Urban Survivors Union
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463129789
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Greensboro, NC, USA
- Phone
- 3365097281
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Labor Unions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $181,536
- Expenses
- $165,493
- Assets
- $17,104
- Liabilities
- $251
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Isaac Jackson PhD (President)
People named in this filing
- Isaac Jackson PhD (President)
- Shilo Murphy (Treasurer)
- Caty Simon (Board 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Urban Survivors Union (USU) is a grassroots coalition of former and active drug users dedicated to ensuring respect, dignity, and social justice for our community. We contest the dominant culture's misguided attitudes and biases about drug use, sex work, drug users, and sex workers. USU stands for new unity and direction for people who use drugs and people who sell sex. Our programs are centered on improving conditions for people who use drugs qand sell sex as well as their families and communities.
What it reported doing in 2018
Leadership Development/Training - We have a series of trainings that we use to teach effective leadership development. We accomplish leadership development through local and national trainings, webinars, conferences, and retreats. We grew our coverage from 4 user unions to 28 user unions across the country. Apathy 2 Action"(A2A) is USU's organizing and leadership development program developed using the social ecological model. A2A builds leaders and brings marginalized individuals into the problem solving process.We provide leadership opportunities and opportunities to begin working as organizers and advocates. One piece of the magic is when people come in as passive recipients of service and stay as active organizers.
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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.8%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.1%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.4% of revenue deployed · 91.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $151K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.