New York · Nonprofit
WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE INCORPORATED
WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE INCORPORATED (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $822,675 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($625,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $823k
- Net assets
- $18k
What While We Are Still Here Incorporated does
Mission
While we are still here (wwsh) will educate, enshrine and preserve the extraordinary legacy of harlem as an influential incubator that was vital to the intellectual, cultural, social and political advancements of the harlem community as well as the african diaspora.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
While We Are Still Here presented various programs and developed several projects over this period. TO SUPPORT CAPACITY BUILDING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE PROGRAMMING THAT WORKS TO AMPLIFY AND PREVENT THE ERASURE OF HARLEM'S DISTINCT HISTORY.
$243,448 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $243,448.
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 2022 to 2023, from $69k to $595k (+758%).
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 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $425k.
From the IRS filings of WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE INCORPORATED’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
WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 66% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 100% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
91% of WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE INCORPORATED'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. 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
WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE INCORPORATED has grown faster than half of the 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$200k
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 WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE INCORPORATED
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.
Public support
94%
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 WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE INCORPORATED: 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 WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE INCORPORATED?
- WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE INCORPORATED (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $822,675 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($625,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $822,675 in grants to WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE INCORPORATED, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE INCORPORATED?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHILE WE ARE STILL HERE INCORPORATED 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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