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URBAN WORD NYC INC

EIN 32-0250944 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$676,600
Expenses 2024
$1,120,155

Program services were 83.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 1813

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE MISSION OF URBAN WORD NYC (THE ORGANIZATION) CHAMPIONS AND ELEVATES YOUNG, MARGINALIZED VOICES AS LEADERS AT THE INTERSECTION OF LITERARY ARTS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT. THROUGH THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF THE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN WORD, URBAN WORD EQUIPS YOUTH WITH THE TOOLS, TRAINING, AND PLATFORMS TO REWRITE THE NARRATIVES THAT SHAPE THEIR LIVES AND COMMUNITIES. AS ONE OF THE NATION'S OLDEST AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE YOUTH LITERARY ARTS ORGANIZATIONS, URBAN WORD LEADS BOTH LOCAL AND NATIONAL PROGRAMS INCLUDING THE NATIONAL YOUTH POET LAUREATE PROGRAM, CULTIVATING A NETWORK OF POETS, CIVICALLY ENGAGED LEADERS, AND EDUCATORS DEDICATED TO EMPOWERING THE NEXT GENERATION OF CREATIVE CHANGEMAKERS.

  • PROVIDING PLATFORMS FOR CRITICAL LITERACY, YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP THROUGH FREE AND UNCENSORED WRITING, COLLEGE PREPARATION AND PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES. WORKSHOPS ARE STUDENT-CENTERED ENVIRONMENTS WHERE YOUNG WRITERS CAN EXPERIMENT, EXPLORE AND EVENTUALLY PERFORM THEIR WORK. PERFORMANCES HELP TEENS ANNUALLY WITH FREE WRITING AND PERFORMANCEOPPORTUNITIES THAT ENGAGE EDUCATIONAL, VOCATIONAL, ARTISTIC AND PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT WITH VARIOUS COMPETITIONS AND OPEN MIC NIGHTS.URBAN WORD HOLDS VARIOUS TRAINING PROGRAMS THAT AIM TO EXAMINE CRITICAL ISSUES AFFECTING TODAYS YOUTH, WHILE PROVIDING CREATIVE AND PRACTICAL RESOURCES TO ADDRESS THEM.

    Expenses $931,896

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • KEVIN BROWN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ERIC ADISA

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KEVIN BUDDHDEW

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CAMONGHNE FELIX

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DK BARTLEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHAEL CIRELLI

    DIRECTOR, NATIONAL YOUTH POET LAUREATE

    Total calculated
    $135,850
    From this org
    $135,850
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • ERICA CHITO CHILDS

    ACTING DEAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MELISHA JACKMAN

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $676,600
    Expenses
    $1,120,155
    Contributions
    $536,232
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $642,395
    Expenses
    $857,903
    Contributions
    $489,742
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $816,873
    Expenses
    $1,082,023
    Contributions
    $579,035
    Grants paid
    $0

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,015,207
    Expenses
    $925,211
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,753,279

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $926,115
    Expenses
    $627,820
    Assets (EOY)
    $727,510

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $659,948
    Expenses
    $702,655
    Assets (EOY)
    $463,723

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $842,330
    Expenses
    $959,779
    Assets (EOY)
    $432,351

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,052,105
    Expenses
    $882,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $654,559

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $835,177
    Expenses
    $844,569
    Assets (EOY)
    $564,252

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $846,194
    Expenses
    $684,387
    Assets (EOY)
    $685,170

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $577,302
    Expenses
    $578,863
    Assets (EOY)
    $632,241

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $550,047
    Assets (EOY)
    $502,110

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $631,952
    Assets (EOY)
    $538,258

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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 13 October 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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.