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COLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUE

EIN 31-4379453 COLUMBUS, OH

Revenue 2024
$13,525,823
Expenses 2024
$14,994,210

Program services were 70.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
788 MOUNT VERNON AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • BETH MURPHY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRANDON NELSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DARREN SHEPPARD

    AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GIAVONNI LUCAS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HUSSEIN AWADA

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIM NEGRON

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KENDALL WHITE

    CULYP PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MELISSA BLOUNT-GARNER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MELISSA STIMAC

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MONICA OLIVERIO

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICHOLE BARNES MARSHALL

    BOARD VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHANIE SHAW

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TRISTAN HALL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VIREN PATEL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIAM JEFFERSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LARRY WALKER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHANIE HIGHTOWER

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $413,356
    From this org
    $401,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,356
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $326,000
    Bonus
    $75,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,356
    Filer's total
    $413,356

  • KESHA GARRETT

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $204,537
    From this org
    $182,292
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,245
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $182,292
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,245
    Filer's total
    $204,537

  • CHRISTINA BOULDING

    VP OF ADVANCEMENT

    Total calculated
    $147,022
    From this org
    $134,975
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,047
    Hours/week
    40

  • MARIO HALL

    DIRECTOR OF GRANTS COMPLIANCE

    Total calculated
    $132,704
    From this org
    $131,042
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,662
    Hours/week
    40

  • LORENZO BRENT

    AVP OF FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SERV

    Total calculated
    $131,368
    From this org
    $119,281
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,087
    Hours/week
    40

  • TAWANNA WILLIAMS

    AVP REGIONAL CAMPUS

    Total calculated
    $151,014
    From this org
    $131,322
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,692
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $116,042
    Bonus
    $15,280
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,692
    Filer's total
    $151,014

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $13,525,823
    Expenses
    $14,994,210
    Contributions
    $13,699,377
    Grants paid
    $1,769,201
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $14,392,357
    Expenses
    $17,300,804
    Contributions
    $13,884,696
    Grants paid
    $2,489,930
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $26,836,436
    Expenses
    $22,172,922
    Contributions
    $26,730,783
    Grants paid
    $4,183,551

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.