New York · Nonprofit
The Harlem Chamber Players Inc
The Harlem Chamber Players Inc (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,795,353 to it, the largest being BAISLEY POWELL ELEBASH FUND XXXXX5009 ($400,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $901k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $681k
What The Harlem Chamber Players Inc does
Mission
The organization is an ethnically diverse collective of professional musicians dedicated to bringing high caliber, affordable and accessible live classical music to people in the Harlem community and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Cultural Music Performance The Harlem Chamber Players Inc., is an ethnically diverse collective of professional classical musicians dedicated to bringing high-caliber, affordable, accessible live music to people in the Harlem community and beyond. The Harlem Chamber Players also promote arts inclusion and equal access to the arts. THCP seeks to help build an audience for live classical music in general, through community and educational outreach, as well as through collaborations with Harlems other arts organizations, schools and cultural institutions. The Harlem Chamber Players bring live music to underserved audiences, promote shared community cultural engagement, and provide opportunities for classically trained musicians of color. The Harlem Chamber Players 2024-2025 season included the following concerts, educational programs, and other appearances: August 24, 2024: Final Fantasy at Town Hall August 30 & 31, 2024: ETHEL & Friends Series at The Met September 27, 2024: Iconic Classics | Season Opening Concert at Broadway Presbyterian Church October 24, 2024: Music by Tania Len, Frederick Tillis, and Trevor Weston at Harlem School of the Arts November 18, 2024: Composers Now |…
$409,381 spent$79,710 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $409,381.
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 $432k to $776k (+80%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 14% · 2022 9% · 2023 20% · 2024 22% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of The Harlem Chamber Players Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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.
Board chair
Sandra Billingslea
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $40k → $300k.
6 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 The Harlem Chamber Players Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
The Harlem Chamber Players Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
30% 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 The Harlem Chamber Players Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 34% · 2019 26% · 2020 35% · 2021 38% · 2022 58% · 2023 57% — 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
63% of The Harlem Chamber Players Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
66% of The Harlem Chamber Players 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. $170k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
The Harlem Chamber Players Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Harlem Chamber Players 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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 The Harlem Chamber Players 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 The Harlem Chamber Players Inc?
- The Harlem Chamber Players Inc (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,795,353 to it, the largest being BAISLEY POWELL ELEBASH FUND XXXXX5009 ($400,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Harlem Chamber Players Inc have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,795,353 in grants to The Harlem Chamber Players Inc, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Harlem Chamber Players Inc?
- BAISLEY POWELL ELEBASH FUND XXXXX5009 is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Harlem Chamber Players 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 31 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