Who funds Urban Institute?

In support of financial health

Worth Evaluation Extension

Affordable Housing Support of Local Communities and Businesses

Heirs' Property Protection Pilot

In support of creating economic mobility and career pathways

Asset building/financial capability

In support of underserved small business expansion

Evaluation Grant - Wealth Opportunities Restored through Homeownership

To support the urban institute in a research study examining how macroeconomic shocks impact the ability of people of color to build and preserve wealth.

Enhancing Retirement Savings & Financial Well-Being

annual fund

Supporting Housing and Diverse Developers through Capital Access

Provides rapid, equity-focused analysis on disasters and disaster recovery needs in the days before, and after, those events, to that expand public conversations to include key equity topics and support community advocates and policy-makers who are prioritizing these important issues.

Matching contribution (general operating support)

Current use for charitable purposes

U.s. Economic mobility & opportunity

To serve as the coordinator and technical assistance provider for the just home project to advance targeted housing solutions to break the link between housing instability and incarceration under the safety and justice challenge

U.s. Economic mobility & opportunity

In support of neighborhood revitalization

81601 providing technical assistance and direction for RWJF'S policies for action research program, 2024

U.s. Economic mobility & opportunity

Project support grant to support local leaders in under-resourced cities

Community progress makers learning community initiative

Healthier food for all

80920 enhancing the impact of the national neighborhood indicators partnership to support strategies for equity in cities across the country

To conduct research and analysis to inform policy discussions on key aspects of the medicare program related to competition and spending including (i) reforms to medicare advantage payment benchmarks, (II) oversight of agents and brokers, and (III) benefit redesign in traditional medicare.

To fund the tax policy center.

To support research on the needs of youth and young workers at workrise, a pooled fund and research institute that focuses on economic mobility

To support tax policy center's federal tax model and research and analysis of fiscal policy developments.

To support a research project

82293 supporting the lancet commission on antiracism in solidarity to promote decolonialization of the u.s. Healthcare and public health systems

Promise of an Equitable Future

Postsecondary education

82269 assisting local nonprofit organizations in using data to surface and address structural inequities in community conditions

To increase the number of local jurisdictions selected to participate in the just home project, an initiative to fund targeted housing solutions to break the link between housing instability and incarceration, from four to six sites

The housing matters initiative: advancing improvements in community health, education, and environment through a stable home

Families and Communities

To support a youth research agenda for workrise

Redesigning the child tax credit to reduce economic inequality: changes to benefits and administration

82302 supporting the tax policy center and office of race and equity research in centering families in the 2025 tax debate

82480 advancing the tax system to be more inclusive of all families

Modeling Policies That Could Expand and Improve Health Coverage and Affordability - or Roll Back Progress

Analyzing Emerging Health Reform Proposals

Families and Communities

81535 shaping new legal arguments in support of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in harnessing the law as a tool to advance health equity

Support development of estimates on eligibility and participation of youth and young adults in SNAP, TANF, and public and subsidized housing

To support policy analysis and development, field leadership, and educational advocacy to drive progress on federal accountability and student loan reform.

To support economic development

General support

To host and administer a fund that supports innovative ideas and new approaches from local jurisdictions to reduce reliance on jails as part of the safety and justice challenge

General support

Research and learning opportunities

To support the development of effective bipartisan policy to integrate medicare and medicaid for the dual-eligible population.

To make the case for meaningful reforms to medicare advantage through robust analysis and development of effective policy options.

Support to help Maryland connect underserved families to crucial state tax credits

To produce publications documenting the work of the safety and justice challenge implementation sites and engage in peer learning and dissemination events

To estimate the cost and coverage effects of increasing the age of medicare eligibility.

82272 providing evidence to inform changes in how federal agencies measure disability status in order to improve health equity

Addressing the racial wealth gap by developing financial resilience in financial assets amid adverse macroeconomic shocks: research to inform innovations in policy and practice

Research and education on family economic stability

Projects support grant to work with a group of colleges and universities to understand how the supreme courts 2023 decision on race based college admissions has affected demographics.

Housing affordability programming

Support the Low-Income Working Families youth safety net project and Kids Share

Support for basic needs and student parent research

New frontiers in child safety net policy: an initiative to promote innovation and effectiveness in the delivery of cash assistance to families with children

K-12 education; postsecondary education; research and learning opportunities; u.s. Economic mobility & opportunity

Impact measurement initiative

To educate the policy community on medicare-related taxes and the need to strengthen medicare's financing to improve its fiscal situation.

Maternal health systems

Core support for the disability equity policy initiative to grow the disability lens across the organization's work on immigration, housing, and poverty/inequality

Research and education on family economic stability

Education & economic mobility

General operating support for the DC education research collaborative

82295 developing guidelines for community advisory boards to ensure the production of high-quality research that affects community members' lives

Support for Connecting Community Service Corps to Climate and Infrastructure Occupations

To build synthetic tax datasets for use in social science research

Public awareness and analysis

In support of quantifying the potential impact of baby bonds on wealth inequities experienced by historically underserved communities

To increase awareness and improve understanding of the drivers of america's fiscal challenges.

