Global Urban History Project Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
821396414
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Buffalo, NY, USA
Phone
7162189158
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,026
Expenses
$3,329
Assets
$18,495

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

27 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Rosemary Wakeman (President)
  • Carola Hein (Past President)

People named in this filing

  • Rosemary Wakeman (President)
  • Carola Hein (Past President)
  • Carl Nightgale (Executive Dir.)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Global Urban History Project is a meeting place for scholars interestedin exploring the crossroads of urban history and global history. Weencourage the study of cities as creations and creators of large-scale orglobal historical phenomena.

What it reported doing in 2024

The Global Urban History project was very active in 2023, continuing its Dream Conversations in Urban History and planning a five-event series entitled Narrating Urban Lives for Spring 2024 with four other collaborating urban studies associations. GUHP also announced a three-way institutional partnership with the history department at New York University and the Centre for Urban Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. NYU funded a graduate student worker who has taken over our newsletter, Noteworthy in Global Urban History and has resumed the Global Urban History blog. Planning also began for GUHPs 2025 in-person conference at the Center for Metropolitan Studies in Berlin Germany.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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

STRONG - 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: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.7%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.3%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.56; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -13.6% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -13.8% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -21.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 27 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.