New York · Nonprofit
ART OF BROOKLYN FESTIVAL
ART OF BROOKLYN FESTIVAL (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $65 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($65). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $97k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $65
- Net assets
- $7k
What Art of Brooklyn Festival does
Mission
The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is an annual event that brings Brooklyns celebrated film and media makers together with their peers across the country and around the world. AoBFF is a filmmaker-focused event, platform and showcase for exciting emerging creators and established voices. We partner with film distributors and media organizations, host world-class talkbacks, create innovative programming for networking and skill building, and screen in independent theaters for enthusiastic audiences across Brooklyn. Founded by working artists in 2011, 37 festival premieres have gotten theatrical distribution to date and one became an HBO series. We have held events in 24 different venues in 13 neighborhoods across Brooklyn (so far,) partnering with local businesses and organizations to reach the widest possible audience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We invited filmmakers Eden Martinez to curate Narrative Shorts, Daniel Feighery to curate Docs and Derek Garcia for Narrative Features. We held film screenings at AbleCine in Industry City Brooklyn, Film Noir Cinema, 100 Sutton event space, and Stuart Cinema (all in Greenpoint Brooklyn). We also produced free outdoor screenings on Fulton Street Brooklyn. We created over 60 videos (filmmaker, interviews, promotional trailers) for social media. We screened 55 new films in person for diverse audiences from NYC and beyond, and also streamed them online for audiences across the US using the Eventive Virtual Festival Platform. We held Screenplay Competitions with industry prizes including seminars from Roadmap Writers, consultations with film producers, and AoBFF passes.
$96,500 spentof which $48,155 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,500.
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 2024 to 2025, from $921 to $7k (+645%).
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: 2020 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of ART OF BROOKLYN FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Joseph Shahadi
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $12 → $24.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ART OF BROOKLYN FESTIVAL’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ART OF BROOKLYN FESTIVAL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
ART OF BROOKLYN FESTIVAL has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ART OF BROOKLYN FESTIVAL
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
96%
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 ART OF BROOKLYN FESTIVAL: 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 ART OF BROOKLYN FESTIVAL?
- ART OF BROOKLYN FESTIVAL (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $65 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($65). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ART OF BROOKLYN FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $65 in grants to ART OF BROOKLYN FESTIVAL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ART OF BROOKLYN FESTIVAL?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ART OF BROOKLYN FESTIVAL 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 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing