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WEST HARLEM ARTS ALLIANCE INC

EIN 87-2925731 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$198,595
Expenses 2024
$190,685

Program services were 85.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A01
Classification
1230
Street
423 W 127TH ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Primary exempt purpose

West Harlem Arts Alliance (WHAA) is an arts service organization whose mission is to professionally resource and nurture the artists and arts organizations based in and serving West Harlem and facilitating and developing collaborations through partnerships with local business, educational, civic, and cultural organizations to support the arts in West Harlem.

  • Arts Exhibition Series - West Harlem, Where Art Lives - Celebrating and featuring 65 West Harlem artists and their works in over two exhibitions, publicly available to community residents of more than 9,000 area viewers and attendees

    Expenses $76,274 · Grants $75,000

  • Summer Jazz Fest at Montefiore Park - Live outdoor jazz concerts over 18 dates from June to October for the public, and benefiting a total West Harlem audience of 2,528 attendees

    Expenses $47,671 · Grants $45,000

  • Educational Workshops & Web Based Services for Artists- Three technical assistance in-person seminars and convenings for West Harlem artists in grant preparation, mission articulation and grant writing to a total of 155 attendees, and our online, web-based services, including the "A-list", or Artist Directory and our West Harlem "Arts Calendar" serving 8,424 artists and area event seekers.

    Expenses $38,137 · Grants $35,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Michael Palma

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $83,110
    Compensation
    $68,750
    Benefit plans
    $14,360
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jerry Salama

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ana Ofelia Rodgriguez

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Julio Batista

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charles E Williams III

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marco Shalma

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wayne A Benjamin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $198,595
    Expenses
    $190,685
    Contributions
    $198,595
    Grants paid
    not reported

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2023

Tax period
1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023
Principal officer
Michael Palma
Mailing address
423 W 127TH STNEW YORK NY 10027
Website
www.whaanyc.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.