Uptown United

Analysis

Uptown United is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover unknown, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Uptown United reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.0m, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $437k to $1.2m (+176%), an average of +29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Uptown United sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 81st percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sisters of Charity Hospital Foundation Inc ($1.2m), North Carolina Humanities Council ($1.2m) and Habitat for Humanity International Inc ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 80% and program service revenue 19% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $478k. At year end it held assets of $995k against liabilities of $368k, net assets of $627k. It reported 16 employees.