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New York · Nonprofit
URBAN ZEN FOUNDATION (New York) is funded by 10 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $206,000 in grants to it, the largest being THE RALPH AND RICKY LAUREN FAMILY ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
URBAN ZEN FOUNDATION's revenue fell 100% between 2017 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,247 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
88% of URBAN ZEN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (38% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
$26k from 1 funders in 2019, up from $93k and 8 in 2017.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 ZEN FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
URBAN ZEN FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 29% · 2019 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
URBAN ZEN FOUNDATION is locally rooted: 66% of its grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 10 funders put you under-funded among the 380 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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 10funders 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. view filing