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THE HARLEM CHAMBER PLAYERS INC

EIN 45-2160781 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$901,418
Expenses 2024
$620,086

Program services were 66.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A68
Classification
1000
Street
279 WEST 117TH STREET

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

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.

  • 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 | Cheswatyr Commissions Concert at The Forum November 22, 2024: Annual Bach Concert at Miller Theatre at Columbia University December 18, 2024: Wind Quintet Education Program at Brooklyn New School February 1, 2025: Music by Tillis and Montgomery at Newark School of the Arts February 9, 2025 Black History Month Concert at Brooklyn Public Library February 11, 2025 Black History Month Concert at the New York Institute for Special Education February 13, 2025 17th Annual Black History Month Celebration at the Schomburg Center March 21, 2025: Wind Quintet Education Program at PS 036 Margaret Douglas March 24, 2025: 4th Annual Women of the Movements Concert at The Lee C. Bollinger Forum at Columbia University March 27, 2025: Educational Concert with the students at St. Benedicts Preparatory School in Newark, NJ April 1, 2025: Educational Concert at Arts High School in Newark, NJ April 4, 2025: Amherst College Presents The Harlem Chamber Players with David Krakauer April 18 & 19, 2025: ETHEL & Friends Series at The Met Museum May 3, 2025: The 2nd Annual Uptown Downbeat Youth Showcase at St. Paul & St. Andrew May 7, 2025: An Evening with Tania Len - Fundraiser May 15, 2025: World Premieres of Latin Composers at Aaron Davis Hall at City College May 20, 2025: The Peggy Rockefeller Concert Series Presents The Harlem Chamber Players at July 20, 2025: Pre-Show At The Classical Theatre of Harlems Memnon All these programs were curated by the Artistic and Associate Directors, along with our Artistic Advisors and musicians.

    Expenses $409,381 · Revenue $79,710

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.

  • Sandra Billingslea

    Board President

    Total calculated
    $5,560
    From this org
    $5,560
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Nancy Hager

    Board Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Rodrigo Garcia de Leon Ferrer

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Amy Brown

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Amy Laskey

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Kamal Nesfield

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Liz Player

    Board Member/Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $95,390
    From this org
    $95,390
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kelly Chumo McAleer

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $32,201
    From this org
    $32,201
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

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
    $901,418
    Expenses
    $620,086
    Contributions
    $774,762
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $534,579
    Expenses
    $819,850
    Contributions
    $290,009
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $675,071
    Expenses
    $759,292
    Contributions
    $545,377
    Grants paid
    $0

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,097,850
    Expenses
    $750,635
    Assets (EOY)
    $775,635

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $492,124
    Expenses
    $414,477
    Assets (EOY)
    $431,676

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $404,844
    Expenses
    $147,589
    Assets (EOY)
    $351,893

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $191,199
    Expenses
    $176,835
    Assets (EOY)
    $90,266

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $165,241
    Expenses
    $142,667
    Assets (EOY)
    $74,702

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $142,191
    Expenses
    $124,093
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,128

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $147,521
    Expenses
    $130,771
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,030

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $108,275
    Expenses
    $119,324
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,480

  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $40,860
    Expenses
    $33,141
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,343

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.