New York · Nonprofit
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc (New York) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,478,076 to it, the largest being CLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATION ($7,025,000). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 134
- Grants received
- $41M
- Net assets
- $17M
What West Harlem Environmental Action Inc does
Mission
To build healty communities by ensuring that people of color and/or low income residents participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Environmental Justice Advocacy Government Accountability. WE ACT envisions a community that has informed and engaged residents who participate fully in decision making on key issues that impact their health and community
$6,515,468 spent56% of program spendingEnvironmental Health Community Based Research-To increase communiy environmental health through comunity based participatory research and evidence based campaigns
$2,928,206 spent25% of program spendingSustainable Development- To advacate with communities for strong and equal environmental protection
$1,199,503 spent10% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 893,181, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Movement Building
$893,181 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,536,358.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $4.5M to $17M (+274%).
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 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 3% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of West Harlem Environmental Action Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Jeff Jones
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $7.1M.
26 of 134 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 West Harlem Environmental Action Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 134 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
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
57% 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 West Harlem Environmental Action Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 40% · 2019 22% · 2020 23% · 2021 23% · 2022 22% · 2023 34% — 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
46% of West Harlem Environmental Action Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 330 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 330 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding West Harlem Environmental Action Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.3M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$11.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$250k
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 West Harlem Environmental Action 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- We Act 4 Change Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for West Harlem Environmental Action 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 West Harlem Environmental Action Inc?
- West Harlem Environmental Action Inc (New York) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,478,076 to it, the largest being CLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATION ($7,025,000). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does West Harlem Environmental Action Inc have?
- IRS filings report 134 organizations giving $41,478,076 in grants to West Harlem Environmental Action Inc, 69 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of West Harlem Environmental Action Inc?
- CLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,025,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like West Harlem Environmental Action 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 134 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