North Carolina · Nonprofit
UrbanPromise Charlotte
UrbanPromise Charlotte (North Carolina) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,198,127 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($908,432). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What UrbanPromise Charlotte does
Mission
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
StreetLeader Program: Through our unique StreetLeader Program, UrbanPromise employs low-income high school students as counselors, tutors, and mentors for the children who attend our afterschool and summer programs. The heart of the StreetLeader Program is challenging teens to use their influence to make positive changes in the lives of children, in their own lives, and throughout their communities. The StreetLeader Program employs approximately 140 teenagers. For most of our StreetLeaders, this is their first job, and they receive extensive training and on-the-job mentoring. Once in the StreetLeader Program, teens have the opportunity to take-on expanded responsibilities and develop leadership skills as peer leaders. In addition to leading the younger students during afterschool and summer programs, StreetLeaders also participate in year-round leadership and academic development led by UrbanPromise staff. This development includes leadership training, SAT tutoring, college advising and preparation, and one-on-one adult mentorship. With the StreetLeader Programs focus on achievement, 100% of our first eleven classes of senior StreetLeaders graduated high school on-time and…
$1,401,305 spent52% of program spendingAfterSchool Program: UrbanPromise AfterSchool Programs provide opportunities for elementary and middle school students to improve their academic performance, develop necessary life skills, create positive relationships with caring adults, explore the arts, and nurture their faith. Approximately 340 elementary and middle school students participate in UrbanPromises AfterSchool Programs rooted in four of Charlottes lowest-income neighborhoods in west, southwest, north, and east Charlotte.
$747,864 spent28% of program spendingSummer Camp: UrbanPromise Summer Camps fill the learning-gap between semesters and provide elementary school students with six-weeks of focused academic instruction, spiritual support, and abiding relationships. Literacy instruction throughout the year is led by certified Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teachers. During the summer, literacy instruction is designed to combat the summer learning loss students from low-income families often experience. During our last eleven summer programs, UrbanPromise students made an average of 3+ months of reading growth during our six-week program.
$566,943 spent21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,716,112.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.3M to $3.7M (+195%).
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.
100% of UrbanPromise Charlotte’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Brisa Urquieta de Hernandez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $142k → $1.1M.
12 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 UrbanPromise Charlotte’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
UrbanPromise Charlotte has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% 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 UrbanPromise Charlotte.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 39% · 2019 28% · 2020 26% · 2021 25% · 2022 28% · 2023 22% — 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
58% of UrbanPromise Charlotte's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
56% of UrbanPromise Charlotte'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 $2.3M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
UrbanPromise Charlotte runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UrbanPromise Charlotte
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 UrbanPromise Charlotte: 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 UrbanPromise Charlotte?
- UrbanPromise Charlotte (North Carolina) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,198,127 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($908,432). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UrbanPromise Charlotte have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $5,198,127 in grants to UrbanPromise Charlotte, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UrbanPromise Charlotte?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $908,432 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UrbanPromise Charlotte find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 36 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