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URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION

URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 128 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,605,237 to it, the largest being WEM FOUNDATION ($4,860,000). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6.9M
Revenue FY2025
128
Funders on record
$20M
Grants received
$28M
Net assets
78/128 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.3M) Expenses 100 ($5.1M) Net assets 100 ($16M)2018 Revenue 83 ($4.4M) Expenses 94 ($4.8M) Net assets 97 ($16M)2019 Revenue 146 ($7.7M) Expenses 93 ($4.8M) Net assets 115 ($19M)2020 Revenue 137 ($7.2M) Expenses 88 ($4.5M) Net assets 132 ($21M)2021 Revenue 123 ($6.5M) Expenses 88 ($4.5M) Net assets 144 ($23M)2022 Revenue 83 ($4.4M) Expenses 98 ($5.0M) Net assets 136 ($22M)2023 Revenue 207 ($11M) Expenses 120 ($6.2M) Net assets 169 ($27M)2024 Revenue 168 ($8.9M) Expenses 144 ($7.4M) Net assets 181 ($29M)2025 Revenue 130 ($6.9M) Expenses 157 ($8.1M) Net assets 177 ($28M)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (157)Net assets (177)

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 10% · 2022 4% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$171k
17
$449k
18
$2.9M
19
$2.7M
20
$2.0M
21
$585k
22
$4.8M
23
$1.5M
24
$1.2M
25
4.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $374k → $6.7M.

20 of 128 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $846k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Uvlf Opportunities Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 128 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 VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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

25%
largest funder
45%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 15% · 2019 24% · 2020 28% · 2021 20% · 2022 24% · 2023 68%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

40% of URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

89% of URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
SD
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
DE
AZ
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 128 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $38k on record.

Federal$38k
grants $38kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$38k

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 VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Minnesota

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 16%Fundraising 6%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

74%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION?
URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 128 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,605,237 to it, the largest being WEM FOUNDATION ($4,860,000). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 128 organizations giving $19,605,237 in grants to URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION?
WEM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,860,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 128funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing