New York · Nonprofit
HARLEM STAGE INC
HARLEM STAGE INC (New York) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,077,545 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,475,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Harlem Stage Inc does
Mission
Harlem stage is a performing arts center that celebrates and perpetuates the unique and diverse artistic legacy of harlem and the indelible impression it has made on american culture. We provide opportunity, commissioning, and support for artists of color, make performances easily accessible to all audiences, and introduce children to the rich diversity, excitement, and inspiration of the performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Presenting/commissioningfounded in 1983, harlem stage is a dynamic hub of artistic experimentation, dedicated to empowering performing artists of the global majority at every stage of their journey. We serve as a beacon of artistic freedom for new york city, the cultural capital of the world. Guided by its north star-harlem is our home; the world is our stage-harlem stage is a platform where bold, fearless, and daring creation knows no bounds with 40 - 50 events annually. We are a stage to create fearlessly with new works; to present boldly through theater, dance, music, spoken word, film, and literature; to educate endlessly, engaging learners of all ages; to question relentlessly the ideas that shape the human experience; and to engineer equity in an artistic landscape that has long underinvested in performing artists and communities of the global majority.
$2,442,132 spent$81,582 earned by the program88% of program spendingEducationat harlem stage, we believe the arts have the transformative power to shape young lives, but also lifelong learners of all ages to ignite critical thinking and give voice to underrepresented and disadvantaged youth and community members from nyc and beyond. Through free student-only matinees, in-school residencies, immersive writing and performance workshops, we bring middle school, high school, and college and university students of all ages into direct contact with professional artists and performers. Our program sparks the courage to confront tough, real-world topics-racial equity, environmental justice, immigration, gender equality, conflict zones, and the rights of the lgbtq+ communities, and more - engaging students in stories that amplify the power of art to enact real social change.
$346,424 spent12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,788,556.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.2M to $6.5M (+53%).
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 20% · 2019 12% · 2020 16% · 2021 16% · 2022 9% · 2023 12% · 2024 6% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of HARLEM STAGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Indira Etwaroo
CEO and artistic director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $666k → $2.4M.
10 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 STAGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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 STAGE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 36% · 2019 26% · 2020 33% · 2021 30% · 2022 37% · 2023 32% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of HARLEM STAGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
93% of HARLEM STAGE 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. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 STAGE INC's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 35 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 390 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HARLEM STAGE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $260k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$260k
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 STAGE 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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The City College Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HARLEM STAGE 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 STAGE INC?
- HARLEM STAGE INC (New York) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,077,545 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,475,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HARLEM STAGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $14,077,545 in grants to HARLEM STAGE INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARLEM STAGE INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,475,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARLEM STAGE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 80 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