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Harlem Children's Zone Inc

We enhance the life for children and families in some of nyc's most devastated neighborhoods.

$14M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$5.8M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$950,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,310,446
Organizations funded a year
2 to 24
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Harlem Children's Zone Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$5.8M20%
FY20242$4.2M0%
FY20232$3.8M0%
FY20222$4.0M0%
FY202124$21M92%
FY20202$4.7M0%
FY20192$4.6M0%
FY20182$4.5M0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$41MPublic Safety & Disaster$17MCrime & Legal$950kPhilanthropy$950k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
OH
NJ
CA
MD
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Harlem Children's Zone Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHarlem Children's Zone Promise Academy Charter School: $22,904,614 over 9y, 16% of budgetHarlem Children's Zone Promise Academy Charter School II: $18,087,844 over 9y, 19% of budgetNorthside Achievement Zone: $3,623,333 over 2y, 13% of budgetOakland Promise: $2,686,312 over 2y, 21% of budgetUnited Way for Southeastern Michigan: $2,673,333 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBuilding Responsible Intelligent Creative Kids: $2,673,333 over 1y, 22% of budgetPurpose Built Communities Foundationinc: $2,673,333 over 1y, 63% of budgetThrive Chicago Nfp: $2,673,333 over 1y, 58% of budgetNAACP Empowerment Programs Inc: $386,666 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetStriveTogether Inc: $386,666 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPolicylink: $386,666 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Boys' Club of New York: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFund for the City of New York Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamba Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhipps Neighborhoods Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetConey Island Preparatory Public Charter School: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLiving Redemption Community Development Corp: $13,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAfrican Services Committee Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Impact Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLittle Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIris House - a Center for Women Living With HIV Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Village Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Robin Hood FoundationNY17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · Food Bank for New York City · United Way of New York City · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Harlem Children's Zone Inc

How much does Harlem Children's Zone Inc give?
Harlem Children's Zone Inc reported 5 itemized grants totaling $5,788,206, out of $14,405,255 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Harlem Children's Zone Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Public Safety & Disaster (29%), Crime & Legal (2%).
Who are Harlem Children's Zone Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy Charter School ($23M), Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy Charter School II ($18M), Northside Achievement Zone ($3.6M).
Does Harlem Children's Zone Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Harlem Children's Zone Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robin Hood Foundation, Food Bank for New York City, United Way of New York City.
Where is Harlem Children's Zone Inc based?
Harlem Children's Zone Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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