent45% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $41,647,623.
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 $36M to $56M (+56%).
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 74% · 2018 75% · 2019 75% · 2020 75% · 2021 75% · 2022 77% · 2023 77% · 2024 80% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of URBAN PATHWAYS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Frederick Shack
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $523k → $2.7M.
15 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 PATHWAYS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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 PATHWAYS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
41% 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 PATHWAYS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 48% · 2019 49% · 2020 23% · 2021 19% · 2022 23% · 2023 26% — 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
56% of URBAN PATHWAYS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
88% of URBAN PATHWAYS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 PATHWAYS INC has grown faster than half of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding URBAN PATHWAYS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.6M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$12.6M
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 PATHWAYS 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 New York
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 24 related entities
- Urban Pathways Hegman LLC · disregarded
- Westside Cluser 902-904 Amsterdam Ave Hdfc · exempt
- 1965 Belmont Avenue Hdfc · exempt
- Hallets Cove Urban Hdfc · exempt
- 1344 Clinton Ave Hdfc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds URBAN PATHWAYS INC?
- URBAN PATHWAYS INC (New York) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,860,308 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($1,908,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN PATHWAYS INC have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $10,860,308 in grants to URBAN PATHWAYS INC, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN PATHWAYS INC?
- ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,908,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN PATHWAYS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 66 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