Alabama · Nonprofit
URBAN PURPOSE INC
URBAN PURPOSE INC (Alabama) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $386,134 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($238,019). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $176k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $386k
- Net assets
- $150k
What Urban Purpose Inc does
Mission
Urban purpose exists to build relationships with those in need throughout our city, surround them with safe people, and offer healthy options for them to utilize in the journey of rebuilding their lives.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Outreach & work/jobs program: provide healthy contexts with supervisors and co-workers who are committed to the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of men and women in vulnerable situations. Teach the value and reward of a hard days work. Hire additional crew leaders, which will give taproot and tabithas hands the ability to employ more people who truly desire to get back on their feet. Create one-day work opportunities to meet small financial needs like bus passes, phone cards, and drivers licenses. Evaluate someones responsibility level and work ethic through short- term employment opportunities before referring them to our long-term employment partners. Provide multiple long-term positions to those who show a genuine desire to remain in that particular field of work.
$3,940 spent3% of program spendingThe compound: host sit down meals for our homeless population so that they can enjoy the feeling of dinnertime with family. Bring people together for major sporting events like the super bowl, final 4, and the national championship. Host weekly hangout time with people who need healthy, safe, and consistent relationships. Provide mental healthcare services to the most vulnerable in our city. Equip the economically vulnerable with financial management skills through classes and mentorship. Provide fitness classes that promote healthy lifestyle changes for those who dont have the resources to prioritize their wellness.
$29,909 spent21% of program spendingSafe housing women: protect people from negative influences, isolation, and poor decision making. Surround those struggling with addiction with godly influences. Provide structure and accountability during that key waiting list period. Help them enter recovery with a strong mind and a clear outlook. Demonstrate our desire and willingness to walk with them beyond their time in a recovery program
Build relationships with the poor and needy in birmingham and help disciple them through the process of becoming christ-honoring, productive members of society.
$111,610 spent77% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $145,459.
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 2019 to 2020, from $125k to $200k (+59%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of URBAN PURPOSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $86k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 PURPOSE 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 PURPOSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 PURPOSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 34% · 2019 52% · 2020 80% · 2021 50% · 2022 94% · 2023 93% — 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
60% of URBAN PURPOSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
87% of URBAN PURPOSE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $52k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $334k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 PURPOSE INC is better cushioned than half of the 21,056 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,056 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like URBAN PURPOSE 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 PURPOSE INC?
- URBAN PURPOSE INC (Alabama) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $386,134 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($238,019). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does URBAN PURPOSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $386,134 in grants to URBAN PURPOSE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN PURPOSE INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $238,019 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN PURPOSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 8 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