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· Public charity

Harlem Children's Zone Inc

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

$14M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $5,788,206, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,405,255 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,617,049 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $250k+4 grants · $5.8M
$950,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE PROMISE ACADEMY I$2,310,446
HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE PROMISE ACADEMY II$1,560,260
NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE$950,000
EAST LAKE FOUNDATION INC$950,000
OAKLAND PROMISE$17,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THRIVE CHICAGO NFP: $2.7M → 14%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE - DREW HAMILTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 17%COMMUNITY IMPACT: $9k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
OH
NJ
CA
MD
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47M · 4 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
20

Total granted

$47M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $950k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HC
    HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE PROMISE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $23M · revenue +26%
  • HC
    HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE PROMISE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +25%
  • OP
    OAKLAND PROMISE
    2× · 2021–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2021 · $2.7M · revenue +19%
  • BR
    BUILDING RESPONSIBLE INTELLIGENT CREATIVE KIDS
    one grant, 2021 · $2.7M · revenue -66%
  • PB
    PURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATIONINCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2.7M · revenue +328% · 63% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Brooklyn Community Foundation

Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.

Philanthropy
2
Chinese-American Planning Council Inc

Cpc's mission is to promote social and economic empowerment of chineseamerican, immigrant and low-income communities.

Human Services
3
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
4
United Way of New York City

Uwnyc works with a coalition of trusted partners to unite community power with citywide possibility. together, we meet today's most urgent needs while building transformative solutions for tomorrow - striving for health, opportunity, and…

Philanthropy
5
City Year Inc

City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…

Unclassified
6
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
7
The Bronx Parent Housing Network Inc

Bronx parent housing network is committed to making a difference in solving the housing problem in new york city by transforming lives and creating holistic paths to employment so that individuals and families can secure safe, clean,…

Human Services
8
Enterprise Community Investment Inc

All our efforts support our strategic goals to increase housing supply, advance racial equity and build resilience and upward mobility.the organization raises private capital through investment and by forming effective partnerships.…

Housing & Shelter
9
New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation

Nyceec's mission is to deliver financing solutions and advance markets for energy efficiency and clean energy in communities.

Environment
10
Long Island Partnership Clt Housing Development Fund Company Inc

Long island partnership clt housing development fund company, inc. (lipclt) was established to provide housing within nassau and suffolk counties in new york for "persons of low income", as defined in any federal or state low income…

Housing & Shelter
11
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
12
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for the City of New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE PROMISE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $22,904,614 · EducationHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE PROMISE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE PROMISE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II: $18,087,844 · EducationHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE PROMISE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL IIOAKLAND PROMISE: $2,686,312 · EducationOAKLAND PROMISEBUILDING RESPONSIBLE INTELLIGENT CREATIVE KIDS: $2,673,333 · EducationBUILDING RESPONSIBLE INTELLIGENT CREATIVE KIDS+1 more: $25,000 · EducationPURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATIONINC: $2,673,333 · PhilanthropyEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $950,000 · PhilanthropyStriveTogether Inc: $386,666 · Philanthropy+1 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $3,623,333 · Crime & LegalTHRIVE CHICAGO NFP: $2,673,333 · Human Services+2 more: $16,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $2,673,333 · Public Safety & DisasterPOLICYLINK: $386,666 · Community ImprovementCAMBA INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $386,666 · Civil RightsPHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $50,000 · OtherLiving Redemption Community Development Corp: $13,000 · OtherFRIENDLY HANDS INC: $10,000 · OtherLITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $8,000 · OtherTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK: $50,000 · OtherAFRICAN SERVICES COMMITTEE INC: $10,000 · OtherIRIS HOUSE - A CENTER FOR WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV INC: $7,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · Other
Education$46,377,103Philanthropy$4,059,999Crime & Legal$3,623,333Human Services$2,689,333Public Safety & Disaster$2,673,333Community Improvement$436,666Civil Rights$386,666Other$153,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 FoundationFood Bank for New Yor…United Way of New Yor…Mother Cabrini Health…The Ford FoundationPinkerton FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harlem Children's Zone Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harlem Children's Zone Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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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