New York · Nonprofit
Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc
Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $298,500 to it, the largest being WEST HARLEM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($157,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,812 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,812 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Workforce Development Corporationlocalportfolio match
- Expanded Schools Incshared funders
- The New York Urban League Incportfolio match
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.
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 58% · 2018 53% · 2019 43% · 2020 29% · 2021 33% · 2022 48% · 2023 32% · 2024 30% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $63k → $60k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $750k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Commonwealth Local Development Corp CLDC). These are real filings, and they are not money Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Harlem Commonwealth Council 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
Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
66% 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 Commonwealth Council Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 58% — 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
66% of Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc'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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Workforce Development Corporationlocalportfolio matchNY · funds 132 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Expanded Schools Incshared fundersNY · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- The New York Urban League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abny Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bronx Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Capital One Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association for Neighborhood & Housing Developmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jobsfirstnycportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Community Reinvestment Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Women's Business Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Clark Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
25% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Harlem Entrepreneurial Fund LLC · disregarded
- 215 Acacia LLC · disregarded
- Commonwealth Local Development Corp · exempt
- Commonwealth Holding Co Inc · corp_trust
- Commonwealth Industrial Parks Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc?
- Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $298,500 to it, the largest being WEST HARLEM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($157,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $298,500 in grants to Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc?
- WEST HARLEM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $157,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc 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.
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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing