Missouri · Nonprofit
URBAN STRATEGIES INC
URBAN STRATEGIES INC (Missouri) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,179,067 to it, the largest being THE MELVILLE CHARITABLE TRUST INC ($3,170,360). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Urban Strategies Inc does
Mission
To ensure that all children and families are stable and thriving.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Integrated service delivery:healthy living - limited access to health insurance and treatment for physical and mental health issues, as well as the lack of health education and prevention efforts, is a significant barrier for low-income families attempting to achieve self-sufficiency. The organization designs community health initiatives that are directly linked to key physical and mental health indicators. Anecdotal and quantitative data on the impact of healthy living on community vitality is often a basis for raising new funds to support healthy living initiatives.(continued on schedule o...)choice neighborhoods initiative "people" component - the u.s. Department of housing and urban development's choice neighborhood initiative requires that a plan and implementation strategy for community and supportive services be put in place to help residents of redeveloping neighborhoods make progress toward self-reliance. The organization works with public housing agencies across the country to creatively design and implement services that address the specialized needs of individuals and families and link them to a variety of relocation services. The organization also designs…
$16,815,627 spentof which $5,934 as grants$5,465,467 earned by the program90% of program spendingLeadership development & sustainability: capacity building - the organization provides technical support and assistance to other organizations in the communities where it works. The goal of this assistance is to help build the capacity of those smaller organizations to serve more residents and improve the quality of their programs, making the community more self-sustaining. Examples of such capacity-building projects include working with small social service not-for-profit organizations to help them increase the quality of their programs and working with a business enterprise started by a group of residents to help them scale that business up.(continued on schedule o...)community services liaisons - community services liaisons are the organization's social service specialists who support residents and neighborhoods across the country. Liaisons work with residents to develop community awareness and participation in activities on the property and within the larger community. They also assist residents in self-improvement, self-sufficiency and community building. The organization developed the community services liaison position to support the success of residents in new mixed-income…
$1,350,559 spent$1,267,921 earned by the program7% of program spendingPlanning:community planning and human capital development - the organization works with current and former residents, public housing authorities (pha), city government officials, community organizations, foundations and other stakeholders to facilitate community engagement processes around neighborhood conditions and human services needs. The process typically includes gathering data from existing sources, both formally and informally, surveying residents, assessing service and amenity needs, holding facility town hall meetings and facilitating focus groups with key stakeholders.(continued on schedule o...)through the community engagement process, stakeholders' priorities are identified, and the organization develops a human capital plan that is integrated with the planned physical revitalization based on the community's vision. Because the organization is mindful of the existing and authentic strengths of a community, its human capital plans focus on collaboration, building on community assets and strengthening capacity while avoiding duplication of services.early project development - the organization is sometimes engaged by one of the developers, municipalities and housing…
$505,576 spent$1,361,775 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,671,762.
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 $22M to $8.4M (−62%).
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 12% · 2018 15% · 2019 23% · 2020 32% · 2021 2% · 2022 15% · 2023 47% · 2024 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of URBAN STRATEGIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Richard D Baron
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $756k → $3.4M.
15 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 STRATEGIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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 STRATEGIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
43% 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 STRATEGIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 82% · 2019 25% · 2020 21% · 2021 42% · 2022 44% · 2023 43% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of URBAN STRATEGIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 STRATEGIES INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 STRATEGIES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding URBAN STRATEGIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.0M on record.
- Department of Education$15.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$7.0M
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 STRATEGIES 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN STRATEGIES INC: 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 STRATEGIES INC?
- URBAN STRATEGIES INC (Missouri) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,179,067 to it, the largest being THE MELVILLE CHARITABLE TRUST INC ($3,170,360). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN STRATEGIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $17,179,067 in grants to URBAN STRATEGIES INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN STRATEGIES INC?
- THE MELVILLE CHARITABLE TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,170,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN STRATEGIES 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.
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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 64 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