Georgia · Nonprofit
USHER'S NEW LOOK INC
USHER'S NEW LOOK INC (Georgia) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,962,902 to it, the largest being IBM INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ($500,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $749k
What Usher's New Look Inc does
Mission
Usher's new look, founded by usher raymond iv in 1999, is on a mission to transform the lives of underserved youth through a 10-year comprehensive program that develops passion-driven, global leaders. Unl's peer-to-peer program model and curriculum provides access, awareness and empowerment to youth in underserved communities, in order to guide them on a pathway to leadership and help them make educational and career choicers that match their passions. Today, unl has served over 50,000 youth across the u.s. And internationally.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Leadership academy - this four-year program exposes high school students to the tools and skill sets needed to achieve success after high school, while helping them identify careers that align with their spark passion. This curriculum is designed to provide students with the opportunity to experience each of unl's four pillars: talent, education, career and service. From sat prep to navigating the college financial aid process, students are provided with key opportunities to develop themselves academically while honing their leadership skills and serving their communities nationally. One hundred percent of our students graduate from high school, are prepared for higher learning, and can compete for jobs in a global, information-based economy with 21st century leadership skills.
$788,528 spent86% of program spendingMoguls in training - college and higher learning are major keys to securing success in today's competitive economy, so unl is working to ensure all college students from under-resourced backgrounds have the tools and support they need to finish school and begin their careers. Students meet virtually every month to discuss higher learning challenges and receive strategic resources. Sessions foster personal development, productive college matriculation, and transitioning into adulthood. Students also receive assistance from unl partners while seeking and securing internships. Maintaining the peer-to-peer model, the monthly sessions are led by a unl coordinator and industry experts who've developed unique, dynamic learning models which ensure success before, during, and after college.
Powered by service - the peer to peer workshop spans six hours and provides participants with engaging activities allowing them to discover core tenets of ushers new look. During the 6-hour, in-school, powered by service workshop, led by current and former unl academy leaders and moguls in training, students explore their individual sparks (I.e., talents, passions), articulate their personal brand (I.e., how they wish to be viewed by others); analyze the traits of well-known leaders; explore the root causes of local issues of concern to them (e.g., homelessness, bullying, substance abuse); explore principles and knowledge of financial literacy; and make a personal commitment to create and execute powered by service projects.
New look clubs - this is an expansion of our leadership academy, making the programming, resources, and opportunities of ushers new look available to high school youth across the country. Youth will have access to on-demand virtual sessions and follow-up activities that will help them develop leadership skills, take actionable steps towards their futures, embrace the power of being in service to their communities, and become a part of a larger community of disruptivators.
$132,068 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $920,596.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $524k (−60%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 3% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of USHER'S NEW LOOK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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
Usher Raymond Iv
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $227k → $486k.
11 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 USHER'S NEW LOOK INC’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
USHER'S NEW LOOK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
40% 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 USHER'S NEW LOOK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 60% · 2019 44% · 2020 61% · 2021 74% · 2022 40% · 2023 31% — 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
31% of USHER'S NEW LOOK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
USHER'S NEW LOOK INC draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $521k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
USHER'S NEW LOOK INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like USHER'S NEW LOOK 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 USHER'S NEW LOOK 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 USHER'S NEW LOOK INC?
- USHER'S NEW LOOK INC (Georgia) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,962,902 to it, the largest being IBM INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ($500,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does USHER'S NEW LOOK INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $2,962,902 in grants to USHER'S NEW LOOK INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of USHER'S NEW LOOK INC?
- IBM INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like USHER'S NEW LOOK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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