To update grantee's 2019 state survey of medicaid physician fees with 2024 data to support efforts to evaluate and analyze medicaid fees, fee changes (2019 to 2024), and medicaid-to-medicare fee ratios.

To fill gaps in the existing body of prekindergarten research by evaluating a large and diverse program in washington, D.C.

Support for 2024 general operating expenses. 202402-14748

How Can Health Systems Ensure Accountability for Equitable Delivery of Health Care?

80606 providing technical assistance and direction for RWJF'S policies for action research program, 2023

Data-to-Action for Parenting Students at Rural Oregon Colleges

To conduct randomized control trial to evaluate kentucky's wraparound program, a care-coordination model for children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health needs, and their families.

Impact of healthcare4childcare in the district of columbia

To support the development of a set of community impact measures that demonstrate community colleges' social value

Support the Tax Policy Center's (TPC) work on low-income families and children

To support the advancement of student parent research

Assessing the Effects of State Medical Debt Protection Policies

Support reduction of debt in America and youth financial well-being

Charity

Public awareness and analysis

Analyzing Emerging Health Reform Proposals

To model the costs and impacts of policies that allow people with disabilities who work to participate in the medicaid buy-in program, with a focus on achieving budget neutrality.

Public transit workforce analysis

To support a research program on state and federal regulations and their impact on the nonprofit and philanthropic sector.

Assessing the effect on inequality of a childless eitc expansion for young adults

To research and inform progress on higher education accountability and student loan reform.

General support

To conduct a landscape analysis of federal place-based development programs.

Housing affordability programming

Support for research analysis and evaluation of a project to give residents a choice by offering them financial assistance and support for wealth-building strategies, property ownership, property maintenance, or investment accounts. 202207-12656

Support the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership Network and Strategic Plan

For support of the history of philanthropy program at urban's center on nonprofits and philanthropy

To conduct and publish a landscape scan that examines how fair chance housing laws have developed and been implemented across jurisdictions.

Project support to aid the design, launch and implementation of community planning academies in fresno, memphis and beyond

To convene academics and practitioners to discuss research opportunities on the topic of prison conditions.

82587 understanding how changes to the community eligibility provision's threshold impacts school meals

To drive attention to the issue of medicare solvency and sustainability and make the case for meaningful medicare reforms through robust analysis and development of effective policy options.

To support the charitable mission of the recipient organization

Support for process and outcomes evaluation of restorative justice practice in DC

To support analysis of civil court data in ohio with an equity lens

Support analyzing Medicaid eligibility and Participation among Young Adults

To conduct research to evaluate the impact of a new pretrial policy in louisiana.

To leverage the well-being and basic needs survey to ask a subset of questions on fines, fees, and court debts, with the overall goal of expanding the evidence base on national prevalence of criminal legal fines, fees, and debts.

To support research and analysis of tax policy as it relates to the nonprofit sector.

Support for child welfare impact evidence-building barriers and challenges

Support for effective approaches to connect youth and young adults to public benefits

Research grant

Crisis response

To conduct research projects examining the effects of the medicare-medicaid financial alignment initiative demonstrations in massachusetts and washington.

80525 understanding the role of covid-19-era federal and state policy changes in advancing health equity through improved health and diet quality

Unequal Treatment at 20: Accelerating Progress Toward Advancing Health Care Equity

To educate the public on the higher education accountability reform.

To support kids' share, a project measuring spending on children in the federal budget.

Other operating support

Board discretionary - the lancet commission on antiracism in solidarity - maternal health working group

Support for a bipartisan tax briefing for Congressional Staff

Community services

To support the center on nonprofits and philanthropys history of philanthropy program

75755 evaluating the implementation and impact of the keeping families together program in new jersey

Support for social service programs or educational programs

Financial Assistance

General fund

To support educational research.

Project support

To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a supportive housing program for people experiencing chronic homelessness.

To examine whether certain at-risk populations are more likely to have medical debt in collections on their credit record.

79438 forecasting the impact of place-based policies and economic development initiatives on expansion of economic opportunity for underserved communities

For support of the center on nonprofits and philanthropy

Support to launch State of the Safety Net Initiative and analyze how federal policy changes impact income and poverty

For a final grant to support a web publication on the history and social impact of philanthropy, nonprofits, and civil society

Improving Medicare Complaints and Payments for PACE Plans

Financial well-being

79355 evaluating the impact of a barrier-reduction subsidy in preventing youth violence and improving population health in wilmington, del.

80807 mapping federal tax policies and practices that undermine equitable economic inclusion for families to inform evidence-based solutions

To support events and core activities.

General operating support

Unwinding of Medicaid's Continuous Coverage Requirement: Convenings on Critical Research Priorities

Proactive Strategies to Eliminating Inequities: Insights from Emerging Scholars

78984 exploring innovative state strategies to provide more equitable access to federal food assistance to providers of license-exempt home-based child care

To support the peter g. Peterson foundation fiscal internship program.

General

Matching contribution (general operating support)

General support

Provide general operating support

Emerging Researchers support

General

To fund the tax policy center.

