Harlem Dowling Westside CTR For Children & Family Services

City-funded organization

Harlem Dowling-West Side Center for Children & Family Services is a nonprofit child welfare agency; its own website traces its founding to 1836 as the Association for the Benefit of Colored Children in the State of New York, describing itself as among the first US charitable institutions serving children of color, and lists its headquarters at 2139 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in Harlem. It says it now provides family preservation and prevention services, support for children with developmental disabilities, after-school programming, and an emergency food pantry. Its city contracts, chiefly Prevention Services and General Preventive Services awards with the Administration for Children's Services, along with a Department of Youth and Community Development COMPASS award and a Department for the Aging emergency food pantry contract, total $89 million across 50 registered awards since 2008; 68% of that contract value ($60 million across 43 contracts) was awarded without a fresh competitive bid.

Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$38,132,607 · 5 contracts
Awarded all-time
$110,687,782 · 51 since 2008, incl. expired
Paid to date
$63,103,186
Won without a fresh bid
54% of contract value · $60,088,158 · 43 contracts
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$182,762 · Karen Dixon, Executive Director

Holds contracts at

City contracts

Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).

Officer & key-staff pay

Reportable compensation from this organization's IRS Form 990 (Part VII), latest available filing (FY2023). Includes pay from related organizations where reported; an annual figure, not a running total. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.

Officer pay over time

Total officer pay changed +27% from FY2020 to FY2023. Top-officer reportable compensation by year (org-paid only), with each year's share of total revenue. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer 990 filings.

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