New York · Nonprofit
PALANTE HARLEM INC
PALANTE HARLEM INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,880 to it, the largest being NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ($190,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $686k
- Net assets
- $593k
What Palante Harlem Inc does
Mission
To reduce poverty and advocate for safe housing by organizing, educating and empowering residents.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tenant Organizing and Leadership Development: Helps residents to organize formal tenant associations and empower community residents to hold landlords accountable.
$132,583 spent11% of program spendingLegal, Mediation and Referrals: Provides direct legal and mediation assistance by acting as a tenant or tenant association representative.
$655,535 spent56% of program spendingHomeownership: Provides technical assistance and training to tenant associations enrolled in the Tenant Interim Lease (TIL) apartment purchase program, Affordable Neighborhood Cooperative Program (ANCP). We also assist and organize shareholders living in low income Housing Development Fund Corporations (HDFC).
$75,030 spent6% of program spendingHomeless Prevention: A community-based intervention program with a bottom-up approach that combats illegal affordable housing stock. The program aims to identify tenants at risk of homeless; address their critical need to remain in their homes, and ensure that their homes are safe and affordable.
$173,199 spent15% of program spendingBodega Fridays: Bodega Friday is a weekly food program that distributes high-quality groceries and expand essential supplies to Harlem residents in an effort to improve access to nutritious food and economic security. The program helps address the root causes of food insecurity, like the high cost of living and lack of access to affordable housing.
$81,933 spent7% of program spendingYouth (Stand & Deliver): Supports the development of academic and social skills of the youth residing in our Community.
$47,810 spent4% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,166,090.
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 2023 to 2024, from $976k to $1.6M (+60%).
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 51% · 2018 42% · 2019 29% · 2020 21% · 2021 74% · 2022 63% · 2023 56% · 2024 58% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PALANTE HARLEM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Elsia Vasquez
Executive Director
Board chair
Luisa Rodriguez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $102k → $13k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 PALANTE HARLEM 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
PALANTE HARLEM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 PALANTE HARLEM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 72% · 2019 91% · 2020 56% · 2021 58% · 2022 48% · 2023 63% — 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
22% of PALANTE HARLEM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
90% of PALANTE HARLEM 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. $89k 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
PALANTE HARLEM INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PALANTE HARLEM 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PALANTE HARLEM INC?
- PALANTE HARLEM INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,880 to it, the largest being NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ($190,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PALANTE HARLEM INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $685,880 in grants to PALANTE HARLEM INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PALANTE HARLEM INC?
- NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PALANTE HARLEM 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 12 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