Urban Community Alliance
Legal name: Urban Community Allianceinc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061324343
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New Haven, CT, United States
- Phone
- (203) 786-5970
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,330,047
- Expenses
- $1,085,968
- Assets
- $572,958
- Liabilities
- $3,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- TORRYE HAIRSTON (SECRETARY)
- JOSEPH FOURNIER (MEMBER)
- MANUEL A RIVERA (MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
UCA’s mission is to empower families of color to develop healthy attachments and promote physical, emotional, social and spiritual well-being while developing a positive connection to their communities. UCA has three central beliefs: Support self-reliance** through helping individuals realize their personal strengths and agency. Urban Community Alliance is the rebranded organization formed by the merger of New Haven Family Alliance (NHFA) and Veterans Empowering Teens Through Support (V.E.T.T.S.™). NHFA/V.E.T.T.S.™ have joined together to help further communities of color by: 1. Empowering families and building on their strengths to nurture healthy family functioning that keeps families together in their communities. 2. Integrating natural supports within the community to foster self-reliance.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided case management to the juvenile review board, family preservation and services, reunification and male involvement network. The uca served over 721 families in the greater new haven area. The juvenile review board served 130 juveniles between hamden and new haven ct. The program facilitated over 150 panels and exceeded their kpi goals. The male involvement program served 22 fathers in the greater new haven area. The intensive family preservation and reunification program served 27 families. The v.e.t.t.s. Program served over 68 unduplicated youth throughout the state of Connecticut resulting in over 30,200 hours of mentoring support rendered. Urban community alliance (uca)provides support to clients and the community through food support, clothing drive, back to school events, summer programming, health relations workshops, trauma, mental health referrala, and outreach/recruitment of honorably discharged military vets.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 82% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 18.4%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 70% of revenue deployed · 85.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $931K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.