New York · Nonprofit
HARLEM NEEDLE ARTS INC
HARLEM NEEDLE ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,806 to it, the largest being LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ($34,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $221k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $-7328
What Harlem Needle Arts Inc does
Mission
Preserve the Narrative of Needle Arts
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Collaborated with DOE to host five months of art workshops and 38 weekly creative space gatherings. Provided art and cultural programming for 2 Harlem Senior Centers and a third Center on 23rd Street.
$84,000 spent44% of program spendingMaintained the donated gallery storefront and creative space for workshops, exhibits, residencies, studio tours and showcases. Produced info video. Participated in the Painted Threads Festival ln Marcus Garvey Park Co-Curated public art exhibit in Jefferson Park - NLawrence
$75,000 spent40% of program spendingHosted Business of Textile Art conference with 10 virtual sessions; provided individual technical support to artists. Residencies and provided workspace facility for artists.
$30,803 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $189,803.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $28k to $60k (+114%).
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: 2023 45% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HARLEM NEEDLE ARTS INC’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. 3 of the last 7 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
Michelle Bishop
Founder and executive director
Board chair
Valerie Salley Washington
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $5k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 NEEDLE ARTS 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 NEEDLE ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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 NEEDLE ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 45% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
87% of HARLEM NEEDLE ARTS 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. $19k 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.
Against its field
HARLEM NEEDLE ARTS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding HARLEM NEEDLE ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
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 NEEDLE ARTS INC
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
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 NEEDLE ARTS 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HARLEM NEEDLE ARTS INC?
- HARLEM NEEDLE ARTS INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,806 to it, the largest being LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ($34,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HARLEM NEEDLE ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $57,806 in grants to HARLEM NEEDLE ARTS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARLEM NEEDLE ARTS INC?
- LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $34,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARLEM NEEDLE ARTS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 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