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· Public charity

Harlem Grown Inc

To inspire youth to lead healthier, more ambitious lives through hands-on education and mentorship in urban farming, nutrition and sustainability

$214k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
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, FY2023 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$141kRecreation & Sports$42kHuman Services$20kEducation$16kHealth$12k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $151,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $214,455 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $63,455 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $112k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAZZMOBILE$15,000
CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM (CTH)$15,000
GOOD VIBES IN THE PARK$12,000
UPTOWN GRAND CENTRAL$10,000
CLAIM OUR SPACE NOW$10,000
MAYSLES DOCUMENTARY CENTER$10,000
THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM$10,000
NEW HERITAGE THEATRE GROUP INC$10,000
FABLE JONES STUDIO$10,000
NYC KIDSFEST$10,000
READ IT AND LEAVE IT INC$9,000
MOUNT MORRIS COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION$8,000
MARCUS GARVEY PARK ALLIANCE$8,000
KRAAL CHARLES MEDIA LLC$8,000
BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE$6,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NYC KIDSFEST: $10k → 17%UPTOWN GRAND CENTRAL: $10k → 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.
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$118k · 6 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$118k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+48%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • JI
    JAZZMOBILE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +42%
  • TC
    THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +5%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • HL
    HARLEM LATE NIGHT JAZZ INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +48%
  • HG
    HEATH GALLERY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
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
Howl Arts Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Harlem Film House

Harlem Film House provides access and opportunity for creative entrepreneurs and independent storytellers by producing programs platforms and events that support artistic development audience engagement and career growth Through film media…

Arts & Culture
3
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
4
Harlem Arts Foundation

The Harlem Art''s Foundation''s Mission Is To Showcase And Preserve Harlem''s Tradition Of Rich Culture And Community By Working With Our Local Partners To Strategically Shape The Physical And Social Opportunities Of Our Neighborhood…

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5
Parity Productions Inc
Arts & Culture
6
Project Performing Arts Inc

Provide high quality low cost performing arts classes to underserved children in Harlem and the surrounding neigborhoods.

Arts & Culture
7
Sukkahwood Inc

Sukkahwood Inc. provides arts programs for the Northern Manhattan community with a Jewish theme.

Religion
8
The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc
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9
Blue Curtain a Nj NonProfit Corporation

Entertainment

Arts & Culture
10
Go Africa Network Inc
Health
11
Nia Theatrical Production Company Inc

Nia theatrical production company inc. is dedicatedto educating young artist and bringing arts program to underserved communities in nyc.

Arts & Culture
12
Rising Jazz Stars
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Jazz Museum in Harlem; the most unlike its peers is Marcus Garvey Park Alliance Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAZZMOBILE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZMOBILE INCTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INCTHE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEMHARLEM LATE NIGHT JAZZ INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHARLEM LATE NIGHT JAZZ INCMAYSLES INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMAYSLES INSTITUTE INCBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INCREAD IT AND LEAVE IT INC: $15,886 · OtherREAD IT AND LEAVE IT INCGOOD VIBES IN THE PARK: $12,000 · OtherGOOD VIBES IN THE PARKNEW HERITAGE THEATRE GROUP: $10,000 · OtherNEW HERITAGE THEATRE GROUPFABLE JONES STUDIO: $10,000 · OtherFABLE JONES STUDIOCLAIM OUR SPACE NOW INC: $10,000 · OtherCLAIM OUR SPACE NOW INCKRAAL CHARLES MEDIA LLC: $8,000 · OtherKRAAL CHARLES MEDIA LLCHEATH GALLERY INC: $7,350 · OtherHEATH GALLERY INCUPTOWN GRAND CENTRAL CORP: $10,000 · Human ServicesUPTOWN GR…NYC KIDSFEST INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNYC KIDSF…MARCUS GARVEY PARK ALLIANCE INC: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsMOUNT MORRIS PARK COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT: $13,735 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$106,000Other$73,236Human Services$20,000Recreation & Sports$18,000Community Improvement$13,735

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJAZZMOBILE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHARLEM LATE NIGHT JAZZ INC: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMARCUS GARVEY PARK ALLIANCE INC: $18,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetMOUNT MORRIS PARK COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT: $13,735 over 2y, 56% of budgetMAYSLES INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUPTOWN GRAND CENTRAL CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNEW HERITAGE THEATRE GROUP: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNYC KIDSFEST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

West Harlem Developme…The Howard Gilman Fou…Upper Manhattan Empow…The Pierre & Tana Mat…Lower Manhattan Cultu…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
West Harlem Development CorporationNY19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: West Harlem Development Corporation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation · The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Inc · Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Grown Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harlem Grown Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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