New York · Nonprofit
HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE
HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $715,775 to it, the largest being WEST HARLEM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($521,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $514k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $716k
- Net assets
- $220k
What Harlem Arts Alliance does
Mission
The organization nutures the artistic growth and organzational development of artist and art organizations based in harlem and the surrounding communities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Membership & audience development/ interactive sessions: the organization hosted interactive sessions for members with average attendance of 10-40 persons. The meetings provided opportunties for member artists to network and promote performances and exhibits. Flyers are distributed and social media and eblasts are used to advertise member events and presentations
$26,197 spent8% of program spendingArtist advancement: hosted visual art workshops and development seminars for artists and art organizations with average attendance of 25 persons per session. Cultural council: regrants to artist and african american visual arts collective
$116,880 spent34% of program spendingShowcase projects: sponsored events with a combination of approximately 50 or more visual and performing artists and art organizations through artz, roots and rhythm. The organization presented the following: harlem jazz and music festival; great day in harlem. These events included performance, educational and technology programs. The programs featured multiple visual craft. Service exhibitions and demonstrations.
$205,174 spent59% of program spendingADVOCACY: PROMOTES - Activity Code: 0 Grants Amount: 0 Expense Amount: 0 Revenue Amount: 0 ADVOCACY: HARLEM ARTIST ADVOCACY WEEK (HAAW) IS A PROGRAM THAT IS IN ITS 11TH YEAR WITH THE AIM OF PROMOTING AN ARRAY OF ISSUES OF PRESSING ISSUES TO THE ARTISTIC COMMUNITY. - Activity Code: 0 Grants Amount: 0 Expense Amount: 35586 Revenue Amount: 0
$35,586 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $348,251. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $14k to $162k (+1066%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 41% · 2018 44% · 2019 51% · 2020 33% · 2024 0% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Voza Rivers
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $14k → $145k.
From the IRS filings of HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE’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
HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 71% · 2022 86% · 2023 86% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $350k on record.
- Small Business Administration$350k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE?
- HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $715,775 to it, the largest being WEST HARLEM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($521,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $715,775 in grants to HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE?
- WEST HARLEM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $521,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing