New York · Nonprofit
HARLEM FILM HOUSE
HARLEM FILM HOUSE (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,549 to it, the largest being Sundance Institute ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HARLEM FILM HOUSE has grown faster than half of the 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- West Harlem Development Corporationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inclocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
9% of HARLEM FILM HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $17k → $11.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 FILM HOUSE’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 FILM HOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 FILM HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 61% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
HARLEM FILM HOUSE draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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.
- West Harlem Development Corporationshared funderslocalportfolio matchNY · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · funds 154 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 6 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inclocalportfolio matchNY · funds 256 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Perspective Media Initiatives Incshared fundersNY · backs 16 organizations that share your funders
- Participant Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiespace Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation Co Kelley Drye & Warren LLPportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Piece by Piece Productions Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust Co Herrick Feinstein LLPportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Flushing Council on Culture and the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicken & Egg Films Incshared fundersNY · backs 12 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.
Government funding HARLEM FILM HOUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- Department of State$25k
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 FILM HOUSE
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.
Public support
9%
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 FILM HOUSE: 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 FILM HOUSE?
- HARLEM FILM HOUSE (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,549 to it, the largest being Sundance Institute ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HARLEM FILM HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $26,549 in grants to HARLEM FILM HOUSE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARLEM FILM HOUSE?
- Sundance Institute is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARLEM FILM HOUSE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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