URBAN LIBRARIES COUNCIL

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2024 · Form 990 · revenue $3.9M · expenses $4.2M · assets $4.4M

EIN

36-3071241

Address

1333 H ST NW STE 1000W, WASHINGTON, DC 20005-4756

Website

WWW.URBANLIBRARIES.ORG

NTEE code

Z99Z

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)

Ruling date

November 1992 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exempt (unconditional) (IRS Business Master File) IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Public charity supported by the public (170(b)(1)(a)(vi))

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Mission

THE URBAN LIBRARIES COUNCIL IS DEDICATED TO STRENGTHENING AND ADVANCING THE ESSENTIAL ROLE OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES AS DYNAMIC, ACCESSIBLE PLACES FOR OPPORTUNITY, LEARNING AND INNOVATION. WE CONNECT PUBLIC LIBRARY LEADERS AND DRIVE TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE TO ENRICH THE LIVES OF INDIVIDUALS AND URBAN COMMUNITIES ACROSS NORTH AMERICA.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

19 people paid across every filing: current people first, then by total pay from this organization. Organizations counts every nonprofit each person appears on.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

61 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

Who the money went to

Grants this organization reported paying: Schedule I Part II of the Form 990, or the grants-paid list on the 990-PF. Open a year for every recipient. Recipients link to their own page when the grant names an EIN we have (990-PF grants list no EIN, so those link only on an exact, unique name and state). Grants to individuals are counted; their names are not shown.

Negative amounts are returned or refunded grants; they are listed last and left out of the totals of grants paid.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Connected to

Organizations that list some of the same people on their returns (officers, directors, key employees on this organization’s latest return), and related organizations it lists on Schedule R.

• CALIFA GROUP San Francisco, CA · 2 people in common (Jennie Pu, Misty Jones)
• CALIFORNIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Pasadena, CA · 1 person in common (Misty Jones)
• EDNA YELLAND MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND Pasadena, CA · 1 person in common (Misty Jones)

Funders of this organization

5 grantors reported grants to this organization, $5,517,741 in all, tax years 2015 to 2024. Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.

Federal lobbying

Lobbying Disclosure Act reports naming a client or registrant with this organization's name and state. Spent: what lobbying for it cost (firm income plus its own reported expenses). Earned: income it reported as a lobbying firm.

Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Telecommunications, Education, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties

Firms hired: COGENT STRATEGIES LLC

Federal grants and contracts

Awards from USAspending.gov to a recipient with this organization's name and zip code. Obligations by federal fiscal year (October to September); each award links to its page on usaspending.gov.

State business registration

• URBAN LIBRARIES COUNCIL DC, Employee benefit plan sponsor (Form 5500), Filed for plan year 2025
• URBAN LIBRARIES COUNCIL, INC. FL, Foreign nonprofit corporation (FORNP), Inactive, formed 2016-02-10

The same business name in the same state, from the state’s official registry data.

Also on this site Fuzzy

Matched by name (and state) or EIN only; a shared name is not proof of the same person or organization.