Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Urban Rural Action
Urban Rural Action (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $405,297 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($118,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $995k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $405k
- Net assets
- $95k
What Urban Rural Action does
Mission
The corporation is organized and shall be administred and operated, exclusively for charitable. Religious, scientific and educational purposes, including strengthening relationships between rural and urban communities and promoting constructive dialogue and joint community action to address social, economic, ecological and political challenges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
WI Program: The Uniting to Prevent Targeted Violence in Southeast Wisconsin program is a non-partisan civic participation program that brings Wisconsinites together across political, racial, generational, geographic, and other differences to address causes of targeted violence.
$467,755 spent51% of program spendingPA Program: Uniting for Safe and Strong Communities in South-Central Pennsylvania is a non-partisan civic participation program that brings together an ideologically, racially, generationally, and geographically diverse cohort of 25-30 Pennsylvania Uniters, residents of Adams, Dauphin, Franklin, and York counties, to build relationships, strengthen collaboration skills, explore different views on key issues, and work together with community organizations to address urgent challenges facing these communities.
$167,939 spent18% of program spendingOR Program: Uniting for Action on Housing and Homelessness in Southern Oregon is a non-partisan civic participation program that brings together residents of Douglas, Jackson, Josephine and Klamath counties to build relationships, strengthen collaboration skills, explore different views on key issues, and work together with community organizations to address issues of homelessness and affordable housing
$140,998 spent16% of program spendingWorkshops, AZ Program, Retreat
$132,040 spent$61,662 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $908,732.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $46k to $103k (+124%).
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: 2022 42% · 2023 68% · 2024 66% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Urban Rural Action’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Jon Kurtz
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $125k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 Rural Action’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 Rural Action leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 Rural Action.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 68% · 2022 49% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
70% of Urban Rural Action'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 $121k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $284k 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 Rural Action has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Urban Rural Action receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$1.6M
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 Rural Action
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Urban Rural Action: 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 Rural Action?
- Urban Rural Action (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $405,297 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($118,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Urban Rural Action have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $405,297 in grants to Urban Rural Action, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Urban Rural Action?
- ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $118,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Urban Rural Action find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 13 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