New Jersey · Nonprofit
URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES
URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES (New Jersey) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,930,803 to it, the largest being KARIN LARSON CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,430,651). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What Urbanpromise Ministries does
Mission
Urban promise ministries seeks to equip the children and teens of camden, nj with skills necessary for academic achievement, life management, spiritual growth, and christian leadership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Camdenforward school (k-8) and urbanpromise academy (9-12): private schools that provide approximately 150 students with quality education and unique extracurricular opportunities.
$3,005,159 spent59% of program spendingAfter school programs & summer camps: extended learning and recreational camps that provide safe, fun, and positive spaces for 300+ children ages 5 -14.
$971,872 spent19% of program spendingYouth employment programs: training and employment for up to 100 teens and young adults including academic enrichment and leadership development. Youth gain experience in the fields of education, community development, and environmental advocacy.
$700,324 spent14% of program spendingExperiential learning: hands-on and journey-based activities for 250+ youth and local residents including environmental science, leadership development, real-world applications of classroom learning (e.g. Boat building), and on-the-water paddling experiences. Wellness initiatives: engage all students and youth program participants in a variety of programs and activities that promote overall well-being. In addition, urbanpromise works with families to address emergency needs through our emergency family fund and by working closely with Urbanpromise Ministries community development on referring families to the community food co-op. Families are also connected with additional community resources on an as-needed basis.
$395,765 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,073,120.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $7.0M to $8.8M (+26%).
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 3% · 2021 9% · 2022 11% · 2023 1% · 2024 4%. 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.
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
Michael Byrne
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $203k → $2.7M.
18 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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 MINISTRIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
49% 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 MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 39% · 2019 22% · 2020 39% · 2021 30% · 2022 25% · 2023 16% — 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
68% of URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M 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.
Government funding URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $505k on record.
- FEDERAL$468k
- GRANT IN AID$35k
- STATE AID$1k
- TRUST FUND$519
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 URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Urbanpromise International · exempt
- Urbanpromise Community Development · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES: 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 MINISTRIES?
- URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES (New Jersey) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,930,803 to it, the largest being KARIN LARSON CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,430,651). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $10,930,803 in grants to URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES?
- KARIN LARSON CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,430,651 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 68 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