General operating support

Democracy & civic engagement - tax policy center 09/01/2023-02/28/2026

U.s. Economic mobility & opportunity

U.s. Economic mobility & opportunity

To support learning in and across cities on how to achieve shared prosperity by helping local leaders align federal investments with local goals; building a new urban practice through actionable research, strategic advising, and thought leadership; and leveraging and expanding urbans own learning and dissemination circle on economic health, equity, and climate action.

K-12 education; postsecondary education; research and learning opportunities; u.s. Economic mobility & opportunity

Postsecondary education

To support research and the development of tools to expand the capacity of targeted communities to shape policies at both the federal and local levels that amplify the intersectional nature of race, housing instability, and homelessness

Future of workers

Perc project management

Financial well-being data hub

Perc project management

New frontiers in child safety net policy: an initiative to promote innovation and effectiveness in the delivery of cash assistance to families with children

The housing matters initiative: advancing improvements in community health, education, and environment through a stable home

Workrise

Families and Communities

To support the development of effective bipartisan policy to integrate medicare and medicaid for the dual-eligible population.

To make the case for meaningful reforms to medicare advantage through robust analysis and development of effective policy options.

To support four-year institutions in collecting student parent data to improve and inform policy and practice.

to produce publications documenting the work of the Safety and Justice Challenge Implementation Sites and engage in peer learning and dissemination events

To conduct a landscape analysis of federal place-based development programs.

General support

K-12 education

Addressing the racial wealth gap by developing financial resilience in financial assets amid adverse macroeconomic shocks: research to inform innovations in policy and practice

Analyzing Emerging Health Reform Proposals

To research medical debt and hospital markets.

Support for the national neighborhood indicators partnership

Program/operating support

to host and administer a fund to foster and support innovative ideas and new approaches from local jurisdictions to reduce reliance on jails as part of the Safety and Justice Challenge

To align new and existing trend data across multiple federal entities and produce analyses using the data

Support for research and activities of the urban institute's workrise platform. 202105-10605

Support the low-income working families youth safety net project and kids share

Support for workrise

Support to build knowledge products, programming, and convenings for urban institute's community engaged methods resource center. 202204-12316

Public awareness and analysis

to help bridge gaps between education policymakers and researchers by publishing and disseminating timely, rigorous analyses of policy issues in a format that is useful and engaging for policymakers

Core support for the disability equity policy initiative to grow the disability lens across the organization's work on immigration, housing, and poverty/inequality

To expand data collection activities and support with the ACE-UP community colleges cohort.

To support research and analysis of tax policy as it relates to the nonprofit sector.

Data-to-Action for Parenting Students at Rural Oregon Colleges

In support of quantifying the potential impact of baby bonds on racial wealth inequities experienced by historically underserved communities

Project-Based

To build synthetic tax datasets for use in social science research

Support for process and outcomes evaluation of restorative justice practice in DC

Support the tax policy center's (TPC) work on low-income families and children

General operating support

General operating support

Supporting efforts to achieve healthcare equity: to support an organization examining the major barriers and areas of progess towards achieving healthcare equity for all.

Assessing the Effects of State Medical Debt Protection Policies

Research and education on family economic stability

To increase awareness and improve understanding of the drivers of americas fiscal challenges.

Public awareness and analysis

For support of the history of philanthropy program at urban's center on nonprofits and philanthropy

To research and inform progress on higher education accountability and student loan reform.

Research grant

For elevating voices of southern csos in the localization discourse

To support analysis on a range of issues related to implementing the public option in the employer markets in three states.

Provide general operating support

Support research on impact of recent eitc improvements

Improving Medicare Complaints and Payments for PACE Plans

General support

To support kids' share, a project measuring spending on children in the federal budget.

To develop a methodology to more accurately estimate drug rebates and discounts for use by researchers.

Exploring How the Experiences and Preferences of Birthing People Align with Maternal Health Policy Proposals

Matching gifts for general operating support

General & Unrestricted

To support tax policy center's federal tax model and research and analysis of fiscal policy developments.

To support a Post SCOTUS Affirmative Action Decision Convening hosted by the Urban Institute.

To support a research program on state and federal regulations and their impact on the nonprofit and philanthropic sector.

To support a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a supportive housing program for people experiencing chronic homelessness.

Unwinding of Medicaid's Continuous Coverage Requirement: Convenings on Critical Research Priorities

Proactive Strategies to Eliminating Inequities: Insights from Emerging Scholars

To conduct and disseminate research on the structure of federal financing for graduate and professional programs, with the goal of informing possible reforms to federal financing and accountability frameworks.

Support to disseminate research on student parents

Community services

Researching medical debt across new york state

Improvements to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

Comparing the Care Process Across Countries for Common Conditions

Support for leap young parents learning community

For a final grant to support a web publication on the history and social impact of philanthropy, nonprofits, and civil society

General fund

Research and education on family economic stability

To conduct a risk adjustment work group.

To support research into hospital financial metrics and their impacts on commercial prices.

Medical Malpractice: Issues, Evidence,

To support an interactive research feature that will identify revenue sources to replace revenues generated from fines, fees, and forfeitures.

Support for child welfare impact evidence building barriers and challenges

Public charity

For support for the center on nonprofits and philanthropy