North Carolina · Nonprofit
Winston-Salem Urban League
Winston-Salem Urban League (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,543,226 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($10,380,226). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $707k
What Winston-Salem Urban League does
Mission
Development of programs designed to reverse economic and social deterioration of minority families and elderly citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To further the Organizations mission of development of programs designed to reverse economic and social deterioration of minority families and elderly citizens.
$1,311,083 spent$9,300 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,311,083.
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 2021 to 2022, from $878k to $680k (−23%).
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 67% · 2020 84% · 2021 71% · 2022 87% · 2023 77% · 2024 87% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of Winston-Salem Urban League’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
James Perry
President and CEO
Board chair
Jessica Leach
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $1.6M.
Left out of every figure on this page: $789k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Forsyth County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Winston-Salem Urban League raised.
From the IRS filings of Winston-Salem Urban League’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Winston-Salem Urban League leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Winston-Salem Urban League.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 71% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
Winston-Salem Urban League draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Winston-Salem Urban League's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Winston-Salem Urban League
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Winston-Salem Urban League: 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 Winston-Salem Urban League?
- Winston-Salem Urban League (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,543,226 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($10,380,226). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Winston-Salem Urban League have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $10,543,226 in grants to Winston-Salem Urban League, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Winston-Salem Urban League?
- CWI WORKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,380,226 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Winston-Salem Urban League 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 5 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