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HARLEM GROWN INC

HARLEM GROWN INC (New York) receives grants from 150 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,816,899 to it, the largest being ANAHATA FOUNDATION XXXXX5004 ($1,755,000). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$5.1M
Funders on record
150
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
$5.6M
70/150 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 69%
01What it does

What Harlem Grown Inc does

Mission

To inspire youth to lead healthier, more ambitious lives through hands-on education and mentorship in urban farming, nutrition and sustainability

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Transform abandoned lots into urban farms and greenhouses, and use urban agriculture as a platform for in-school, out-of-school time, workforce development, and community engagement programming.

    $5,097,825 spentof which $214,455 as grants$344,513 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,097,825.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($938k)2020 Revenue 104 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 108 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 278 ($4.4M) Expenses 122 ($2.0M) Net assets 374 ($3.5M)2022 Revenue 322 ($5.2M) Expenses 164 ($2.6M) Net assets 645 ($6.1M)2023 Revenue 329 ($5.3M) Expenses 285 ($4.6M) Net assets 726 ($6.8M)2024 Revenue 322 ($5.1M) Expenses 392 ($6.3M) Net assets 601 ($5.6M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (322)Expenses (392)Net assets (601)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 2021 to 2022, from $3.6M to $6.1M (+71%).

$1.3M
$1.3M
$3.6M
$6.1M
$7.1M
$5.8M
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 3% · 2021 5% · 2023 10% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

88% of HARLEM GROWN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,303 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’19
$79k
’20
$2.5M
’21
$2.5M
’22
$700k
’23
−$1.1M
’24
9.0
months of
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

Joshua Strugatz

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed121217161713
Joined·+0+8+1+1+4
No longer listed·03208
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 60 funders, grant income rose $328k → $3.5M.

26 of 150 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 GROWN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 150 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 GROWN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

36% 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 GROWN INC.

13%
largest funder
34%
top three
~18
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 33% · 2019 26% · 2020 23% · 2021 16% · 2022 37% · 2023 14% — 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

38% of HARLEM GROWN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

HARLEM GROWN INC draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 25 states in all.

ME
WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
DE
NM
NC
AL
TX
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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

HARLEM GROWN INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−22% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding HARLEM GROWN INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $350k on record.

Federal$350k
grants $350kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$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.

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In New York

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 9%Fundraising 9%

Governance

12
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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 HARLEM GROWN INC?
HARLEM GROWN INC (New York) receives grants from 150 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,816,899 to it, the largest being ANAHATA FOUNDATION XXXXX5004 ($1,755,000). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HARLEM GROWN INC have?
IRS filings report 150 organizations giving $13,816,899 in grants to HARLEM GROWN INC, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HARLEM GROWN INC?
ANAHATA FOUNDATION XXXXX5004 is the largest funder on record, with $1,755,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HARLEM GROWN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 150 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