New York · Nonprofit
HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES
HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $649,527 to it, the largest being EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC ($346,833). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $650k
- Net assets
- $-1257183
What Harlem Dowling West Side Center for Children & Family Services does
Mission
Harlem dowling - west side center for children and family services works to develop confidence, resilience, academic skills and adult/family support that enables the children we serve to become responsible, self-sufficient adults.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Family support and community based programs. Harlem dowling-west side center family support programs works to ensure child well-being by connecting children and their families to safety net services and resources in the community. The agency provides family preservation, evidence-based parenting programs, after school and summer camp services, groups, support for the elderly residents of the community, financial support to meet concrete needs, and operates an emergency food pantry. Our programs are delivered in a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment. We serve more than 450 children daily in after school services, 250 children in summer camp, 250 families in our family support programs, and prepare more than 11,000 emergency food packages each year.
$4,020,840 spent$701,736 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,020,840.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.0M to $6.7M (+241%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 11% · 2022 91% · 2023 58% · 2024 84% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Karen Dixon
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $85k → $56k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 funders by total. 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 DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 39% · 2021 59% · 2022 80% · 2023 56% — 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
60% of HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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
100% of HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES'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. $46k 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.
Against its field
HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES's revenue grew 45% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES?
- HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $649,527 to it, the largest being EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC ($346,833). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $649,527 in grants to HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES?
- EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC is the largest funder on record, with $346,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES 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 11 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