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A J WILLIAMS-MYERS AFRICAN ROOTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC

A J WILLIAMS-MYERS AFRICAN ROOTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,477 to it, the largest being RODNEY L WHITE FOUNDATION INC ($49,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$42k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$119k
Net assets
$61k
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%
01What it does

What A J Williams-Myers African Roots Community Center Inc does

Mission

African Roots Community Center strives to uplift the history, experience, and culture of Black peoples, indigenous peoples, and peoples of color through a library collection and through programming for children, teens, adults, and elders. Often working in collaboration with community groups and local organizations, African Roots Comminity Center is committed to the advancement of historical knowledge, cultural enrichment, civic engagement, and class and racial justice.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Community Center/Library: The African Roots Community Center which includes the Little Free Library, our library collection, and provides space for regular community meetings, book clubs, volunteer opportunities, and free book distributions is open to the public on a weekly basis. The objective is to provide an ongoing space in service of our mission for civic engagement and cultural enrichment. Approximately 350 served.

    $46,667 spent
    61% of program spending
  2. Youth and Family Programming: Programming in 2024 included puppet-making workshops, puppet theatre performances, creative arts programs, nutrition/health/cooking workshops, Beats and Science, School Field Trips, Friday Family Film Night, and community-based convenings. These free programs further our mission by directly engaging youth and families through arts, learning, and civic engagement experiences that are fun, empowering and historically informative. Approximately 660 served.

    $28,305 spent
    37% of program spending
  3. Lectures/Presentations/Events: Lectures, presentations, and events in 2025 included Black August, Films for Praxis, Kwanzaa Celebration, Juneteenth, Honoring Our Namesake, Seed Exchange, Joyful Vibes Community Festival, Community Open Mic, and more. These special events are free to the general public and like our youth programming are geared towards cultural enrichment and the promotion of class and racial justice. Approximately 400 served.

    $1,530 spent
    2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $76,502.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($89k) Expenses 100 ($41k) Net assets 100 ($114k)2022 Revenue 102 ($90k) Expenses 126 ($52k) Net assets 134 ($153k)2023 Revenue 98 ($87k) Expenses 229 ($95k) Net assets 124 ($142k)2024 Revenue 47 ($42k) Expenses 199 ($82k) Net assets 89 ($101k)2025 Revenue 48 ($42k) Expenses 200 ($83k) Net assets 54 ($61k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (48)Expenses (200)Net assets (54)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $150k to $102k (−32%).

$117k
$156k
$150k
$102k
$61k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of A J WILLIAMS-MYERS AFRICAN ROOTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$47k
’21
$38k
’22
−$8k
’23
−$40k
’24
−$40k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $62k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of A J WILLIAMS-MYERS AFRICAN ROOTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

A J WILLIAMS-MYERS AFRICAN ROOTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

56% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A J WILLIAMS-MYERS AFRICAN ROOTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC.

42%
largest funder
69%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 40% · 2021 100% · 2022 74% · 2023 80% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

40% of A J WILLIAMS-MYERS AFRICAN ROOTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

96% of A J WILLIAMS-MYERS AFRICAN ROOTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

A J WILLIAMS-MYERS AFRICAN ROOTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−95% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−17% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds A J WILLIAMS-MYERS AFRICAN ROOTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC?
A J WILLIAMS-MYERS AFRICAN ROOTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,477 to it, the largest being RODNEY L WHITE FOUNDATION INC ($49,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does A J WILLIAMS-MYERS AFRICAN ROOTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $119,477 in grants to A J WILLIAMS-MYERS AFRICAN ROOTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of A J WILLIAMS-MYERS AFRICAN ROOTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC?
RODNEY L WHITE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $49,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing