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Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation

To sustain the economic revitalization of all communities in upper manhattan through job creation, corporate alliances, strategic investments, and small business assistance.

$883k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$354k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$10MCommunity Improvement$890kEmployment$570kEducation$397kCivil Rights$340kHuman Services$175kPhilanthropy$100kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$3.0M
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $735,239 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $882,680 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $147,441 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $206k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
  • $250k+1 grant · $354k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$87M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUMCIL$354,000
APOLLO THEATRE FOUNDATION INC$175,000
NORTHERN MANHATTAN ARTS ALLIANCE$25,000
COMMUNITY LEAGUE OF THE HEIGHTS INC$25,000
STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC$25,000
NEW YORK URBAN LEAGUE INC$25,000
YOUTH ACTION PROGRAMS AND HOME INC$25,000
COMMUNITY IMPACT$25,000
MAYSLES INSTITUTE INC$21,239
PUBLIC WORKS PARTNERS LLC$20,000
WORKFORCE PROFESSION$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $15k → 13%SOHARLEM INC: $61k → 17%COMMUNITY IMPACT: $25k → 17%COMMUNITY IMPACT: $25k → 17%SOHARLEM INC: $19k → 17%SOHARLEM INC: $11k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $20k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 44 repeat orgs$910k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
13

Total granted

$15M
$875k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-8%

Still filing today

95%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEmploymentEducationPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • LM
    LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +4%
  • TC
    THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $500k · revenue +132%
  • SI
    STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $362k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • UM
    UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $472k · revenue -44%
  • FF
    FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -34%
  • AN
    ADVANCE NYC INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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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
World Trade Center Performing Arts Center Inc

The perelman performing arts center creates connections by cultivating bonds between extraordinary artists and communities with exemplary performances in active dialogue across the arts in our flexible intimate spaces, inviting…

Arts & Culture
5
The Hip Hop Museum

The hip hop museum preserves the past, celebrates the present, and leads the global future of hip hop, inspiring, educating, and empowering all.

Arts & Culture
6
Lehman College Center for the Performing Arts Inc

To provide the bronx & surrounding areas with access to affordable local, national, & international performances that educate & celebrate the traditions of a multi-cultural community.

Arts & Culture
7
Ballet Hispanico of New York Inc

Ballet hispanico brings communities together to celebrate and explore latino cultures through innovative productions, transformative dance training, and community engagement.

Arts & Culture
8
Black Theatre United Inc

To champion access, representation, equity and inclusion throughout the american theatre and our communities.

Arts & Culture
9
U B W Inc a/K/a Urban Bush Women Inc

Choreographer jawole willa jo zollar founded urban bush women (ubw) in 1984 as a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring the use of cultural expression as a catalyst for social change. ubw weaves contemporary dance, music and text with…

Arts & Culture
10
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
11
The Bronx Council On the Arts Incorporated

A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.

Arts & Culture
12
Arts & Business Council of New York Inc

The Arts & Business Council of New York stimulates partnerships between the arts and business that strengthen both sectors in the communities they serve. This is accomplished through programs that promote voluntarism, build arts management…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr21%24%10–20yr22%22%20–35yr14%36%35–55yr12%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr21%12%10–20yr22%17%20–35yr14%56%35–55yr12%15%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
11%
2,119/20,124

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
32/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC — $3,136,300 · Arts & CultureLOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INCAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $1,800,000 · Arts & CultureAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INCTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $1,060,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEMSUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING — $620,000 · Arts & CultureSUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLINGVisual Arts Research and Resource Center Relating — $564,045 · Arts & CultureVisual Arts Research and Resource Center RelatingTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC — $500,409 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $468,569 · Arts & Culture+20 more — $1,957,712 · Arts & Culture+20 moreBUSINESS RESOURCE AND INVESTMENT SERVICE CENTER INC — $1,997,991 · OtherBUSINESS RESOURCE AND …HARLEM STAGE INC — $360,322 · OtherHARLEM STAGE INCEMERGE 125 INC — $117,500 · OtherHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC — $107,226 · Other+13 more — $520,167 · Other+13 moreUPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $472,113 · Community ImprovementHARLEM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC — $147,100 · Community ImprovementGRAMEEN AMERICA INC — $115,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $105,300 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY LEAGUE OF THE HEIGHTS INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC — $361,574 · EmploymentPER SCHOLAS INC — $193,000 · Employment+1 more — $15,000 · EmploymentHEALTHCARE INDUSTRY GRANT CORPORATION — $250,001 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $147,048 · EducationFIRELIGHT MEDIA INC — $340,136 · Civil RightsSoHarlem Inc — $90,433 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY IMPACT INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD — $15,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$10,107,035Other$3,103,206Community Improvement$889,513Employment$569,574Education$397,049Civil Rights$340,136Human Services$175,433

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC — $3,136,300 over 8y, 10% of budgetBUSINESS RESOURCE AND INVESTMENT SERVICE CENTER INC — $1,997,991 over 6y, 75% of budgetAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $1,800,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $1,060,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING — $620,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetVisual Arts Research and Resource Center Relating — $564,045 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC — $500,409 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetUPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $472,113 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $468,569 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC — $361,574 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetHARLEM STAGE INC — $360,322 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetFIRELIGHT MEDIA INC — $340,136 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetHIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS — $298,150 over 4y, 19% of budgetHEALTHCARE INDUSTRY GRANT CORPORATION — $250,001 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetMAYSLES INSTITUTE INC — $247,739 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetMORRIS JUMEL MANSION INC — $221,500 over 5y, 18% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $193,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC — $147,100 over 5y, 14% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $147,048 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN MANHATTAN ARTS ALLIANCE INC — $135,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetEMERGE 125 INC — $117,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetGRAMEEN AMERICA INC — $115,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $108,662 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC — $107,226 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $105,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO — $104,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE — $103,650 over 6y, 14% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSoHarlem Inc — $90,433 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetMAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $90,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetJAZZMOBILE INC — $81,314 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetDANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC — $78,223 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAFRO-LATIN JAZZ ALLIANCE OF NEW YORK INC — $63,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFORCES OF NATURE INC — $62,500 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetBLACK PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP — $58,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE FUTURO MEDIA GROUP — $55,974 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJOSE LIMON DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetYOUTH ACTION PROGRAMS AND HOMES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEAGUE OF THE HEIGHTS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY IMPACT INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NEW YORK URBAN LEAGUE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN FELLOWS INC — $47,250 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetThe Harlem Chamber Players Inc — $45,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetPEOPLE'S THEATRE PROJECT INC — $37,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MUSEUM FOR AFRICAN ART D/B/A THE AFRICA CENTER — $32,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPUERTO RICAN WORKSHOP INC — $20,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ford FoundationThe Howard Gilman Fou…West Harlem Developme…The Andrew W Mellon F…The New York Communit…Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Hyde and Watson F…Hispanic Federation I…Booth Ferris Foundati…The Fan Fox and Lesli…The Trustees of Colum…The Pierre & Tana Mat…
The Ford FoundationNY43.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · West Harlem Development Corporation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Hispanic Federation Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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