Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$7,741,163

Total expenses

$8,533,273

Contributions and grants received

$7,303,775

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$62,630

Other revenue

$374,758

Total assets, end of year

$3,114,133

Total liabilities, end of year

$245,002

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$2,869,131

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$5,907,325

Management and general expenses

$1,632,030

Fundraising expenses

$993,918

Program service expenses (Part III)

$5,907,325

Program services were 69.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• THE CLASS OF 2025 SAW A COHORT OF 61 STUDENTS GRADUATE AS HARLEM LACROSSE STUDENT-ATHLETES. THESE STUDENTS BENEFITED FROM UP TO SEVEN YEARS OF ATHLETIC, ACADEMIC, AND SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL ENRICHMENT SUPPORTED BY A TRUSTING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE STUDENT, THEIR FAMILY, AND HARLEM LACROSSE. OUTCOMES FOR THIS COHORT ARE COMPELLING, WITH 100% PURSUING POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION AND EARNING A COLLECTIVE $1.6MM ANNUALLY TO AID IN THEIR PERSISTENCE. THESE GRADUATES JOIN A GROWING AN IMPRESSIVE HARLEM LACROSSE ALUMNI NETWORK THAT IS STARTING TO FIVE BACK TO THE FUTURE GENERATIONS OF HL STUDENTS.ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS:HALREM LACROSSE PARTICPANTS ARE STUDENT-ATHLETES, PURSUING SUCCESS ON AND OFF THE FIELD. THIS SCHOOL YEAR, PARTICIPANTS CONTINUED TO DEMONSTRATE ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND GROWTH. IN A POST-COVID WORLD, SCHOOLS ARE FINDING CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM RATES TO BE A SIGNIFICANT BARROER TO LEARNING WITH A 28% CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM RATE NATIONALLY. HARLEM LACROSSE IS SUPPORTING STUDENT-ATHLETES IN ADDRESSING CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM. PARTICIPANTS WHO WERE CHRONICALLY ABSENT THE YEAR PRIOR ATTENDED AN AVERAGE OF SIX MORE DAYS OF SCHOOL IN 2024. STUDENT-ATHLETES' FAMILIES SHARED THAT BEING PART OF HL IMPROVED ACADEMIC MOTIVATION (90%) AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE (85%) IN THE CLASSROOM. HL PARTICIPANTS AVERAGED AN 80.8% GPA AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, STUDENTS WHO AVERAGED BELOW A 70% GPA LAST SCHOOL YEAR, SHOWED AN IMPROVEMENT OF 15% IN THEIR GPA THIS SCHOOL YEAR. STUDENTS WHO STRUGGLED THE PRIOR ACADEMIC YEAR ACHIEVED THE LARGEST INCREASES IN THEIR GPA THIS YEAR.ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS:LACROSSE IS AT THE CORE OF EVERYTHING WE DO. OUR COMMITMENT TO BUILDING LACROSSE COMPETENCY HAS ENABLED US TO FIELD COMPETITIVE BOYS AND GIRL'S NATIONAL TEAMS THAT PROUDLY FEATURE ELITE PLAYERS FROM ALL FIVE HARLEM LACROSSE REGIONS}}}A TESTAMENT TO THE ATHLETIC GROWTH PLAYERS EXPERIENCE WITHIN OUR PROGRAM. ACROSS THE BOARD THIS YEAR, STUDENT-ATHLETES SAW TANGIBLE GROWTH IN THEIR PHYSICAL FITNESS. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, WE MEASURED THE IMPACT OF OUR ATHLETIC PROGRAMMING. THE PACER TEST IS A MAXIMAL EXERCISE TEST ADMINISTERED AS A BACK-AND-FORTH SHUTTLE RUN. WITH PROGRESSIVE INCREASES IN PACE, CHILDREN COMPLETE AS MANY LAPS AS POSSIBLE. LAP SCORES ARE INTERPRETED USING HEALTHY FITNESS ZONE MINIMUM STANDARDS. A SCORE 100% INDICATES A CHILD IS IN THE HEALTHY FITNESS ZONE. YOUTH IN THE HFZ ARE LESS LIKELY TO DEVELOP METABOLIC SYNDROME, DECREASING THEIR RISK FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND DIABETES. THE NUMBERS TELL A COMPELLING STORY: OUR PARTICIPANTS' HFZ SCORES INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY BY AN AVERAGE OF 29.8 PERCENTAGE POINTS OVER THE 2023-24 SCHOOL YEAR. THE MOST SIZABLE IMPROVEMENTS CAME FROM THOSE STARTING WITH LOWER FITNESS LEVELS (HFZ<100), DEMONSTRATING OUR PROGRAM'S PROFOUND IMPACT ON VULNERABLE CHILDREN WITH REMARKABLE STATISTICAL CONFIDENCE.SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL GROWTH:A FOUNDATION OF THE HARLEM LACROSSE MODEL IS A FOCUS ON SUPPORTING YOUTH TO DEVELOP CRITICAL SOCIAL EMOTIONAL SKILLS AND MINDSETS THAT HELP THEM TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS. THIS YEAR, 94% OF HL STUDENTS GREW IN AT LEAST ONE OF OUR FIVE CORE AREAS OF SOCIAL EMOTIONAL GROWTH. 94% OF FAMILIES REPORTED THAT THEIR CHILDREN IMPROVED RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR PEERS AND 87% OF FAMILIES REPORTED THAT THEIR CHILD HAD IMPROVED RELATIONSHIPS WITH ADULTS AS A RESULT OF HARLEM LACROSSE. FURTHERMORE, 94% OF FAMILIES AND 92% OF SCHOOL PARTNERS REPORTED THAT HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP THEIR CHILD DEVELOPED A GROWTH MINDSET AS A RESULT OF HARLEM LACROSSE. HARLEM LACROSSE PLAYS A CRITICAL ROLE IN FORGING MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE LIVES OF PARTICIPANTS AND BUILDING SOFT SKILLS IN THE CLASSROOM, ON THE FIELD, AND IN THE COMMUNITY.

  Expenses $5,907,325

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

4 May 2026

IRS schema version

2024v5.5

Source object

202601969349300600

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