Fort Wayne Urban League Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 350869052
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Fort Wayne, IN, USA
- Phone
- 2607453100
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $893,061
- Expenses
- $735,950
- Assets
- $1,685,098
- Liabilities
- $183,005
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AISHA ARRINGTON (PRESIDENT &)
Highest reported compensation
- AISHA ARRINGTON (PRESIDENT &): $102,350 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advance social equity and economic self-reliance for african americans and others in underserved communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
During the year, the fort wayne urban league continued to advance its mission through programs and partnerships designed to strengthen families, empower youth, support seniors, and expand access to community resources. Key accomplishments included: senior tekkie program: 31 seniors successfully completed our six-week technology training program, gaining practical skills and increased confidence in using online technology and digital resources. Summer youth programming: 49 youth participated in our summer camp, which provided opportunities in art, gardening, and three hours of daily enrichment through a partnership with the boys & girls clubs of fort wayne. Afterschool program: 74 youth in grades 3-8 registered for our afterschool program, receiving dinner, homework assistance, arts programming, girl scouts and boy scouts opportunities, and literacy and reading initiatives designed to support academic and personal development. Chief condra ridley library: distributed 1,287 free books to community members, expanding access to reading materials and promoting literacy throughout the community. Mothers for the movement: educated 147 youth on their rights and appropriate safety practices during interactions with law enforcement, including what to do if they are ever stopped or pulled over by police. Community health and facility expansion: broke ground on the renovation of the lower level of the fort wayne urban league facility, which will become the future home of alliance health center, expanding opportunities for health and wellness services within the community. Urban league guild: successfully completed all requirements to become an official chapter of the national urban league guild, strengthening volunteer engagement and expanding the organization's capacity to support the mission of the fort wayne urban league. These accomplishments reflect the fort wayne urban league's continued commitment to empowering individuals, strengthening families, investing in youth and seniors, promoting education and literacy, and improving the overall well-being of the fort wayne community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 84.9%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.94 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.29; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -14.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70% of revenue deployed · 84.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $625K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $102K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.